Gaxilose, also known as 4-Galactosylxylose, a synthetic disaccharide and a substrate of intestinal lactase. Gaxilose is used in a new noninvasive diagnostic test based on urine or serum measurement of D-xylose after lactase cleavage of orally administered
Ribulose is an important metabolite in pentose interconversions. Ribulose is useful for analyzing L-ribose isomerase, engineering yeast for xylose metabolism, interesting chiral pool compound.
Cleistanthin is a member of the class of cleistanthins that is the 4-O-3,4-di-O-methyl-beta-D-xylopyranoside of 1,3-dihydronaphtho[2,3-c]furan-4-ol which is substituted by an oxo group at position 1, methoxy groups at positions 6 and 7, and a 1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl group at position 9. It is one of the toxic principles in Cleistanthus collinus. It has a role as an antihypertensive agent, an alpha-adrenergic antagonist and a diuretic. It is a xylose derivative and a member of cleistanthins.
L-Xylulose is an intermediate in certain metabolic pathways and is classified as a rare sugar. It shows important physiological effects such as acting as an inhibitor of α-glucosidase and decreasing blood glucose, and it can be employed to produce other significant rare sugars, such as L-ribose and L-xylose which contribute to the production of antiviral drugs.