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pentitol metabolic process

Known as: pentitol metabolism 
The chemical reactions and pathways involving pentitols, any alditol with a chain of five carbon atoms in the molecule. [ISBN:0198506732]
National Institutes of Health

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2004
2004
Evaluation of pentitol metabolism in mammalian tissues provides new insight into disorders of human sugar metabolism.
To more completely elucidate the pathways of sugar metabolism in human, we have evaluated the formation and degradation of… Expand
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2003
2003
Biochemical and genetic characterization of a novel enzyme of pentitol metabolism: D-arabitol-phosphate dehydrogenase.
An enzyme with a specificity that has not been described previously, D-arabitol-phosphate dehydrogenase (APDH), has been purified… Expand
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1979
1979
Acidogenic fermentation of pentose alcohols by human dental plaque microorganisms.
Abstract The potential non-cariogenicity of the pentose sugar alcohols xylitol, l -arabinitol and ribitol was estimated by… Expand
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1979
1979
Evolution of enzyme structure
Three-dimensional structures of enzymes offer evidence about their evolution. There are clear examples of divergent families (e… Expand
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1968
1968
Regulation of pentitol metabolism by aerobacter aerogenes. II. Induction of the ribitol pathway.
The incubation of Aerobacter aerogenes PRL-R3 with ribitol resulted in the induction of ribitol dehydrogenase and d-ribulokinase… Expand
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1968
1968
Regulation of pentitol metabolism by Aerobacter aerogenes. I. Coordinate control of ribitol dehydrogenase and D-ribulokinase activities.
Induction studies on Aerobacter aerogenes strain PRL-R3, using ribitol as the inducer-substrate, indicated that two enzymes of… Expand
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