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FRUCTOSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits
Synonyms:
fructose; fruit sugar; laevulose; levulose
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fructose" is a kind of...):
ketohexose (a monosaccharide having six carbon atoms and a ketone group)
Context examples:
This species is nonmotile, nonhemolytic, produces acid from maltose, beta D fructose and D trehalose, reduces nitrate, produces acetoin, catalase and oxidase positive and urease negative.
(Macrococcus caseolyticus, NCI Thesaurus)
This species is oxidase positive, reduces nitrite, but not nitrate, produces carbonic anhydrase, does not hydrolyze tributyrin, is non-hemolytic, and does not produce acid from glucose, maltose, fructose, sucrose, mannose, or lactose.
(Neisseria cinerea, NCI Thesaurus)
An oligosaccharide composed of fructose units.
(Fructooligosaccharide, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
This species is sporeforming, motile by flagella, indole negative, nonhemolytic, does not hydrolyze esculin and produces acid from glucose, mannose, fructose and galactose.
(Clostridium symbiosum, NCI Thesaurus)
Boronophenylalanine-fructose complex is injected into a blood vessel and collects in tumor cells.
(Boronophenylalanine-fructose complex, NCI Dictionary)
This species is motile, non-spore forming, esculin positive, forms butyrate, produces abundant amounts of hydrogen, and utilizes glucose, cellobiose, melezitose, fructose, sucrose, raffinose, melibiose, starch, and inulin, but not glycerol.
(Eubacterium rectale, NCI Thesaurus)
A boronated phenylalanine complexed with fructose to increase its solubility.
(Boronophenylalanine-fructose complex, NCI Thesaurus)
This bacteria is catalase and urease negative, oxidase variable, does not require X factor and acid is produced from glucose, fructose and mannose.
(Aggregatibacter aphrophilus, NCI Thesaurus)
When fructose forms a ring an additional ""anomeric"" asymmetric carbon is created which is denoted as ""alpha"" or ""beta"".
(Fructose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
This bacteria is non motile, catalase and oxidase positive, does not hydrolyze ortho nitrophenyl beta galactosidase, urease negative and acid is produced from glucose, maltose, mannose and fructose.
(Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, NCI Thesaurus)
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