sugar (ˈʃʊɡə) n 1. (Elements & Compounds) Also called: sucrose or saccharose a white crystalline sweet carbohydrate, a disaccharide, found in many plants and extracted from sugar cane and sugar beet: it is used esp as a sweetening agent in food and drinks. Formula: C12H22O11...
A disaccharide containing two glucose molecules.Carbohydrates:Carbohydrates include sugars and starches. The monomers of carbohydrates are monosaccharides, which are single rings of carbon. The most common monosaccharide is glucose. Most carbohydrates are made up of many monosaccharides joined toget...
The sugars contained in all sugary beverages are primarily the monosaccharides glucose and fructose or the disaccharide sucrose, which is quickly broken down with digestion and metabolized into equal parts fructose and glucose. In recent years, public health efforts to promote a reduction in the ...
Sucrose – common table sugar A crystalline disaccharide of fructose and glucose, C12H22O11, found in many plants but extracted as ordinary sugar mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets, widely used as a sweetener.(Source) Table sugar (including raw sugar, caster sugar and icing sugar – though ...
An alternative route to glycogen depends on the maltosyltransferase GlgE that uses the disaccharide α-maltose-1-phosphate as the building block to extend glucan chains. The glgE pathway was discovered in Mycobacterium tuberculosis14 and represents the sole route to glycogen biosynthesis in ...
Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been considered as the preferred yeast for ethanol fermentation, and can grow on simple sugars such as glucose, and on the disaccharide sucrose. However, more species of yeasts have been reported as being able to produce not only ethanol but also some highly-sought-...
The reducing end of the disaccharide is stabilized by a π-π interaction with the aromatic ring of Trp482. After the substrate being docked and the complex being solvated it shows an initial equilibration phase with rather high fluctuations of the observed binding energies and quite large changes...
Type 1 HMOs contain lacto-N-biose subunits, while type II HMOs contain N-acetyllactosamine disaccharide units at their core (Table 1). Further structural diversity is brought about by the addition of fucose and sialic acid residues at the terminal positions. Composition of HMO varies between ...
APCKJ1 was shown to reach its highest level of cell density following growth on lactose (OD600nm > 3.0), while also reaching high optical densities following growth on the monosaccharides glucose, ribose, sorbitol, as well as the disaccharide melibiose and the trisaccharide raffinose. Good ...
Trehalose is a disaccharide in fungi that has similar roles to sucrose in plants. In contrast to other sequenced plant genomes, most orchid genomes have multiple copies of trehalase genes (Supplementary Table 34), which digest a molecule of trehalose into two molecules of glucose (d-1). The ...