xylodextrin

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English

Etymology

From xylo- +‎ dextrin.

Noun

xylodextrin (plural xylodextrins)

  1. (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, volume 8, →DOI:
      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.