Sentences with phrase «xylose isomerase»

Stephen Hughes, Ph.D., research molecular biologist at the USDA - ARS, described an automated process for high - throughput transformation (with bacterial xylose isomerase and xylose kinase genes), mutagenesis, and screening of yeast to select for fast - growing strains optimized for anaerobic growth on xylose.

Step 3: Xylose isomerase (another enzyme) converts glucose to a mixture of about 42 % fructose and 50 — 52 % glucose with some other sugars mixed in.