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Xylose metabolism in (A) Xylitol non-producers and (B) Xylitol producer. Prokaryotes are able to oxidize xylose directly to xylulose in the presence of xylose isomerase (Pathway A) while in eukaryotes, this conversion proceeds with xylitol as an intermediate product (Pathway B).
