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Connexion between Carbohydrate and Potassium Metabolism in the Yeast Cell

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WILLSTÄTTER and co-workers1 have shown that if glucose is added to a suspension of yeast cells, it disappears from solution and is built up into a polysaccharide (glycogen), inside the yeast cells. Only after this (in about ten minutes time) does the fermentation begin, as tested by the production of carbon dioxide.

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  1. Willstätter, R., and Rohdewald, M., Enzymologia, 8, 1 (1940).

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  2. Verzár, F., and Somogyi, J. C., NATURE, 144, 1014 (1939); 145, 781 (1940).

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  1. Physiological Institute, University of Basle, Switzerland

    R. PULVER & F. VERZÁR

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PULVER, R., VERZÁR, F. Connexion between Carbohydrate and Potassium Metabolism in the Yeast Cell. Nature 145, 823–824 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145823a0

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