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Studies have shown that various S-linked disaccharides, such as thiolactose, thiomaltose, thiocellobiose, and glycosyldisulfides, display increased conformational flexibility compared to their natural analogs, and varying degrees of inhibition towards targeted enzymes. Contrary to these findings, it found that a series of α1-3- and α1-6-linked thiooligomannosides, derived from the natural substrate, resulted in complete loss of binding when tested against the enzyme Golgi α-mannosidase II. Glycosidases have proven unable to hydrolyze thioglycosides, hypothetically due to the poor hydrogen bonding ability of the sulfur atom, thus hampering the acidic cleavage of S,O-acetals. This effect is however not universal, and O- and S-linked N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) residues have been shown to undergo cleavage with comparable efficiencies in the presence of a human O-GlcNAcase.