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In chemistry, a pentose is a monosaccharide (simple sugar) with five carbon atoms. The chemical formula of many pentoses is , and their molecular weight is 150.13 g/mol.
AI overview
A pentose is a simple sugar molecule made up of five carbon atoms. Pentoses are important building blocks in biology—for example, ribose is a pentose found in RNA, and deoxyribose is a pentose found in DNA.
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Research
28,490 papers- Pentose metabolism and conversion to biofuels and high-value chemicals in yeasts.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2021
- Pentose Metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: The Need to Engineer Global Regulatory Systems.Biotechnology journal · 2019
- GAPDH redox redux-rewiring pentose phosphate flux.Nature metabolism · 2023
- Bioconversion of pentose sugars to value added chemicals and fuels: Recent trends, challenges and possibilities.Bioresource technology · 2018
- Microbial pentose utilization.Advances in applied microbiology · 1993
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- monosaccharide
- Has part
- hydrogen
- Followed by
- hexose
- Follows
- tetrose
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