XYLOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does xylose mean? 

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

1. a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• XYLOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

wood sugar; xylose

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

carbohydrate; saccharide; sugar (an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain)

 Context examples 

This species is catalase positive, oxidase negative, nonsporulating, hydrolyzes esculin and produces acid from glucose and D xylose.

(Listeria ivanovii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is hydrogen sulfide positive, citrate and oxidase negative and produces acid from L arabinose and D xylose but not dulcitol.

(Leminorella richardii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase positive, urease negative, slightly beta-hemolytic weekly ferments xylose.

(Dermatophilus congolensis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase positive, ferments glucose and variably ferments xylose and does not reduce nitrate.

(Dermabacter hominis, NCI Thesaurus)

They also discovered that the molecule xylose isomerase (Xi), a protein that breaks down sugar and is found in L. brevis, may be critical to this process.

(Gut bacteria may control movement, National Institutes of Health)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase, lysine and ornithine decarboxylase positive, oxidase, urease, lipase, protease, and indole negative, reduces nitrate, hydrolyzes esculin, and ferments mannitol and xylose.

(Escherichia albertii, NCI Thesaurus)

These polymers can be linear or branched and consist of glucose, arabinose, mannose, xylose and galacturonic acid.

(Hemicellulose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

The first GalNAc may be extended with sugars including galactose, N-acetylglucosamine, fucose, or sialic acid, but not mannose, glucose, or xylose.

(O-Glycan Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

This species is motile by peritrichous flagella, asporogenous, catalase positive, oxidase negative, produces acid from D glucose and D xylose and hydrolyzes esculin.

(Listeria seeligeri, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, nonsporeforming, catalase and indole negative and ferments arabinose, xylose, ribose, lactose and melezitose.

(Bifidobacterium longum, NCI Thesaurus)