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AN investigation of the soluble nucleotides in food yeast (Torulopsis utilis) has shown that a complex metabolic pool of these compounds is maintained in growing cells. Marked changes in the size and composition of this pool under different physiological conditions indicate that the metabolism of nucleotides is closely related to the biosynthesis of nucleic acids and proteins. Some evidence has been obtained that, in exponentially growing cells, certain of the nucleotides occur in combination with amino-acids or simple peptides.
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GILBERT, D., YEMM, E. Soluble Nucleotides and Nucleotide—Amino-Acid Compounds of Yeast. Nature 182, 1745–1746 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821745b0
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