Fructose (/ˈfrʌktoʊs, -oʊz/), or fruit sugar, is a ketonic simple sugar found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide...
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High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), also known as glucose–fructose, isoglucose and glucose–fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. As in the...
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Fructose malabsorption, formerly named dietary fructose intolerance (DFI), is a digestive disorder in which absorption of fructose is impaired by deficient...
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Hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI) is an inborn error of fructose metabolism caused by a deficiency of the enzyme aldolase B. Individuals affected...
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enzyme fructose bisphosphatase (EC 3.1.3.11; systematic name D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate 1-phosphohydrolase) catalyses the conversion of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate...
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Phosphofructokinase 1 (redirect from ATP:D-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase)
important "committed" step of glycolysis, the conversion of fructose 6-phosphate and ATP to fructose 1,6-bisphosphate and ADP. Glycolysis is the foundation...
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Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, known in older publications as Harden-Young ester, is fructose sugar phosphorylated on carbons 1 and 6 (i.e., is a fructosephosphate)...
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Fructose 6-phosphate (sometimes called the Neuberg ester) is a derivative of fructose, which has been phosphorylated at the 6-hydroxy group. It is one...
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Sucrose (section High-fructose corn syrup)
Sucrose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of glucose and fructose subunits. It is produced naturally in plants and is the main constituent of white...
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Fructolysis refers to the metabolism of fructose from dietary sources. Though the metabolism of glucose through glycolysis uses many of the same enzymes...
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Fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, abbreviated Fru-2,6-P2, is a metabolite that allosterically affects the activity of the enzymes phosphofructokinase 1 (PFK-1)...
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sucrose inversion, is a syrup mixture of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose, that is made by hydrolytic saccharification of the disaccharide sucrose...
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Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase (EC 4.1.2.13), often just aldolase, is an enzyme catalyzing a reversible reaction that splits the aldol, fructose 1,6-bisphosphate...
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tequilana (blue agave) and Agave salmiana. Blue-agave syrup contains 56% fructose as a sugar providing sweetening properties. To produce agave syrup from...
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PFP (enzyme) (redirect from Diphosphate—fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase)
interconversion of fructose 6-phosphate and fructose 1,6-bisphosphate using inorganic pyrophosphate as the phosphoryl donor: diphosphate + D-fructose 6-phosphate...
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Sugars in wine (redirect from Fructose (wine))
glucose and fructose. By the time of harvest, between 15 and 25% of the grape will be composed of simple sugars. Both glucose and fructose are six-carbon...
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in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double sugars...
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Aldolase B (redirect from Fructose-1-phosphate_aldolase)
also known as fructose-bisphosphate aldolase B or liver-type aldolase is one of three isoenzymes (A, B, and C) of the class I fructose 1,6-bisphosphate...
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GLUT5 (redirect from Fructose carrier)
GLUT5 is a fructose transporter expressed on the apical border of enterocytes in the small intestine. GLUT5 allows for fructose to be transported from...
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1-phosphofructokinase (redirect from ATP:D-fructose-phosphate 6-phosphotransferase)
reaction ATP + D-fructose 1-phosphate → ADP + D-fructose 1,6-bisphosphate Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are ATP and D-fructose 1-phosphate, whereas...
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γλεῦκος (gleûkos) 'wine, must'), and is used for almost all sugars (e.g., fructose (fruit sugar), sucrose (cane or beet sugar), ribose, lactose (milk sugar))...
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The enzyme fructose-2,6-bisphosphate 6-phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.54) catalyzes the reaction β-D-fructose 2,6-bisphosphate + H2O ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons...
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Glucose/fructose/phosphoric acid (trade name Emetrol) is an over-the-counter antiemetic taken to relieve nausea and vomiting. Made by WellSpring Pharmaceutical...
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Phosphofructokinase 2 (redirect from Fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase)
Phosphofructokinase-2 (6-phosphofructo-2-kinase, PFK-2) or fructose bisphosphatase-2 (FBPase-2), is an enzyme indirectly responsible for regulating the...
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Sucrose-phosphate synthase (redirect from UDP-glucose:D-fructose-6-phosphate 2-alpha-D-glucosyltransferase)
of a hexosyl group from uridine diphosphate glucose (UDP-glucose) to D-fructose 6-phosphate to form UDP and D-sucrose-6-phosphate. This reversible step...
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Fructose intolerance may refer to: Fructose malabsorption, a digestive disorder of the small intestine in which the fructose carrier in enterocytes is...
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into high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) by using the enzyme D-xylose isomerase to convert a large proportion of its glucose into sweeter fructose. The more...
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one compound as a glycolysis intermediate: fructose 1,6-bisphosphate.: 151–158 The elucidation of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate was accomplished by measuring...
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Critics and competitors of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), notably the sugar industry, have for many years used various public relations campaigns to...
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enzymology, a glucose-fructose oxidoreductase (EC 1.1.99.28) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction D-glucose + D-fructose ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons...
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