Do carbohydrates have amino groups?
2 Answers
No
Explanation:
Amino acids have amine
Hope this helps!
Carbohydrates can have amino groups - but they generally have different functions that the regular "sugars" we think of.
Explanation:
Simple carbohydrates don't. But amino sugars do. These are the sugars that make up posttranslational modification glycosylation groups. Glucosamine, N-Acteyl Glucosamine, Galactosamine. These sugars show up on the cell surface of most cells.
Amino groups aren't on starch, cellulose, ect, but they are extisinively used in cell-surface glycosylations and cell-cell receptor sites.
In my biochemistry class, i tell students, "any time two cells interact, the interaction is almost always mediated by cell-surface sugars" - these sugars almost always have amino groups.
So, yeah, they have them.