In the case of DNA and RNA, these monomers are nucleotides. Nucleotides themselves are composed of three distinct parts: sugar, phosphate, and a nitrogenous base. Here's what each of those really ...

IN a recent issue of Nature1, 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.

Figure 1. The structure of nucleotides depicting how the base and pentose sugar (nucleoside, in yellow blue and green) may be attached to either one, two or three phosphate groups.

A group of Chinese scientists have recently developed a new synthetic consortium for efficient pentose-hexose co-utilization that could improve bio-manufacturing.

The ingredient is particularly suited to food and beverage applications for at least two key reasons: it is both a sugar blocker and a reducing sugar. “As a sugar blocker, L-arabinose works by ...