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    Fucose is a hexose deoxy sugar with the chemical formula C6H12O5. It is found on N-linked glycans on the mammalian, insect and plant cell surface. Fucose...
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  • using fucose as a carbon source. High concentrations of fucose in the medium also increases the repression of the LEE genes. With low levels of fucose in...
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    GDP-fucose protein O-fucosyltransferase 1 also known as peptide-O-fucosyltransferase 1 (O-FucT-1) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the POFUT1...
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  • Addition of fucose sugars by fucosyltransferases forms Lewis epitopes and the scaffold for blood group determinants. Addition of a fucose alone creates...
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  • In enzymology, a GDP-L-fucose synthase (EC 1.1.1.271) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction GDP-4-dehydro-6-deoxy-D-mannose + NADPH + H+ ⇌...
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  • GDP-beta-L-fucose:polypeptide O-alpha-L-fucosyltransferase. Other names in common use include GDP-L-fucose:polypeptide fucosyltransferase, GDP-fucose protein...
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  • ATP + L-fucose ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } ADP + beta-L-fucose 1-phosphate Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are ATP and L-fucose, whereas...
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  • enzymology, a fucose-1-phosphate guanylyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.30) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction GTP + beta-L-fucose 1-phosphate ⇌...
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    Examples include: Deoxyribose, or 2-deoxy-D-ribose, a constituent of DNA Fucose, or 6-deoxy-L-galactose, main component of fucoidan of brown algae, and...
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    In enzymology, a L-fucose isomerase (EC 5.3.1.25) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction L-fucose ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } L-fuculose...
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