To create XNAs, Holliger and his team replaced the deoxyribose with alternative synthetic chemical ring structures such
as arabinose or cyclohexene.
Not exact matches
As a grad student, I once spent 2 months demonstrating that three particular amino acids on a protein in the
arabinose operon (the group of genes that allows bacteria to metabolize a certain sugar) do not play a role in causing that protein to bind to other copies of itself.
It contains high amounts of the flavonoids (−)- epicatechin (EC), (+)- catechin and their dimers procyanidins B2 (PB2) and B1, and other polyphenols such
as quercetin, isoquercitrin (quercetin 3 - O - glucoside), quercetin 3 - O -
arabinose, hyperoside (quercetin 3 - O - galactoside), naringenin, luteolin and apigenin have also been found in minor quantities.
The presence of a glucose moiety compared with a galactose or
arabinose on the cyanidin and peonidin anthocyanidins present in cranberry juice seems to make them more bioavailable
as a percentage of the delivered dose (16).