glucose-6-phosphate

noun

: an ester C₆H₁₃O₉P that is formed from glucose and ATP in the presence of a glucokinase and that is an essential early stage in glucose metabolism

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Some 2,500 years later researchers discovered why that reaction occurred: these people inherit genetic variants that lead to a deficiency in the production of an enzyme called glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD). —

Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 17 May 2016

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Etymology

from the position at which the phosphate group is attached

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of glucose-6-phosphate was in 1953

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