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disaccharide

complex sugar, formed when two monosaccharides are joined by glycosidic linkage
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Summary

disaccharide is a structural class of chemical entities[1]. disaccharide ranks in the top 10% of structural class of chemical entities entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,160 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Follows: monosaccharide[3]
  • Followed by: trisaccharide[4]
  • Subclass of: oligosaccharide[5], carbohydrate[6]
  • Part of: disaccharide binding[7], disaccharide metabolic process[8], disaccharide biosynthetic process[9], disaccharide catabolic process[10], cellular response to disaccharide stimulus[11], disaccharide transmembrane transporter activity[12], disaccharide transport[13], response to disaccharide[14]
  • Commons category: Disaccharides[15]
  • Has part(s): monosaccharide[16], glycosidic bond[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Disaccharides[18]

Why It Matters

disaccharide has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] disaccharide is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds and Reactive Intermediates Based on Structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995). wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds and Reactive Intermediates Based on Structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995). wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds and Reactive Intermediates Based on Structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995). wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → disaccharide binding, disaccharide metabolic process, disaccharide biosynthetic process +5
    Instance of → —
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 1958111
    Aliases → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 24522, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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