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Investigation of the significance of a carbon and redox balanced to the measurement of gaseous metabolism of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Author(s) -
Barford J. P.,
Hall R. J.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
biotechnology and bioengineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.136
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1097-0290
pISSN - 0006-3592
DOI - 10.1002/bit.260210407
Subject(s) - saccharomyces cerevisiae , redox , metabolism , chemistry , biochemistry , environmental chemistry , carbon fibers , saccharomyces , yeast , organic chemistry , materials science , composite number , composite material
A complete carbon and redox balance for Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown in batch culture with ethanol as the limiting carbon and energy source is reported. A novel method, which allowed the determination of carbon dioxide contained in the culture medium and biomass, is described and revealed amounts considerably in excess of what was expected from equilibrium data. Furthermore, elemental composition of the biomass was used to calculate the amount of oxygen required for biosynthetic reactions. When these corrections are applied to experimentally measured gas metabolism data, apparently anomalous results are shown to be consistent with the overall metabolism of bakers' yeast. These findings have wide implications to the quantitative study of the metabolism and energetics of facultative aerobes.