Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a class of monosaccharide sugars containing an aldehyde group.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name given to any monosaccharide which is an aldehyde to distinguish it from a ketose, which contams a ketone-group.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry, biochemistry Any of a class of monosaccharides having an aldehyde or hemiacetal functional group.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[ald(ehyde) + –ose.]

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Examples

  • It has been proposed that the open chain aldose while on the enzyme undergoes torsional inversion at the C2-C3 bond before ring closing.

    Irwin Rose - Autobiography 2005

  • They also reported that activity of the enzyme, known as aldose reductase, can be significantly reduced by compounds that have already undergone clinical trials as treatments for complications of diabetes.

    The Daily News - News 2009

  • NFAT5 regulates the adaptation of mammalian cells to hypertonic stress by inducing the expression of osmoprotective gene products that include chaperones and a number of enzymes and transporters, such as aldose reductase (AR), whose collective function is to increase the intracellular concentration of compatible organic osmolytes that allow cells to adapt and survive in a hypertonic environment

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anaïs Estrada-Gelonch et al. 2009

  • [13] and Hspa4l / Osp94 [14], and enzymes and transporters that increase the intracellular concentration of compatible osmolytes, such as aldose reductase (AR), the Na

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Katherine Drews-Elger et al. 2009

  • Thus a-xylose were the substrates for the 2R-aldose enzymes in their production of fructose

    Irwin Rose - Autobiography 2005

  • I had been looking for evidence of proton transfer in enzymes that catalyzed aldose-ketose interconversions.

    Irwin Rose - Autobiography 2005

  • If now the aldose groups tend to pass over into the starch form, representing a temporary overflow product of the assimilating energy, it would appear that the ketose or levulose groups are preferentially used up in the elaboration of the permanent tissue.

    Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross

  • The reason it is a 4 membered ring is because it is a ketose, as opposed to an aldose.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • All four compounds also inhibit aldose reductase, a target enzyme for pharmacological control of diabetic complications.

    Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34; 2010

  • All four compounds also inhibit aldose reductase, a target enzyme for pharmacological control of diabetic complications.

    Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34;Acai Berry 2010

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