Warburg-Dickens-Horecker pathway

As a tribute to the biochemists who have played a decisive role in its investigation, the pentose phosphate cycle is also referred to as the Warburg-Dickens-Horecker pathway. 

Warburg-Dickens-Horecker pathway see Pentose phosphate cycle. 

The metabolism of pentoses has been studied in detail only recently, chiefly of ribose and to a lesser extent deoxyribose. Horecker and his coworkers (H7) have considered the steps in the hexose monophosphate shunt, and the pentose oxidative or Warburg-Dickens-Lipmann pathway. It appears that this pathway is the source of the pentose moiety of nucleotides, ribonucleic acid, and deoxyribonucleic acid. It is also undoubtedly the source of the small amounts of ribulose in normal urine. 

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