melibiosen.
/ˌmɛlᵻˈbʌɪəʊs/, /ˌmɛlᵻˈbʌɪəʊz/, U.S. /ˌmɛləˈbaɪˌoʊz/, /ˌmɛləˈbaɪˌoʊs/ Chemistry.
A disaccharide crystalline sugar, C12H22O11, consisting of one glucose and one galactose unit, and obtainable by partial hydrolysis of raffinose.
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1889 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 56 953 This disaccharide is, therefore, not lactobiose (lactose), which it closely resembles, but a new carbohydrate, for which the author proposes the name melibiose.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 35/2 Melibiose, C12H22O11, formed, with fructose, on hydrolysing the trisaccharose melitose (or raffinose).
1948 W. Pigman Chem. Carbohydrates i. 17 The ending ‘-biose’ denotes a disaccharide, as in ‘melibiose’ and ‘gentibiose’.
1970 G. C. Whiting in A. C. Hulme Biochem. Fruits I. i. 8 Kliewer..detected trace amounts of maltose and melibiose in the grape.
1986 M. Kogut tr. H. G. Schlegel Gen. Microbiol. vii. 260 One protein is known, for example, to catalyse the simultaneous transport of a sugar molecule (lactose, melibiose, or glucose) and a proton in the same direction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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