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ArticleBBA advances2025

Transforming monosaccharides: Recent advances in rare sugar production and future exploration.

Shin-Ichi Nakakita, Jun Hirabayashi

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Article in BBA advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Resolving Conformational Preferences of Monosaccharides fromJournal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  2. Site-Selective Distal Arylation of Sugars Enabled by Cyclic Acetals.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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Shin-Ichi NakakitaDepartment of Basic Life Science, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, 1750-1, Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan.
Jun HirabayashiDepartment of Basic Life Science, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, 1750-1, Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rare sugars are defined as monosaccharides and their derivatives that do not exist in nature at all or that exist in extremely limited amounts despite being theoretically possible. At present, no comprehensive dogma has been presented regarding how and why these rare sugars have deviated from the naturally selected monosaccharides. In this minireview, we adopt a hypothesis on the origin and evolution of elementary hexoses, previously presented by one of the authors (Hirabayashi, Q Rev Biol, 1996, 71:365-380). In this scenario, monosaccharides, which constitute various kinds of glycans in nature, are assumed to have been generated by formose reactions on the prebiotic Earth (chemical evolution era). Among them, the most stable hexoses,

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AlditolAldohexoseEnediol intermediateEpimeraseIsomeraseKeto-enol tautomerismKetohexoseLobry de Bruyn transformationRare sugarSynthetic glycomics

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PMID39926187
PMCPMC11803239

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