CHEBI:37166 - xylan

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ChEBI Name xylan ChEBI ID CHEBI:37166 Definition Polysaccharides composed of xylose residues. Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team. Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:27335, CHEBI:10077 Wikipedia License Xylan (; ) (CAS number: 9014-63-5) is a type of hemicellulose, a polysaccharide consisting mainly of xylose residues. It is found in plants, in the secondary cell walls of dicots and all cell walls of grasses. Xylan is the third most abundant polysaccharide on Earth, after cellulose and chitin. Read full article at Wikipedia Formulae (C5H7O4R)n.(C5H8O4)n (C5H8O4)n.(C5H7O4R)n ChEBI Ontology Outgoing xylan (CHEBI:37166) is a hemicellulose (CHEBI:61266) xylan (CHEBI:37166) is a homopolysaccharide (CHEBI:37164) Incoming xylan derivative (CHEBI:71299) has functional parent xylan (CHEBI:37166) (1→3)-β-D-xylan (CHEBI:18924) is a xylan (CHEBI:37166) (1→4)-β-D-xylan (CHEBI:15447) is a xylan (CHEBI:37166) arabinoxylans (CHEBI:22603) is a xylan (CHEBI:37166) glucuronoarabinoxylans (CHEBI:24300) is a xylan (CHEBI:37166) glucuronoxylan (CHEBI:60938) is a xylan (CHEBI:37166) IUPAC Name xylan Synonyms Sources (1,4-beta-D-Xylan)n KEGG COMPOUND (1,4-beta-D-Xylan)n+1 KEGG COMPOUND Xylan KEGG COMPOUND xylans ChEBI Manual Xrefs Databases C00707 KEGG COMPOUND C02352 KEGG COMPOUND FDB001133 FooDB G10512 KEGG GLYCAN HMDB0301774 HMDB Xylan Wikipedia Xylans MetaCyc View more database links Registry Numbers Types Sources 9014-63-5 CAS Registry Number KEGG COMPOUND 9014-63-5 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus Citations Last Modified 02 March 2022