lactodifucotetraose

English

Noun

lactodifucotetraose (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry) An oligosaccharide composed of lactose with two added fucose moieties
   • 2016 January 23, “Novel α-L-Fucosidases from a Soil Metagenome for Production of Fucosylated Human Milk Oligosaccharides”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Three of the more abundant fucosylated HMOs, 2’-fucosyllactose (2’-FL), 3-fucosyllactose (3-FL) and lactodifucotetraose have been shown to exhibit a prebiotic effect [4 ].