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5-Thio-D-glucose

≥98.0% (HPLC)

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C6H12O5S
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
196.22
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
1865193
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352201
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.25

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Quality Level

assay

≥98.0% (HPLC)

form

powder

optical activity

[α]/D 220.0±5.0°, c = 1 in 0.1 M HCl

color

white to off-white

mp

135-138 °C (lit.)

SMILES string

OC[C@H]1S[C@H](O)[C@H](O)[C@@H](O)[C@@H]1O

InChI

1S/C6H12O5S/c7-1-2-3(8)4(9)5(10)6(11)12-2/h2-11H,1H2/t2-,3-,4+,5-,6+/m1/s1

InChI key

KNWYARBAEIMVMZ-DVKNGEFBSA-N

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Application

5-Thio-D-glucose (Glc-5S), a thiosugar hexokinase inhibitor, is used to control/reduce the rate of glycolysis in vivo.

Biochem/physiol Actions

Potent, competitive inhibitor of the cellular transport of D-glucose and of D-glucose mediated insulin release.[1][2] Inhibitor of spermatogenesis.[3]

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Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk_germany

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

Eyeshields, Gloves, type N95 (US)


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Metal ions in biological systems, 37, 365-405 (2000-02-29)
L M Raamsdonk et al.
Yeast (Chichester, England), 18(11), 1023-1033 (2001-08-02)
In previous studies it was shown that deletion of the HXK2 gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae yields a strain that hardly produces ethanol and grows almost exclusively oxidatively in the presence of abundant glucose. This paper reports on physiological studies on
K D Brady et al.
The Journal of heredity, 72(5), 347-350 (1981-09-01)
5-thio-D-glucose at 40 mg/kg body weight was administered daily by intraperitoneal injections to male C3H mice. The animals were studied via direct counts of the spermatogenic cells in histologic sections of the testes. These revealed the selective loss or injury
Ambrose A Dunn-Meynell et al.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 29(21), 7015-7022 (2009-05-29)
Although several studies implicate small declines in blood glucose levels as stimulus for spontaneous meal initiation, no mechanism is known for how these dips might initiate feeding. To assess the role of ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) (arcuate plus ventromedial nucleus) glucosensing
B He et al.
Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (New York, N.Y.), 217(2), 168-172 (1998-02-06)
5-Thioglucose (5-TG) has been shown to increase food intake after acute administration. To determine the longer-term effects of 5-TG on feeding and body composition, thirty-four female Sprague-Dawley rats were cannulated into the fourth ventricle and infused with artificial CSF and

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