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What is a galactan?

What is a galactan? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) A polysaccharide consisting of many galactose residues.
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The function of the arabinan and galactan side-chains of pectin remains unknown.
The higher degradability of arabinan compared to galactan in the network is due to the architecture in CRP involving more accessible arabinan than galactan.
The arabinan side-chains were in general more mobile than the galactans, but the long galactan side-chains of potato pectin showed high mobility.
Contrary to OAAO, acid extraction condition reduce the length of rhamnogalacturonan I side chains by depolymerising arabinan and galactan polymers.

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