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Ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase

1 reactions · 1 pathways

What it does, reaction by reaction

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Pentose Phosphate Pathway (Oxidative and Non-oxidative phases) Carbohydrate Metabolism · Cytosol

step 5 Reversible

Ribulose-5-phosphate ↔ xylulose-5-phosphate

Converts Ribulose-5-phosphate into Xylulose-5-phosphate

Notes

Ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase reversibly epimerizes carbon 3 to form xylulose-5-phosphate. A divalent metal ion is required.

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What accelerates and inhibits it

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