Definition of Cellobiose

1. Noun. (carbohydrates) A disaccharide, found only as a repeat unit in cellulose, in which two glucose units are joined with a 1, 4-? linkage ¹

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Definition of Cellobiose

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Medical Definition of Cellobiose

1. Reducing disaccharide composed of two D glucose moieties beta 1, 4 linked. The disaccharide subunit of cellulose, though not found as a free compound in vivo. (26 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cellobiose

celled
cellevision
celli
cellicolous
celliferous
celliform
cellifugal
celling
cellist
cellists
cellmate
cellmates
cello
cellobiase
cellobiohydrolase
cellobiose (current term)
cellobiose oxidase
cellobioses
cellobiosidase
cellobioside
cellodextrin phosphorylase
cellohexose
celloidin
celloidins
cellolike
cellomics
cellon
cellona
cellopentaose
cellophane

Literary usage of Cellobiose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1917)
"cellobiose. cellobiose is the name given to a disaccharide obtained by the hydrolysis of cellulose (see p. 135). MYCOSE OR TREHALOSE. ..."

2. The Simple Carbohydrates and the Glucosides by Edward Frankland Armstrong (1912)
"cellobiose is not affected by the enzymes of yeast, but is slowly hydrolysed by Aspergillus niger or by kephir lactase. Bertrand and Compton have ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1915)
"They obtained products ranging from cellulose acetates down to cellobiose acetates, but in no case could they obtain glucose acetates, although Klein looked ..."

4. Researches on Cellulose III (1905-1910) by Charles Frederick Cross, Edward John Bevan (1912)
"cellobiose UNO DIE ... or cellobiose in relation to the sugars, and more particularly to constitutional problems in the cellulose group, the author has ..."

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