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. 2018 Sep 17;11:248. doi: 10.1186/s13068-018-1246-1

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Fig. 1 — Two common xylose metabolism pathways in microorganisms. Xylose can be directly converted to xylulose by a xylose isomerase (XI) or converted to xylitol by a xylose reductase (XR). Xylitol is then converted to xylulose by a xylitol dehydrogenase (XD). Both the XR and XD reactions require co-factors. Xylulose is then converted to xylulose-5-phosphate by an ATP-dependent xylulose kinase (XK)