Arabinose is an aldopentose – a monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms, and including an aldehyde (CHO) functional group. For biosynthetic reasons...
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The L-arabinose operon, also called the ara or araBAD operon, is an operon required for the breakdown of the five-carbon sugar L-arabinose in Escherichia...
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deoxyribose is most notable for its presence in DNA. Since the pentose sugars arabinose and ribose only differ by the stereochemistry at C2′, 2-deoxyribose and...
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Repressor (section L-arabinose operon repressor)
to be produced. The L-arabinose operon houses genes coding for arabinose-digesting enzymes. These function to break down arabinose as an alternative source...
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UDP-4-amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.87, UDP-(beta-L-threo-pentapyranosyl-4-ulose diphosphate) aminotransferase, UDP-4-amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose---oxoglutarate...
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In enzymology, an arabinose isomerase (EC 5.3.1.3) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction D-arabinose ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons }...
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In enzymology, a L-arabinose 1-dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.46) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction L-arabinose + NAD+ ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons...
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In enzymology, a D-arabinose 1-dehydrogenase [NAD(P)+] (EC 1.1.1.117) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction D-arabinose + NAD(P)+ ⇌ {\displaystyle...
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In enzymology, an UDP-arabinose 4-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.5) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction UDP-L-arabinose ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons...
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In enzymology, a L-arabinose isomerase (EC 5.3.1.4) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction L-arabinose ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons }...
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