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Figure 12

From: Statistical analysis of the Bacterial Carbohydrate Structure Data Base (BCSDB): Characteristics and diversity of bacterial carbohydrates in comparison with mammalian glycans

Figure 12

Glycosidic linkages in bacterial carbohydrates. Frequency distribution of specific disaccharide linkages in bacterial carbohydrates. Plotted circle areas represent the relative frequencies for disaccharides formed from the 15 most common donors (children) and 15 most common acceptors (parents) in a defined glycosidic linkage (color code in legend) for bacterial oligomers (A) or polymers (B). The areas of the circles are proportional to the relative abundances of specific disaccharide pairs, normalized to the total number of disaccharide pairs. The linkage codes and plotting offsets are used as in Fig. 12. The lower left corner of each diagram is plotted at the right with rescaling for better visualization.

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