D-Fucose (6-deoxy-D-galactose rhodeose) may be used to study enzymes involved in its mutarotation to form L-fucose.[2]It may be used as a reference compound in the analysis of carbohydrate metabolites. D-Fucose may be used to study biological processes such as adhesion.

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D-Fucose is a hexose deoxy sugar found on N-linked glycans that appears on the cell surface of mammalian and plant cells. D-Fucose is also the building block of fucoidan polysaccharide an sulfated polysaccharide found in various species of brown algae.