Fuculose or 6-deoxy-tagatose is a
ketohexose
In chemistry, a hexose is a monosaccharide (simple sugar) with six carbon atoms. The chemical formula for all hexoses is C6H12O6, and their molecular weight is 180.156 g/mol.
Hexoses exist in two forms, open-chain or cyclic, that easily convert ...
deoxy sugar
Deoxy sugars are sugars that have had a hydroxyl group replaced with a hydrogen atom.
Examples include:
* Deoxyribose, or 2-deoxy-D-ribose, a constituent of DNA
* Fucose, or 6-deoxy-L-galactose, main component of fucoidan of brown algae, and p ...
. Fuculose is involved in the process of sugar metabolism. -Fuculose can be formed from
-fucose by
-fucose isomerase and converted to
L-fuculose-1-phosphate by
-fuculose kinase.
See also
*
-fuculose-phosphate aldolase
*
-fuculosekinase
References
Deoxy sugars
Ketohexoses
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