Deoxy sugar

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Deoxy sugars are sugars that have had a hydroxyl group replaced with a hydrogen.

Examples include:

• Deoxyribose (based upon ribose)
• Fucose
• Rhamnose

• Deoxy+Sugars at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
• Overview at qmul.ac.uk

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