disaccharide Chem.
(daɪˈsækəraɪd)
Also † -id.
[f. di-2 2 + saccharide.]
Any sugar that consists of two monosaccharide residues linked together.
| 1892 [see biose]. 1905 E. F. Armstrong in Proc. R. Soc. B. LXXVI. 592 The enzymes which are capable of inducing the hydrolysis of disaccharides or bioses. 1938 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) II. 298/1 The formulæ of the disaccharides have undergone revision on the basis of the accepted pyranose formula for glucose. 1954 Ibid. XI. 176/1 Disaccharides..can be split by acid hydrolysis or enzymes into their constituent hexose monosaccharides. 1970 R. W. McGilvery Biochem. xxvi. 634 The infant living on the milk produced by his mother's mammary glands generates approximately 60 per cent of his ATP by oxidizing the fat in the milk and 40 per cent by oxidizing the disaccharide, lactose. |