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n. - A monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal.

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  • It has been proposed that the open chain aldose while on the enzyme undergoes torsional inversion at the C2-C3 bond before ring closing.
  • They also reported that activity of the enzyme, known as aldose reductase, can be significantly reduced by compounds that have already undergone clinical trials as...
  • NFAT5 regulates the adaptation of mammalian cells to hypertonic stress by inducing the expression of osmoprotective gene products that include chaperones and a number of...
  • Thus a-xylose were the substrates for the 2R-aldose enzymes in their production of fructose
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