Saccharides is a general term for polyhydroxy (two or more) aldehyde or ketone compounds, and their derivatives or polymers, including sugars, starch, and cellulose, widely distributed in nature. Saccharides and their derivatives play key roles in the immune system, fertilization, preventing pathogenesis, blood clotting, and development, such as Lentinan, a polysaccharide derived from the vegetative parts of the edible Japanese shiitake mushroom, boosting humoral antitumor immunity; Astragalus polysaccharide (APS) enhancing the immune organ index, promoting the proliferation of immune cells, stimulating the release of cytokines, and affecting the secretion of immunoglobulin and conduction of immune signals.

Glycosides are a wide variety of naturally occurring substances in which a sugar group is bonded through its anomeric carbon to another group of a non-sugar via a glycosidic bond. Many glycosides occur in plants, often as flower and fruit pigments; for example, anthocyanins. Glycosides play numerous important roles in living organisms, such as Gastrodin exhibits a neuroprotective effect (used in the treatment of dizziness, paralysis, epilepsy, stroke and dementia); Notoginsenoside exhibits anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidative and anti-apoptotic properties.; cardiac glycoside is used in the treatment of mild to moderate heart failure and for ventricular response rate control in chronic atrial fibrillation; Flavonoid glycosides exhibit anti-inflammatory, relieving cough and asthma, and dilating coronary artery effects, etc.

TargetMol’s Saccharide and Glycoside Natural Product Library collects 595 saccharides and glycosides, such as Ginsenosides, Neohesperidin, Saikosaponin, Salidroside, Notoginsenoside, cardiac glycoside, Flavonoid glycosides, etc.