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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.
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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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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- Classification
- Aldopentoses
- Ketopentoses
- Cyclic forms
- Deoxypentoses
- Properties
- Tests for pentoses
- References
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.
Pentoses are very important in biochemistry. Ribose is a constituent of RNA, and the related molecule, deoxyribose, is a constituent of DNA. Phosphorylated pentoses are important products of the pentose phosphate pathway, most importantly ribose 5-phosphate (R5P), which is used in the synthesis of nucleotides and nucleic acids.