Rare sugars, naturally occurring monosaccharides found in minute quantities, have emerged as compounds of considerable interest in both nutritional science and metabolic research. Their unique ...

TAL is a central, almost ubiquitous, enzyme of sugar metabolism that catalyzes the reversible transfer of a three-carbon, dihydroxyacetone moiety from ketose phosphates to the C1 position of aldose ...

Ketones are in equilibrium with a form known as an enol. The name enol derives from the fact that enols are a combination of a carbonyl (C=O) containing group, such as an aldehyde or ketone and an ...