IN a recent issue of Nature 1, Caspersson and Schultz stress the importance of the occurrence of pentose-nucleotides in the nucleus and especially in the cytoplasm of cells in rapid mitotic division.

Purines are one of three components of nucleotides; phosphate esters of a pentose sugar (either ribose or deoxyribose) in which a purine or pyrimidine base is linked to C1 of the sugar.

Further analysis has shown that efficient simultaneous utilization of sugar mixtures with different pentose/hexose ratios ... by adjusting the initial structure of the Y-shaped consortium.

Swiss biotech company Evolva believes it has a solution in its newly launched L-arabinose, which is both a sugar blocker and a reducing sugar. Sweet tasting L-arabinose is a pentose sugar, meaning it ...