| saccharometabolic | Relating to saccharometabolism. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| saccharometabolism | Metabolism of sugar; the process of utilization of sugar in cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saccharometer | An instrument for ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts. Alternative forms: saccharometer. The common saccharimeter of the brewer is an hydrometer adapted by its scale to point out the proportion of saccharine matter in a solution of any specific gravity. The polarizing saccharimeter of the chemist is a complex optical apparatus, in which polarized light is transmitted through the saccharine solution, and the proportion of sugar indicated by the relative deviation of the plane of polarization. Origin: L. Saccharon sugar: cf. F. Saccharimetre. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Saccharomyces | <fungus> Genus of Ascomycetes yeasts. Normally haploid unicellular fungi that reproduce asexually by budding. Also have a sexual cycle in which cells of different mating types fuse to form a diploid zygote. Economically important in brewing and baking and are also suitable eukaryotic cells for the processes of genetic engineering and for the analysis of, for example: cell division cycle control by selecting for mutants (see cdc genes). Saccharomyces cerevisiae is baker's yeast, saccharomyces carlsbergensis is now the major brewer's yeast. See: Schizosaccharomyes pombe. (17 Dec 1997) |
| saccharomyces cerevisiae | <fungus> A species of yeast which is an important model organism for biological study, particularly for genetics and molecular biology. The entire genome of this species has been base sequenced and it is used to do research on the basic cellular mechanics of replication, recombination, cell division and metabolism. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is also economically important in the food industry, where it is used to ferment grain sugars to make beer and as baker's yeast for baking bread or making other food which requires rising by gas bubbles of carbon dioxide. It is also sometimes taken as a vitamin supplement for protein, the B vitamins, and folic acid. (17 Dec 1997) |
| Saccharomycetaceae | The family of yeasts; that group of fungi comprising the ascomycetes which possess a predominantly unicellular thallus, reproduce asexually by budding, transverse division, or both, and produce ascospores in an ascus, originating from a zygote or pathogenetically from a single somatic cell. The term yeastlike fungus is often applied to fungi that are not known to form ascospores, but otherwise possess the characteristics of yeasts; such forms are properly placed with the Fungi Imperfecti unless methods of sexual reproduction are known; e.g., Cryptococcus neoformans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Saccharomycetales | An order of mostly saprophytic ascomycetous fungi. (12 Dec 1998) |
| saccharomycetes | <biology> A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saccharomycopsis | Yeast-like ascomycetous fungi of the family saccharomycetaceae, order endomycetales isolated from the stomach of rabbits. (12 Dec 1998) |
| saccharonate | <chemistry> A salt of saccharonic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saccharone | <chemistry> A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid. An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin. Origin: Saccharin + lactone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saccharonic | <chemistry> Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharone; specifically, designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saccharopine | HOOC(CH2)2CH(COOH)NH(CH2)4CH(NH2)COOH;a derivative of alpha-ketoglutarate and l-lysine that is an intermediate in l-lysine catabolism; elevated in cases of saccharopinuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saccharopine dehydrogenase | Two enzymes that are used in the pathway of l-lysine catabolism; the first isoform catalyses the reversible conversion of l-lysine, alpha-ketoglutarate, and NADH to saccharopine and NAD+; the other isoform reversibly catalyses to conversion of saccharopine and NAD+ to l-glutamate, NADH, and l-alpha-aminoadipate d-saemialdehyde. A deficiency of one of these isoforms is associated with familial hyperlysinaemia and saccharopinuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saccharopine dehydrogenases | <enzyme> N-5-(1,3-dicarboxypropyl)-l-lysine:NAD(p)+ oxidoreductase (l-lysine-forming). Catalyses the oxidative cleavage of saccharopine to lysine plus ketoglutaric acid. Requires NAD; EC 1.5.1.8 requires NADP. Registry number: EC 1.5.1. (12 Dec 1998) |