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pentose-phosphate shunt

The glucose-6-phosphate catabolic process in which, coupled to NADPH synthesis, glucose-6-P is oxidized with the formation of carbon dioxide (CO2) and ribulose 5-phosphate; ribulose 5-P then enters a series of reactions interconverting sugar phosphat
Class type of: metabolic pathway, glucose 6-phosphate metabolic process, NADPH regeneration Q827489

Facts

3 properties
Instance of
biological process
Subclass of
metabolic pathway, glucose 6-phosphate metabolic process, NADPH regeneration[2][3][4]
Has part(s)
NADP+, NADPH, D-glucose 6-phosphate, NADP(3-)[5][6][7][8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Pentose phosphate pathway: PPP en pentose-phosphate shunt en pentose phosphate pathway en pentose-phosphate pathway en hexose monophosphate pathway en pentose phosphate shunt en GO:0006098 ar مسار فوسفات البنتوز cs pentosofosfátový cyklus cs pentosový cyklus cs pentózový cyklus cs pentózofosfátový cyklus de Pentosephosphatweg de Pentosephosphat-Shunt de Oxidativer Pentosephosphatweg de Ketolase de Hexosemonophosphate shunt de Hexosemonophosphat-Weg de Transaldolase-Transketolase-Weg de Phosphogluconat-Weg
🔖 Identifiers · 13
OpenAlex ID
C3409486
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/phosphogluconate-pathway
Exact match
purl.obolibrary.org
Freebase ID
/m/05354t
Gene Ontology ID
GO:0006098
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2710815
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
pentozofosfatnyi-put-9bec1b
Krugosvet article (archived)
nauka_i_tehnika/himiya/GEKSOZOMONOFOSFATNI_SHUNT.html
MeSH descriptor ID
D010427
MeSH tree code
G02.111.158.875, G03.191.875, G03.295.693, G03.493.695
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
3409486
UMLS CUI
C0030892
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WikiSkripta article ID
25661

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🔗 Connections
Has part(s) 1
D-glucose 6-phosphate
Has these parts 1
D-glucose 6-phosphate
Instance of 1
biological process
Subclass of 1
metabolic pathway
← Biological process 1
glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
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Summary

pentose-phosphate shunt is a biological process[1].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2022-07-01. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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