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n. Any of a class of monosaccharide sugars containing an aldehyde group.

n. Any of a class of monosaccharides having an aldehyde or hemiacetal functional group.

n. A name given to any monosaccharide which is an aldehyde to distinguish it from a ketose, which contams a ketone-group.

n. a monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal

"It has been proposed that the open chain aldose while on the enzyme undergoes torsional inversion at the C2-C3 bond before ring closing."

monosaccharide    monosaccharose    simple sugar   

ketose   

aldohexose   

alpha-glucosidase    chelate    trypsin    cholinesterase    histone    proteasome    indoleamine    thioredoxin    cyclooxygenase    epoxide