Mou et al. (2022) showed that ribose selectively glycates some lysine residues in bovine serum albumin (BSA) in comparison to glucose. Animal studies have also demonstrated high blood ribose levels in Zucker diabetic fatty rats (Chen et al., 2017), streptozotocin (STZ)-induced type 1 diabetes (T1D) rats (Yu et al., 2019), STZ-induced type 2 diabetes (STZ-T2D) rats (unpublished data), and Goto–Kakizaki (GK) rats (Cao et al., 2022) compared to controls. The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is type 2 diabetes mellitus.