Polysaccharides are abundant in nature and found in nearly every living organism. They can function as storage polysaccharides, such as starch in plants and glycogen in animals, structural elements in the cell walls of bacteria and plants and skeletal elements in arthropods. They can also be found linked to proteins and lipids, and have been implicated in cell–cell recognition and molecular targeting.
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