rhamnose


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rhamnose

(ˈræmnəʊs)
n
(Biochemistry) a methyl-pentose chemical found in poison ivy and which also occurs in many plant sugars
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rham•nose

(ˈræm noʊs, -noʊz)

n.
a crystalline sugar, C6H12O5, that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
[< German (1887), = Greek rhámn(os) thorn bush + German -ose -ose2]
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ramnosa
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Other sugars have been reported in this composition, such as rhamnose, depending on the microbial strain (Luvielmo & Scamparini, 2009).
White amorphous solid (< 2mg); 1H NMR (CD3OD, 300 MHz): I' 9.83 (s), 7.64, 7.65 (d, J = 1.7Hz), 7.03, 7.00 (dd, J = 8.3, 1.6 Hz), 6.84, 6.83 (d, J = 8.6 Hz), 5.43, 5.40 (d, J = 1.4 Hz), 4.50 (s), 4.35-3.41 (several overlapped signals of rhamnose), 2.18 (s), 1.25, 1.23 (d, J = 6.1 Hz); +HR-FABMS: m/z 350.1214 [M+Na]+ (calcd.
It is also known that pectin and other monosaccharides in the cell wall, such as xylose, glucose, rhamnose, and mannose, are solubilized during melon ripening (Supapvanich & Tucker, 2013).
The aglycone is bound to various sugars including glucose, glucuronic acid, galactose, xylose, apiose, rhamnose etc.
Glycerol, mannitol and sorbitol concentrations increased significantly in infected berries along with free galacturonic acid, arabinose, galactose, rhamnose, mannose and xylose.
Biochemicals Interpretation Catalase Produced Oxidase Not produced Citrate (Simmons) Utilized Urease, hydrogen sulfide, indole Not produced Motility Motile Nitrate Reduced to nitrite Glucose, xylose, arabinose, maltose, Fermented trehalose, rhamnose, mannitol Lactose, sucrose, sorbitol Not fermented Oxidative fermentative (OF) Fermentative Methyl red, Voges-Proskauer Positive Lysine, ornithine, arginine Not decarboxylated
Standard monosaccharides (rhamnose, arabinose, fucose, xylose, mannose, glucose, and galactose) are used as reference.
The cell wall of apples is generally depicted as a pectin-rich structure, containing high amounts of rhamnose [9].
The effect of this nonenzymatic alteration with four monosaccharides (glucose (G), mannose (M), arabinose (A), and rhamnose (R)) on the cell morphology and the direction of the differentiation was analyzed.