L-Gulose is an aldohexose sugar. L-Gulose very rarely occurs in nature but has been found in archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes. L-Gulose is not fermentable by yeast. L-Gulose also serves as a direct precursor of L-ascorbic acid in plant cells.
Catalogue number:
013021
Size:
50mg
Alternative names:
L-(+)-Gulose;
References:
Swain, M. et al.: Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1345, 56 (1997); Wolucka, B.A. et al.: J. Biol. Chem., 278, 47483 (2003);