Xylose, or wood sugar, is an aldopentose — a monosaccharide
Monosaccharide
Monosaccharides are the most basic unit of carbohydrates. They are the simplest form of sugar and are usually colorless, water-soluble, crystal solids.... containing five carbon
Carbon
Carbon is a chemical element with chemical symbol C and atomic number 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalence?making four electrons available to form covalent bond chemical bonds.... atom
Atom
|-! bgcolor=gray | Properties|-||}The atom is a basic unit of matter consisting of a dense, central atomic nucleus surrounded by a electron cloud of electric charge electrons.... s and including an aldehyde
Aldehyde
An aldehyde is an organic compound containing a terminal carbonyl group. This functional group, which consists of a carbon atom bonded to a hydrogen atom and double bond to an oxygen atom , is called the aldehyde group.... functional group
Functional group
In organic chemistry, functional groups are specific groups of atoms within molecules that are responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions of those molecules.... . It has chemical formula
Chemical formula
A chemical formula is a way of expressing information about the atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound, and how the relationship between those atoms changes in chemical reactions.... 5105. Xylose is found in the embryo
Embryo
An embryo is a multicellular organism ploidy eukaryote in its earliest stage of development, from the time of first cell division until birth, Egg , or germination.... s of most edible plant
Plant
Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae.... s.
In animal medicine, xylose is used to test for malabsorption
Malabsorption
Malabsorption is a state arising from abnormality in digestion or absorption of Nutrient across the gastrointestinal tract.Impairment can be of single or multiple nutrients depending on the abnormality.... by administration in water to the patient after fasting
Fasting
Fasting is primarily the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time. A fast may be total or partial concerning that from which one fasts, and may be prolonged or intermittent as to the period of fasting.... . If xylose is detected in blood
Blood
Blood is a specialized bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body's Cell s ? such as nutrients and oxygen ? and transports waste products away from those same cells.... and/or urine
Urine
Urine is a liquid waste product of the body secreted by the kidneys by a process of filtration from blood called urination and excreted through the urethra.... within the next few hours, it has been absorbed by the intestines.
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Xylose, or wood sugar, is an aldopentose — a monosaccharide
Monosaccharide
Monosaccharides are the most basic unit of carbohydrates. They are the simplest form of sugar and are usually colorless, water-soluble, crystal solids.... containing five carbon
Carbon
Carbon is a chemical element with chemical symbol C and atomic number 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalence?making four electrons available to form covalent bond chemical bonds.... atom
Atom
|-! bgcolor=gray | Properties|-||}The atom is a basic unit of matter consisting of a dense, central atomic nucleus surrounded by a electron cloud of electric charge electrons.... s and including an aldehyde
Aldehyde
An aldehyde is an organic compound containing a terminal carbonyl group. This functional group, which consists of a carbon atom bonded to a hydrogen atom and double bond to an oxygen atom , is called the aldehyde group.... functional group
Functional group
In organic chemistry, functional groups are specific groups of atoms within molecules that are responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions of those molecules.... . It has chemical formula
Chemical formula
A chemical formula is a way of expressing information about the atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound, and how the relationship between those atoms changes in chemical reactions.... 5105. Xylose is found in the embryo
Embryo
An embryo is a multicellular organism ploidy eukaryote in its earliest stage of development, from the time of first cell division until birth, Egg , or germination.... s of most edible plant
Plant
Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae.... s.
In animal medicine, xylose is used to test for malabsorption
Malabsorption
Malabsorption is a state arising from abnormality in digestion or absorption of Nutrient across the gastrointestinal tract.Impairment can be of single or multiple nutrients depending on the abnormality.... by administration in water to the patient after fasting
Fasting
Fasting is primarily the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time. A fast may be total or partial concerning that from which one fasts, and may be prolonged or intermittent as to the period of fasting.... . If xylose is detected in blood
Blood
Blood is a specialized bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body's Cell s ? such as nutrients and oxygen ? and transports waste products away from those same cells.... and/or urine
Urine
Urine is a liquid waste product of the body secreted by the kidneys by a process of filtration from blood called urination and excreted through the urethra.... within the next few hours, it has been absorbed by the intestines. Reduction
Organic redox reaction
Organic reductions or organic oxidations or organic redox reactions are redox reactions that take place with organic compounds. In organic chemistry oxidations and reductions are different from ordinary redox reactions because many reactions carry the name but do not actually involve electron transfer in the electrochemistry sense... of xylose by catalytic hydrogenation
Hydrogenation
Hydrogenation is the chemical reaction that results from the addition of hydrogen . The process is usually employed to a redox or Saturation organic compounds.... produces the sugar substitute
Sugar substitute
A sugar substitute is a food additive that duplicates the effect of sugar in taste, but usually has less food energy. Some sugar substitutes are natural and some are synthetic.... xylitol
Xylitol
Xylitol is an organic compound with the formula 32. This achiral species is one of four isomers of 1,2,3,4,5-pentapentanol.... . Both xylose and xylitol are reducing sugar
Reducing sugar
A reducing sugar is any sugar that, in basic solution, forms some aldehyde or ketone. This allows the sugar to act as a reducing agent, for example in the Maillard reaction and Benedict's reagent.... s.
Xylose is also the first saccharide added to the serine
Serine
Serine is an organic compound with the chemical formula hydrogenoxygen2carbonCHCH2OH.... or threonine
Threonine
Threonine is an a-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCHCHCH3. Its codons are ACU, ACA, ACC, and ACG. This essential amino acid is classified as Chemical polarity.... in the proteoglycan
Proteoglycan
File:PBB Protein ACAN image.jpgProteoglycans represent a special class of glycoproteins that are heavily glycosylation. They consist of a core protein with one or more covalent bond attached glycosaminoglycan chain.... type O-glycosylation and so it is the first saccharide in biosynthetic pathways of most anionic polysaccharide
Polysaccharide
Polysaccharides are relatively complex carbohydrates. They are polymers made up of many monosaccharides joined together by glycosidic bonds. They are therefore very large, often branched, macromolecules.... s such as heparan sulfate
Heparan sulfate
Heparan sulfate is a linear polysaccharide found in all animal tissues. It occurs as a proteoglycan in which two or three HS chains are attached in close proximity to cell surface or extracellular matrix proteins.... and chondroitin sulfate
Chondroitin sulfate
Chondroitin sulfate is a sulfated glycosaminoglycan composed of a chain of alternating sugars . It is usually found attached to proteins as part of a proteoglycan.... .
D-Xylose is a five-carbon monosaccharide that can be metabolized into useful products by a variety of organisms. One such organism that can naturally metabolize xylose is the yeast Pichia stipitis, which expresses the XYL1 and XYL2 genes that are necessary for the enzymatic breakdown of the D-xylose sugar....
