Sedoheptulose or pseudoheptulose or 'D-altro-heptulose' is a ketoheptose—a monosaccharide with seven carbon atoms and a ketone functional group. It is one of the few heptoses found in nature, and is found in various fruits and vegetables ranging from carrots and leeks to figs, mangos and avocados.
Sedoheptulose or pseudoheptulose or 'D-altro-heptulose' is a ketoheptose—a monosaccharide with seven carbon atoms and a ketone functional group. It is one of the few heptoses found in nature, and is found in various fruits and vegetables ranging from carrots and leeks to figs, mangos and avocados.
It is an intermediate in respiratory and photosynthetic pathways and plays a vital role in the non-oxidative branch of the pentose phosphate pathway.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).