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L-xylitol metabolic process

Term Information

Accession
GO:0051164
Name
L-xylitol metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
L-xylitol metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving L-xylitol, a five-carbon sugar alcohol derived from xylose by reduction of the carbonyl group. It is as sweet as sucrose and is used as a noncariogenic sweetner and as a sugar substitute in diabetic diets. Source: GOC:ai
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0051164 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of L-xylitol metabolic process (GO:0051164)
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L-xylitol metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  pentitol metabolic process (GO:0019519)
Children of L-xylitol metabolic process (GO:0051164)
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L-xylitol catabolic process (GO:0051160) [is_a relation] is_a  L-xylitol metabolic process
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