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The Uronic Acid Pathway and its Defect in Essential Pentosuria

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International Symposium on Metabolism, Physiology, and Clinical Use of Pentoses and Pentitols

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I shall briefly review the experimental basis for the glucuronate-xylulose pathway and then discuss some conceptual problems in part related to current studies in our laboratory.

Unpublished work described in this paper was supported in part by Grant No. GB-3541 from the National Sciences Foundation.

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    Oscar Touster

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    Bernard L. Horecker

  2. Physiologisch-Chemisches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, West Germany

    Konrad Lang

  3. Department of Biochemistry, Kyushu University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan

    Yasuyuki Takagi

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Touster, O. (1969). The Uronic Acid Pathway and its Defect in Essential Pentosuria. In: Horecker, B.L., Lang, K., Takagi, Y. (eds) International Symposium on Metabolism, Physiology, and Clinical Use of Pentoses and Pentitols. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46191-0_5

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