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Definition of Arabinose

1. n. A sugar of the composition C₅H₁₀O₅, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

Definition of Arabinose

1. Noun. (carbohydrates) An aldopentose that occurs most often in polysaccharides such as hemicellulose and pectin. ¹

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Definition of Arabinose

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Medical Definition of Arabinose

1. A pentose monosaccharide that occurs in both D- and L- configurations. D-arabinose is the 2 epimer of D-ribose, i.e. Differs from D-ribose by having the opposite configuration at carbon 2. D-arabinose occurs inter alia in the polysaccharide arabinogalactan, a neutral pectin of the cell wall of plants and in the metabolites cytosine arabinoside and adenine arabinoside. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (22 Feb 2008)

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Literary usage of Arabinose

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1. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"... thought was galactose.6 Scheibler, however, further examined this gum-sugar, and stated it to be a new substance and termed it arabinose.7 Kiliani, ..."

2. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"1-arabinose gives all the general reactions described for reducing sugars ... The best method for detecting 1-arabinose in presence of other sugars (as in ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"CHO I HOCH HCOH HCOH I CH2OH d-arabinose. A similar relationship exists between galactose and arabinose, which occur together in many gums, ..."

4. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"[d + 1] arabinose is formed by the union of the two optically active ... CHO, is obtained from 1-arabinose, by oxidizing the latter to ..."

5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"/arabinose C6H,0O, is obtained by hydrolysis of most gums, particularly gum arabic and cherry gum. Preparation.—A solution of gum arabic, or allied gum ..."

6. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"1-arabinose gives all the general reactions described for reducing sugars and ... The best method for detecting 1-arabinose in presence of other sugars (as ..."

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