xylodextrin
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]xylodextrin (plural xylodextrins)
- (biochemistry) An oligomer of xylose.
- 2015 August 16, Xin Li et al., “Cellobionic acid utilization: from Neurospora crassa to Saccharomyces cerevisiae”, in Biotechnology for Biofuels[1], volume 8, :
- These are then transported into the cells by cellodextrin and xylodextrin transporters and—in the case of xylodextrins—reduced before they are further processed to monomeric sugars by intracellular hydrolases.