compound no - All About L-Rhamnose- A Unique Rare Sugar

Car­bo­hy­drates, or sug­ars as they are com­mon­ly called, are one of the most fre­quent­ly used nat­ur­al macro­mol­e­cules. Apart from being a major ener­gy source for mil­lions of species, these are also part of cel­lu­lar struc­tures. While car­bo­hy­drates are abun­dant in nature as a whole, cer­tain sug­ars are not so com­mon. Such sug­ars are called rare sug­ars ; L-Rham­nose being one of them. 

What makes L-Rham­nose so unique ? 

L Rhamnose - All About L-Rhamnose- A Unique Rare SugarThere are three fea­tures which make this mol­e­cule a very unique sug­ar. First, it is rare in nature, found in plant gly­co­sides, and in lipopolysac­cha­rides of some gram-neg­a­­tive bac­te­ria. The sec­ond con­trast­ing fea­ture is its nat­ur­al occur­rence in L-iso­­form. Instead of the L-con­­for­­ma­­tion, car­bo­hy­drate syn­the­sis usu­al­ly occurs to give the D-iso­­form. Third­ly, it is a deoxy sug­ar. These types of sug­ars are often involved in nucleotides syn­the­sis (DNA and RNA).

Occur­rence in nature — plants and bacteria

It is an impor­tant struc­tur­al com­po­nent of cer­tain plan cell walls. In some plants, these exist as sim­ple sug­ars. How­ev­er, in oth­er sev­er­al oth­er plants, these occur as gly­co­sides. Gly­co­sides are com­pounds in which sug­ars are bound to anoth­er group, such as phe­nols. It is wide­ly used by plants to form the poly­sac­cha­rides, rhamno­galac­tur­o­nans. These poly­mers are impor­tant for the struc­tur­al integri­ty of plant cell walls, and include pectin — the sub­stance that holds these cell walls togeth­er. As men­tioned above, in gram-neg­a­­tive bac­te­ria, L-Rham­nose is bound with lipids. Both the sug­ar itself and its lipid com­po­nent, have var­i­ous phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, cos­met­ic and agri­cul­tur­al appli­ca­tions in the indus­try. Mycobac­te­ria, a unique genre in its own rights, also have the sug­ar in its out­er mem­brane. This genre includes the tuber­cu­lo­sis specie, and drugs tar­get­ing L-Rham­nose are being stud­ied for clin­i­cal use. Sev­er­al oth­er bac­te­ria also uti­lize the sug­ar, includ­ing the com­mer­cial­ly used Pseudomonas aerug­i­nosa.

Indus­tri­al appli­ca­tions of L-Rhamnose 

Major appli­ca­tions of the sug­ar include : 
  1. Pro­duc­tion of car­diac drugs–The active com­po­nents of car­diac drugs are often linked to L-Rham­nose, mak­ing it a raw mate­r­i­al for pro­duc­tion of these med­i­c­i­nal com­pounds. How­ev­er, syn­thet­ic drugs are still in the research and devel­op­ment phase, and are yet to arrive in the market.
  2. Syn­thet­ic spices–The syn­thet­ic aro­ma Fura­ne­ol is made using this sug­ar. The com­pound itself holds an impor­tant place in the fruity spice prod­uct industry.
  3. Food addi­tives–Being sim­i­lar to ribose and glu­cose, it pro­duces taste­ful sub­stances mix­ing with oth­er food sub­stances. These are respon­si­ble for devel­op­ing five dif­fer­ent species of flavor.
  4. Bio­chem­i­cal reagents–These are used in var­i­ous exper­i­ments and pro­ce­dures in research and oth­er laboratories.

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