Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
d-Ribulose is the diastereomer of d-xylulose. Ribulose sugars are composed in the pentose phosphate pathway from arabinose. [1] They are important in the formation of many bioactive substances. For example, d-ribulose is an intermediate in the fungal pathway for d-arabitol production. Also, as the 1,5-bisphosphate, d-ribulose combines with ...
L-Ribose Fischer Projection. Ribose is a simple sugar and carbohydrate with molecular formula C 5 H 10 O 5 and the linear-form composition H−(C=O)−(CHOH) 4 −H. The naturally occurring form, d-ribose, is a component of the ribonucleotides from which RNA is built, and so this compound is necessary for coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes.
Haworth projection of the structures for α-D-glucopyranose and α-L-glucopyranose. In chemistry, a Haworth projection is a common way of writing a structural formula to represent the cyclic structure of monosaccharides with a simple three-dimensional perspective.
Haworth drew the ring as a flat hexagon with groups above and below the plane of the ring – the Haworth projection. [ 3 ] A further refinement to the conformation of pyranose rings came when Sponsler and Dore (1926) realized that Sachse's mathematical treatment of six-membered rings could be applied to their X-ray structure of cellulose . [ 3 ]
Allulose, also known by its systematic name D-ribo-2-hexulose as well as by the name D-psicose, is a monosaccharide and a ketohexose. [ 2 ] [ 11 ] It is a C3 epimer of fructose . [ 2 ] Fructose can be converted to allulose by the enzymes D -tagatose 3-epimerase ( EC 5.1.3.31 ) and/or D -psicose 3-epimerase ( EC 5.1.3.30 ), which has allowed for ...
The stereochemical structure of a cyclic monosaccharide can be represented in a Haworth projection. In this diagram, the α-isomer for the pyranose form of a D -aldohexose has the −OH of the anomeric carbon below the plane of the carbon atoms, while the β-isomer has the −OH of the anomeric carbon above the plane.
Ribulose-5 phosphate can also be acted upon by phosphopentose epimerase to form xylulose 5-phosphate, which is used in the nonoxidative phase of the pentose phosphate pathway in humans to generate precursor molecules for the synthesis of aromatic amino acids and production of energy.
The natural isomer is D-erythrose; it is a diastereomer of D-threose. [3] Fischer projections depicting the two enantiomers of erythrose. Erythrose was first isolated in 1849 from rhubarb by the French pharmacist Louis Feux Joseph Garot (1798-1869), [4] and was named as such because of its red hue in the presence of alkali metals ...