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pentosephosphate

Pentosephosphate vs Phosphoribosylpyrophosphate - What's the difference?

pentosephosphate | phosphoribosylpyrophosphate |


As a noun phosphoribosylpyrophosphate is

(biochemistry) a pentosephosphate, formed from ribose 5-phosphate by the enzyme ribose-phosphate diphosphokinase, which plays a role in transferring phospho-ribose groups in several reactions.