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Meaning of "pentose"

Pentose (adjective): Referring to a monosaccharide with five carbon atoms. Pentose sugars play a crucial role in various biological processes
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  • A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.

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A pentose is a monosaccharide with five carbon atoms.
A polymer composed of pentose sugars is called a pentosan.
It is formed by conversion of glucose vía the pentose phosphates.
In particular pentose or hexose monosaccharides are especially convenient.
Phosphogluconolactone is an intermediate in the pentose phosphate pathway.
The principal pentose present in the vinasses is xylose.
Ribulose sugars are composed in the pentose phosphate pathway.
Pentose is an undesirable constituent of this liquor.
Increased flux of the pentose phosphate pathway.
The pentose phosphate pathway is an alternative method of oxidizing glucose.
This enzyme participates in pentose phosphate pathway.
Pentose phosphate pathway enzymes.
The reductive pentose phosphate cycle.
Pentose phosphate pathway intermediates.
It is a metabolic enzyme involved in the pentose phosphate pathway.

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Preferably said pentose sugar is the aldopentose xylose.
A nitrogenous base and a pentose sugar.
Xylose is the major pentose in hydrolyzed lignocellulosic materials.
A significant amount of hemicellulose derived pentose sugar is xylose.
Reductive pentose phosphate pathway.
Methyluridine contains a thymine base joined to a ribose pentose sugar.
Pentose and glucuronate interconversions.
An example of a suitable pentose sugar is xylose.
Pentose can also be contained in the contacting liquid catalyst.
Cells with improved pentose conversion.
Pentose sugar fermenting cell.
Ribulose and xylulose occur in the pentose phosphate pathway.
Pentose or hexose compounds are preferred.
More preferably it is a pentose or hexose.
Pentose phosphate cycle.
The predominant sugar in hemicellulose is the pentose sugar xylose.
Pentose phosphate shunt.
Sugar has five carbon atoms meaning it a pentose sugar.
Said at least one pentose is xylose or a mixture of xylose and arabinose.
Industrial yeast capable of producing ethanol from at least one pentose.
This pentose sugar reacts with oxidants to yield a mixture of products.
It is naturally formed natural sugar and its alternative name is pentose.
Reversible inhibitors or pentose phosphate pathway of glucose oxidation can be used.
Pentose fermenting microorganisms.
Xylan is a polysaccharide made from units of xylose which is a pentose sugar.
Key enzymes of glycolysis and the pentose phosphate shunt were also detected.
Xylose isomerase genes and their use in fermentation of pentose sugars.
Both glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway compete for glucose.
Thus genetic modifications are necessary to improve the assimilation of pentose sugars.
Fermentation of pentose sugars.
Both hexose and pentose fermenting organisms are well known in the art.
This was due to the shutting down of the pentose phosphate pathway.
Exemplary pentose sugar analogs and nucleotide base analog are described above.
It is also stipulated by activation of glycolytic and pentose ways of glucose oxidation.
Pentose sugars are metabolised vía the phosphogluconate pathway to lactic and acetic acids.

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