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xylose

[zahy-lohs] / ˈzaɪ loʊs /


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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

After 300 days and hundreds of generations of mutating E. coli, the xylose was gone.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2019

Perhaps this means that xylose isomerase decreases the availability of a glucose substrate needed for the synthesis of trehalose.

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