d-glucose

[ dee-gloo-kohs ]

noun

, Biochemistry.

1. glucose1

Word History and Origins

Origin of d-glucose¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

They use D-glucose as a cheap and widely available primary source to produce D-allose.

From Salon

A team at MIT lead by Alison Wendlandt recently showed in the journal Nature how to make D-allose from D-glucose in only one step with a little more than 40 percent in yield — about 16 times improvement from the current process.

From Salon

They first demonstrated that the same set of amino-acid residues in PfHT1 is required to bind d-glucose and d-fructose.

From Nature

But whereas these specialize in the transport of either d-glucose or d-fructose, PfHT1 transports both of these sugars, and some others, with comparable efficiency.

From Nature

Qureshi et al. resolved the 3D structure of PfHT1 in which d-glucose is captured in the sugar-binding site, and found that the protein was in a fully occluded conformation — that is, the transporter protein completely shielded the sugar from the aqueous environments on either side of the cell membrane.

From Nature