Lyxose Explained
Lyxose is an aldopentose — a monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms, and including an aldehyde functional group. It has chemical formula . It is a C'-2 carbon epimer of the sugar xylose. The name "lyxose" comes from reversing the prefix "xyl" in "xylose".
Lyxose occurs only rarely in nature, for example, as a component of bacterial glycolipids.[1]
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Notes and References
- K. H.. Khoo. Russell. Suzuki. Anne. Dell. Howard R.. Morris. Michael R.. McNeil. Patrick J.. Brennan. Gurdyal S.. Besra. Chemistry of the Lyxose-Containing Mycobacteriophage Receptors of Mycobacterium phlei/Mycobacterium smegmatis. American Chemical Society. Biochemistry. 35. 10.1021/bi961055+. 36. 11812-11819. 10 September 1996.
