Monosaccharides consist of a single sugar. Examples include glucose and fructose. Depending on the number of carbon atoms, the carbohydrate may be a triose, tetrose, pentose or hexose.

Scientists in Germany have engineered the common industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to ferment the sugars pentose (C5) and hexose (C6) from biomass feedstock to create ethanol and butanol.

Sugar-hungry yeast to boost biofuel production. Microbiology Society. Meeting Society for General Microbiology's Spring Meeting 2010 ...

Bakers' yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is already used in the beverage industry to efficiently convert hexose sugars, such as glucose, into ethanol.

To favor hexose formation, the team protects the free hydroxyl groups. Even so, after four days the reaction yields 40% hexose and 45% tetrose, but each is at an enantiomeric excess of at least 95%.

A research team identified SlSWEET10a (Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporter 10a) as a plasma-localized sucrose transporter that interacts with SlSWEET14, playing a crucial role in ...

Sugar-hungry yeast to boost biofuel production Date: March 29, 2010 Source: Society for General Microbiology Summary: Engineering yeast to transform sugars more efficiently into alcohols could be ...