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glucaric acid
[ gloo-kar-ik ]
Word History and Origins
Origin of glucaric acid1
Example Sentences
Producing glucaric acid the usual way—through chemical oxidation of glucose—is expensive, often yields product that isn’t very pure, and creates a lot of hazardous waste.
Prather’s team wanted to shut down the pathway nourishing growth and divert the sugar into a pathway producing glucaric acid—but only after the bacterial culture had grown enough to sustain itself as a productive chemical factory.
The glucose shifts to the chemical-synthesis pathway, greatly increasing the amount of glucaric acid produced.
That’s the approach she has taken with glucaric acid, which has multiple commercial applications, some of them green.
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