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Respiration and fermentation in cultures of Schizosaccharomyces pombe were studied under various growth conditions. It was found that during the transition from exponential growth to stationary phase, the rate of fermentation decreases whereas the rate of oxygen uptake remains unchanged. Thus, no activation of respiration in stationary phase was found. When exponentially multiplying cells are deprived of nitrogen, the rate of oxygen uptake increases whereas the rate of fermentation is somewhat lowered. Therefore, in S.pombe, cessation of growth, whether induced by stationary phase conditions or by nitrogen starvation, results in suppression of fermentation and thus induction of a more aerobic mode of metabolism.
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Hamburger, K., Kramhøft, B. Respiration and fermentation during growth and starvation in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Carlsberg Res. Commun. 47, 405–411 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02907779
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