释义 |
Melitose
Mel´i`tose`
n. | 1. | (Chem.) A variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, extracted from cotton seeds and from the so-called Australian manna (a secretion of certain species of Eucalyptus). |
melitose
melitose[′mel·ə‚tōs] (biochemistry) raffinose melitose
raf·fi·nose (raf'i-nōs), A dextrorotatory trisaccharide, occurring in cotton seed and in the molasses of beet root, composed of d-galactose, d-glucose, and d-fructose and formed by transfer of d-galactose from UDP-d-galactose to sucrose; many seeds are rich in raffinose. Synonym(s): gossypose, melitose, melitrioseThesaurusSeeraffinose |