noun
- A glycoside in which the sugar component is a furanose (a five-membered ring form of a monosaccharide).
Usage: chemistry; biochemistry; technical term
Examples
- Arabinofuranoside is a furanoside derived from the sugar arabinose.
- The cell wall of certain bacteria contains furanose-based furannosides.
- Nucleosides are furannosides where the sugar is ribose or deoxyribose in furanose form.
- Researchers studied the furanoside structure to understand carbohydrate metabolism.
- The furanoside linkage differs from the more common pyranoside linkage found in many disaccharides.