On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey@gmail.com> wrote:
> To address sugar, try knocking down sucrase expression, perhaps using modified plant miRNAs, and give yourself an upper tract probiotic that produces levansucrase. Undigested sucrose is probably poorly digested, and the conversion of sucrose to levan (a prebiotic/gut conditioner) turns a poison into a mild beneficial compound.
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> Alternatively, omit the levansucrase part: cramping and diarrhea from undigested sucrose will teach you to stop drinking coke in the first place.
Re: coke and sucrose content:
It says here (on page 205, in case the link doesn't load right), that
sucrose has a tendency to invert (sucrose -> glucose + fructose) quite
a bit at room-temp (a few temp curves presented):
http://books.google.com/books?id=EiD7ZPwIIEcC&pg=PA205#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
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