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Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) was cultivated under different intensities of aeration on glucose and on ethanol. Seventeen enzymes of the Embden-Meyerhof pathway and the TCA cycle or related reactions were then assayed by starch gel electrophoresis. There were both qualitative and quantitative differences in many enzymes, most notably in glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, alcohol dehydrogenase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, and fumarase. Enzyme electrophoresis seems to offer a promising method for rapidly obtaining information about many yeast enzymes from a large number of samples.
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Saura, A., Lokki, J., Oura, E. et al. Qualitative yeast enzyme analysis by electrophoresis. European J. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 7, 355–364 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00499850
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