Mannose and Essential Sugars need Essential Amino Acids - Body Responses
Posted: Thursday, June 29, 2006
by Dr. Brice E. Vickery
Supernutrient Corporation
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Mannose is the mother of essential sugars:
therapeutic nature of Aloe, its active ingredients are eight chains of
Mannose sugars that form the eight essential sugars ­ glucose, galactose,
mannose, fructose, xylose, N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylgalactosamine, and
N-acetylneuraminic acid. The Mannose molecules join together to form a kind
of starch (polysaccharide) known by a variety of names: acemannan,
acetylated polymannans, polymannose, or APM.
This page is on just mannose:
http://www.innvista.com/health/nutrition/essensug/mannose.htm
Mannose
Mannose appears to be the foundation of all the essential sugars. It is
involved in so many fundamental cell actions that any deficiency of this one
saccharide can lead to a host of physical problems. Called D-Mannose, this
form is now sold as a remedy for UTIs (urinary tract infections), but it is
capable of so much more. Like Xylose and Xylitol, Mannose also has its sugar
alcohol in the form known as Mannitol.
Protein is still primary because without it we cannot utilize mannose, the
human system must first convert it:
Mannose is a hexose, which means that it is a sugar with only six(6) carbons
( C6H12O6 ). The most common hexoses are glucose and fructose. Animals can
only produce energy from glucose
and fructose, so other hexoses, like mannose, have to be converted into
glucose or fructose to be useable.
For most enzymes to work with sugars, they need phosphate (-PO4) groups on
the
sugars to act as "handles". So, before mannose can be converted, hexokinase
adds a phosphate group to mannose - making it phosphomannose. Now, another
enzyme, phosphomannose isomerase, can convert phosphomannose into phospho-
fructose, so that other enzymes in the body can convert phosphofructose into
energy. So hexokinase phosphorylates mannose, so that phosphomannose
isomerase
can convert it into phosphofructose, which the body can use for energy.
Notice how much of each of these enzymes is lysine.
Human protein: Q8NHZ6 Harvester
Mannose phosphate isomerase isoform
Enzyme involved in synthesis of mannose
267 AA 134 EAA 50% EAA (26% of EAA lysine)
C 3
F 13
H 11
I 15
K 18
L 35
M 7
R 5
T 6
V 13
W 3
Y 5
Human protein P52790 Swiss-Prot
Hexokinase type III
Hexokinase (HK) is an enzyme present in muscle and other tissues. It
catalyzes the phosphorylation (adding a phosphor group) of glucose and other
hexoses to form a hexose 6-phosphate.
Hexokinase III heavily inhibited by excessive glucose
923 AA 467 EAA 50% (23% EAA lysine)
C 27
F 32
H 19
I 31
K 16
L 110
M 22
R 59
T 49
V 88
W 5
Y 9
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