Talk:Trehalose

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[edit] Glycemic response

Any information as to whether or not this substance causes a glycemic response (spikes your blood sugar) like sucrose, or if it attenuates this response? 0-0-0-Destruct-0 03:02, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Good question - wish I could remember off the top of my head. Trehalase in the gut is the determining step for breakdown into glucose. Its on the villi. Deficiency is rare. It would be the question of rate of release. GraemeLeggett 08:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Xerobiosis

Xerobiosis, Is this a real term? Googling it only brings forth two results, both of them mentioned in Wikipedia entries.--Hooperbloob 03:17, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Added a bit of text based on my own memories of working with the stuff. GDL 1 Feb 2005

[edit] Haworth projection

Can we get this molecule in the haworth projection? Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 139.62.210.57 (talk)

Done. Welcome to Wikipedia, by the way! Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


Hi, I think the Haworth projection is incorrect. The 2nd sugar should be a-D-glucose but the stereochemistry is inverted. I'll see if I can fix it later unless someone else does it first. I'm not sure what the formating is though. See http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/2carb/36.html for an image of trehalos —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.32.50.98 (talk) 00:16, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use in Plant Engineering

The gene for trehalose synthesis was inserted into plants (both chloroplast and nuclear engineering) to investigate use in drought resistance. Rather successful, though it had some effects on growth etc when inserted into nuclear genome. Worthy of addition, under "Biotech. Apps", or perhaps a simple mention? Geno-Supremo (talk) 20:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)