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- noun biochemistry The
sugar alcohol (2R,3s,4S)-pentane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol formed by the reduction ofribose
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There are other polyols that are found in elevated concentrations during the winter, but not in the molar quantities of an antifreeze solute (the combined effect, however, is to further reduce the freezing point of the solution); these include inositol, fucitol, arabitol, zylitol, rhamnitol, and ribitol.
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Glycerol is the most common cryoprotectant, followed by sorbitol and erythritol, ribitol, threitol, and sucrose.
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E. coli generally the galacticol and ribitol/arabinitol pathways are alternatives, with only 13% having both
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhemin Zhou et al. 2010
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Reiner AM (1983) Genotypic exclusion: a novel relationship between the ribitol-arabitol and galactitol genes of E. coli.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhemin Zhou et al. 2010
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The ribitol and arabinitol utilization gene cluster, present in CB9615 only, is adjacent to the shared galacticol gene cluster.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhemin Zhou et al. 2010
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The details of the recombination event that replaced the O-antigen gene cluster and deleted the ribitol utilization gene cluster were revealed.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhemin Zhou et al. 2010
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Materials and Methods and Table S4), and we were able to allocate many of the recombinant events to a specific lineage as shown in The O-antigen-related recombination event has been recognized for some time his operon, the O-antigen gene cluster, the baeSR genes, and the galactitol utilization gene cluster, and, in CB9615 only, a ribitol and arabinitol utilization gene cluster.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhemin Zhou et al. 2010
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