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Offline angelica_26

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How would you convert fructose to glucose?
« on: February 06, 2009, 02:32:56 PM »
Hi, if I wanted to break fructose down into its basic glucose monomers, what enzyme (or other?) would I use? And is this enzyme commercially available? Also, is there a way to convert glucose into a polysachharide such as amylose or amylopectin? Thank you.  :)

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Re: How would you convert fructose to glucose?
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2009, 03:23:37 PM »
Hi, if I wanted to break fructose down into its basic glucose

Yes, there's an enzyme that does that.

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monomers,

Urm ... no, glucose is not a monomer of fructose, and fuctose is not a polymer.

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what enzyme (or other?) would I use? And is this enzyme commercially available?

Yes.

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Also, is there a way to convert glucose into a polysachharide such as amylose or amylopectin? Thank you.  :)

Urm, yes, living things do, in fact, do this all the time.  Commercially, however, building biopolymers is a little tricky.  We do have a purely chemical maens of making short proteins and oligonucleotides, but large biopolymers are usually harvested from the natural sources.

A first year college biochemistry book will probably give you all the details you'd need, in the very first couple of chapters.
Hey, I'm not judging.  I just like to shoot straight.  I'm a man of science.

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