Effect of inhibitors on acid production by baker’s yeast
- 1 November 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Folia Microbiologica
- Vol. 23 (6), 409-422
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02885568
Abstract
Glucose-induced acid extrusion, respiration and anaerobic fermentation in baker’s yeast was studied with the aid of sixteen inhibitors. Uranyl(2+) nitrate affected the acid extrusion more anaerobically than aerobically; the complexing of Mg2+ and Ca2+ by EDTA at the membrane had no effect. Inhibitors of glycolysis (iodoacetamide, N-ethylmaleimide, fluoride) suppressed acid production markedly, and so did the phosphorylation-blocking arsenate. Fluoroacetate, inhibiting the citric-acid cycle, had no effect. Inhibition by uncouplers depended on their pKa values: 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (pKa 0.4) < 2,4-dinitrophenol (4.1) < azide (4.7) < 3-chlorophenylhydrazonomalononitrile (6.0). Inhibition by trinitrophenol was only slightly increased by its acetylation. Cyanide and nonpermeant oligomycin showed practically no effect; inhibition by dicyclohexylcarbodiimide was delayed but potent. The concentration profiles of inhibition of acid production differed from those of respiration and fermentation. Thus, though the acid production is a metabolically dependent process, it does not reflect the intensity of metabolism, except partly in the first half of glycolysis.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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