DIY Glycolysis

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Step Six - Ketose to Aldose Isomerisation of Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate

Impossible Reaction!

Glyceraldehyde is already an aldose so you can't convert it into one! If it were a ketose the carbonyl group wouldn't be on the end on the carbon backbone.

Author: Jon Maber

j.r.maber@leeds.ac.uk

Dept Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Leeds, U.K.

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Leeds, U.K.