[The chemical reactions and pathways involving nucleotide-sugars, any nucleotide in which the distal phosphoric residue of a nucleoside 5'-diphosphate is in glycosidic linkage with a monosaccharide or monosaccharide derivative. [ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"] ( GO )]
UMLS (NCI) C1158689Nucleotide Sugars Metabolism Pathway