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Glycoconjugates
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Glycoconjugate.
In molecular biology and biochemistry, glycoconjugates are a subfamily for carbohydrates where saccharides are covalently linked with proteins, peptides, lipids. Glycoconjugates are formed in processes termed glycosylation. Glycoconjugates are involved in cell–cell interaction, including cell–cell recognition; in cell–matrix interactions; and in detoxification processes.