FRUCTOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fructose mean? 

• FRUCTOSE (noun)
  The noun FRUCTOSE has 1 sense:

1. a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits

  Familiarity information: FRUCTOSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUCTOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

fructose; fruit sugar; laevulose; levulose

Hypernyms ("fructose" is a kind of...):

ketohexose (a monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes glucose-6-phosphate isomerase protein, is involved in the reversible isomerization of glucose-6-phosphate and fructose-6-phosphate.

(GPI wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This enzyme is essential for the metabolism of fructose.

(Hereditary Fructose Intolerance, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a central pathway that produces important precursor metabolites: six-carbon compounds of glucose-6P and fructose-6P and three-carbon compounds of glycerone-P, glyceraldehyde-3P, glycerate-3P, phosphoenolpyruvate, and pyruvate.

(Glycolysis/Gluconeogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

F. magna cannot ferment most sugars aside from fructose and possesses various aminopeptidase activities.

(Finegoldia magna, NCI Thesaurus)

Fructose is first phosphorylated to form fructose 1-phosphate, which is then split into glyceraldehyde and dihydroxyacetone phosphate to enter glycolysis as glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate.

(Feeder Pathways for Glycolysis, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Class of oligosaccharides produced by plants that are polymers mainly comprised of fructose (generally 2 to 140) units usually with a glucose end.

(Inulin, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

After isomerization, D-ribose 5-phosphate is produced and provides the starting point for a series of reactions that converts the 5-carbon ribose into 6-carbon fructose-6-phosphate and 3-carbon glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate.

(Oxidative Reactions of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase 3, is involved in both the synthesis and degradation of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate.

(PFKFB3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase and oxidase positive, non-hemolytic, produces a yellowish pigment, reduces both nitrate and nitrite, synthesizes polysaccharides, and produces acid from glucose, maltose, fructose, and sucrose, but not mannose or lactose.

(Neisseria mucosa, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase and oxidase positive, non-hemolytic, pigmented, susceptible to colistin, produces polysaccharides from sucrose, and does not produce acid from glucose, maltose, fructose, sucrose, mannose or lactose.

(Neisseria flavescens, NCI Thesaurus)