Fucitol

General Facts
The molecular formula of fucitol is C 6 H 14 O 5. Fucitol is a sugar (fucose) alcohol that derives its name from a North Atlantic seaweed named //Fucus vesiculosus.// It has a molar mass of 166.17 grams per mol, and its thermodynamic data says it phases and behaves as a gas, solid and liquid at different temperatures. Fucitol is a sugar (Fucose) alcohol. Fucose kinase is abbreviated as fuc-K. There are proteins from the E. coli K-12 genre named Fuc-U and Fuc-R.



Fucitol
Although this sounds like what an undergraduate chemist might exclaim when their synthesis goes wrong, it's actually an alcohol, whose other names are L-fuc-ol or 1-deoxy-D-galactitol. It gets its wonderful trivial name from the fact that it is derived from the sugar fucose, which comes from a seaweed found in the North Atlantic called Bladderwrack whose latin name is //Fucus vesiculosis//. Interestingly, there are a few articles in the //Journal of Biochemistry// throughout 1997 concerning a kinase enzyme which acts on fucose. The creators of these articles were Japanese, and seemed to have missed the fact that fucose kinase should not be abbreviated as '[|fuc-K]'. Similarly, the //E. coli// K-12 Gene has other proteins that have been named [|Fuc-U] and [|Fuc-R]. Recently, the abbreviation for fucose-kinase enzyme has been cleaned up to 'FUK'. However, there are now clones of this where the cloning position in the DNA sequence is labelled by its [|Open Reading Frame] (ORF) number. And of course, these clones are called //**FUK ORF**//!