Research
1,860 papers- ADP-heptose: A new innate immune modulator.Carbohydrate research · 2019
- Heptose-containing bacterial natural products: structures, bioactivities, and biosyntheses.Natural product reports · 2021
- Bacterial ADP-heptose triggers stem cell regeneration in the intestinal epithelium following injury.Cell stem cell · 2025
- ADP-heptose: a bacterial PAMP detected by the host sensor ALPK1.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021
- ADP-heptose attenuates Helicobacter pylori-induced dendritic cell activation.Gut microbes · 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- monosaccharide
- Has part
- hydrogen
- Followed by
- octose
- Follows
- hexose
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- topic's main category
- Category:Heptoses
- Commons category
- Heptoses
- chemical formula
- C₇H₁₄O₇
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Role in cell signaling
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A heptose is a monosaccharide with seven carbon atoms.
They have either an aldehyde functional group in position 1 (aldoheptoses) or a ketone functional group in position 2, 3 or 4 (ketoheptoses). Ketoheptoses have 4 chiral centers, whereas aldoheptoses have 5.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “heptose” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.