xylose
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In the wild, the yeast strain of interest, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, prefers glucose and lacks the ability to metabolize xylose.
From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024
Other scientists have used genetic engineering to alter the yeast so that it also consumes xylose, but these engineered strains still prefer glucose, reducing their overall efficiency in ethanol production.
From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024
The team started with basically a starvation diet of xylose, a sugar, along with formate and CO2.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2019
Schretter et al. found that the walking activity of flies that lacked gut bacteria but had been given xylose isomerase was increased by activation of the genes encoding enzymes needed for the synthesis of octopamine.
From Nature • Oct. 23, 2018
The wound gums, for example, yield arabinose, and the wood gums yield xylose.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
