Ribitol, or adonitol, is a crystalline pentose alcohol (C5H12O5) formed by the reduction of ribose. It occurs naturally in the plant Adonis vernalis as...

toīkhos, a regular wall) are bacterial copolymers of glycerol phosphate or ribitol phosphate and carbohydrates linked via phosphodiester bonds. Teichoic acids...

insufficient for RNA synthesis. Another possibility is that the accumulation of D-ribitol and D-arabitol may be toxic. However, Klussman et al. evaluated the toxicity...

(ribitol phosphate)n+1 Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are CDP-ribitol and (ribitol phosphate)n, whereas its two products are CMP and (ribitol...

In enzymology, a ribitol 2-dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.56) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ribitol + NAD+ ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons...

a poly(ribitol-phosphate) beta-glucosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.53) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction UDP-glucose + poly(ribitol phosphate)...

and ribitol. These three compounds differ in the stereochemistry of the three secondary alcohol groups. 5-carbon sugar alcohols Arabitol Ribitol Xylitol...

enzymology, a D-ribitol-5-phosphate cytidylyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.40) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction CTP + D-ribitol 5-phosphate ⇌ {\displaystyle...

Cytidine Diphosphate: CDP-D-Ribitol (i.e. CMP-[ribitol phosphate]); though not a sugar, the phosphorylated sugar alcohol ribitol phosphate is incorporated...

In enzymology, a poly(ribitol-phosphate) N-acetylglucosaminyl-transferase (EC 2.4.1.70) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction UDP-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine...