Pentose phosphate, phosphogluconate, or hexose monophsphate pathway oxidizes glucose-6-phosphate to fructose-6-phosphate and glyceraldehyde-3-P. NADP+ is the electron acceptor. The pathways yields NADPH as well as 5, 4, and 7 carbon intermediaries for synthesis of nucleotides.
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D. Voet & J.G. Voet (1990) Biochemistry, John Wiley & Sons, New York, pp. 577-583.
HomologyConvert
This pathway was inferred from Homo sapiens pathway WP134(r30180) with a 87% conversion rate.
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