Structures for the ABO(H) Blood Groups Which Textbook Is Correct?

摘要

When teaching about carbohydrates from biochemistry textbooks and some organic chemistry textbooks, one invariably encounters the ABO(H) blood group. With the importance and interest generated from the considerable research on the ABO(H) blood group, one assumes that college textbooks should contain the correct structures for each of the A, B, and O(H) antigens. However, after students in a first-semester biochemistry class were asked to draw the structures for the ABO(H) blood group for a discussion of carbohydrates, one student raised the question, "Why are the structures of the ABO(H) blood group different in my biochemistry textbook (1) from those in my organic chemistry textbook (2)V.