polymannuronic en · ADJ
Etymology
From poly- + mannuronic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Composed of a polymer of mannuronic acid
While AlgE4 can produce polyalternating structures from polymannuronic alginates, AlgE6 can epimerize both polymannuronic and polyalternating structures to form polyguluronic alginates.
2015 October 24, “Energy Landscape of Alginate-Epimerase Interactions Assessed by Optical Tweezers and Atomic Force Microscopy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: