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Also known as tetroses

In organic chemistry, a tetrose is a monosaccharide with 4 carbon atoms. They have either an aldehyde () functional group in position 1 (aldotetroses) or a ketone () group in position 2 (ketotetroses). File:DErythrose Fischer.svg | D-Erythrose File:DThreose Fischer.svg | D-Threose File:DErythrulose Fischer.svg | D-Erythrulose

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Cathodic Hydroxide Ions Induce Tetrose Formation during Glycolaldehyde Electroreduction to Alcohols: A Potential CO(2)-to-Carbohydrate Pathway.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
Tetrose metabolism. 2. The utilization of tetroses and tetritols by rat tissues.The Biochemical journal · 1960
Tetrose phosphate and the formation of sedoheptulose diphosphate.The Journal of biological chemistry · 1955
Tetrose diphosphate, a specific inhibitor of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase.The Journal of biological chemistry · 1959
One-substrate transketolase-catalyzed reaction.Biochemical and biophysical research communications · 2001

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chemical formula: C₄H₈O₄
Commons category: Tetroses
SMARTS notation: [$([OX2H1][CX4H2][CX4H1]([OX2H1])[CX3](=O)[CX4H2][OX2H1]),$([CX4H2]([CX4H1]([CX4H1]([CX3H1]=O)[OX2H1])[OX2H1])[OX2H1])]

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Biological Functions
Intermediates in the Pentose Phosphate Pathway
Inhibitors of Enzymes
References

In organic chemistry, a tetrose is a monosaccharide with 4 carbon atoms. They have either an aldehyde () functional group in position 1 (aldotetroses) or a ketone () group in position 2 (ketotetroses).

File:DErythrose Fischer.svg | D-Erythrose File:DThreose Fischer.svg | D-Threose File:DErythrulose Fischer.svg | D-Erythrulose

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