Lyxose

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Template:Chembox Lyxose is an aldopentose — a monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms, and including an aldehyde functional group. It has chemical formula Template:Chem2. It is a C'-2 carbon epimer of the sugar xylose. The name "lyxose" comes from reversing the prefix "xyl" in "xylose".

Lyxose occurs only rarely in nature, for example, as a component of bacterial glycolipids.[1]

File:D-Lyxose Haworth.svg
D-Lyxose in both its furanose and pyranose forms

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