“…Allitol and xylitol have been found to be the main substrates of B. pallidus, followed by D-iditol, L-arabitol, ribitol, D-arabitol, and galactitol. 4,5) In this report, we describe the structural dependency of sugar substrates in the cellular reaction of this bacterium due to -OH configurations at C2 and C3 positions of polyols, and its potential application in the production of various rare sugars.…”