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class=skin-invert-image|thumb|right|250px|Fructose, an example of a ketose. The ketone group is the double-bonded oxygen.
Research
23,252 papers- Elucidation of d-allulose recognition mechanism in ketose 3-epimerase.Journal of bioscience and bioengineering · 2024
- 2-keto-3-deoxy-D-gluconate.Methods in enzymology · 1975
- Antibacterial Target DXP Synthase Catalyzes the Cleavage of d-Xylulose 5-Phosphate: a Study of Ketose Phosphate Binding and Ketol Transfer Reaction.Biochemistry · 2022
- Methionine Salvage Enzyme Uses a Unique Mechanism to Overcome a Challenging Aldose-Ketose Isomerization.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
- Ketose induced respiratory inhibition in isolated hepatocytes.Revista espanola de fisiologia · 1987
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- monosaccharide
- Has part
- hydrogen
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class=skin-invert-image|thumb|right|250px|Fructose, an example of a ketose. The ketone group is the double-bonded oxygen.
In organic chemistry, a ketose is a monosaccharide containing one ketone () group per molecule. The simplest ketose is dihydroxyacetone (), which has only three carbon atoms. It is the only ketose with no optical activity. All monosaccharide ketoses are reducing sugars, because they can tautomerize into aldoses via an enediol intermediate, and the resulting aldehyde group can be oxidised, for example in the Tollens' test or Benedict's test. Ketoses that are bound into glycosides, for example in the case of the fructose moiety of sucrose, are nonreducing sugars.
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