a simple monosaccharide produced by the oxidation of glycerol. Formula: CH2OHCHOHCHO
triose in American English
(ˈtraɪoʊs)
noun
a monosaccharide, C3H6O3, with three carbon atoms
Word origin
tri- + -ose1
triose in American English
(ˈtraious)
noun
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon
Word origin
[1890–95; tri- + -ose2]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blanket roll, cholesterol, historicism, plein-air, wireless-ose is a suffix used in chemical terminology to form the names of sugars and other carbohydrates(amylose; fructose; hexose; lactose), and of protein derivatives (proteose)
Examples of 'triose' in a sentence
triose
The results support a metabolic scenario where the cytosolic triose-phosphate dehydrogenases are regulated under changeable redox conditions.
Alberto A. Iglesias, Sergio A. Guerrero, Claudia V. Piattoni 2013, 'A Differential Redox Regulation of the Pathways Metabolizing Glyceraldehyde-3-PhosphateTunes the Production of Reducing Power in the Cytosol of Plant Cells', International Journal of Molecular Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/14/4/8073. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this work we found redox regulation to be a posttranslational mechanism allowing the fine-tuning of the triose-phosphate fate.
Alberto A. Iglesias, Sergio A. Guerrero, Claudia V. Piattoni 2013, 'A Differential Redox Regulation of the Pathways Metabolizing Glyceraldehyde-3-PhosphateTunes the Production of Reducing Power in the Cytosol of Plant Cells', International Journal of Molecular Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/14/4/8073. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)