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glucose 6-phosphate

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English

Syllables
glu-cose 6-phos-phate
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A glucose sugar phosphorylated at the hydroxy group on carbon 6.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

G6P (alternative, initialism) glucose-6-phosphate (alternative)

Phrases

glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency glucose-6-phosphate isomerase

Synonyms

Robison ester

Questions

What does glucose 6-phosphate mean?
A glucose sugar phosphorylated at the hydroxy group on carbon 6.

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