Biologically Active Substance
rhamnose
rham·nose [ ram-nohs, -nohz ]
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A methylpentose whose L- isomer is found naturally in many plant glycosides and some gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharides.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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A pentose which is a 6-deoxy mannose. It has a structure like mannose with the OH group at carbon-6 (in Fisher projection) replaced by H.CRCH Nutrition TerminologyCancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, 2021
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