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IT is now well known that esters of carbohydrate and phosphoric acid play an important part as intermediates in carbohydrate metabolism in both animals and plants. They were first obtained in the alcoholic fermentation of yeast; later they were found to play a part in the metabolism of muscle and other tissues. Phosphorus occurs in animal tissues in several other forms; for example, as ortho-and pyro-phosphate, as a constituent of nucleo-proteins, and in combination with creatine in muscle. It is proposed in this review to discuss only certain aspects of the metabolism of phosphoric acid esters; the formation of hexose phosphate as a step in the production of lactic acid from starch by skeletal muscle has already been mentioned in a previous article (Nov. 8, p. 740). P. Eggleton has published a review on the role of phosphorus in muscular contraction, in which reference is made to the hexose phosphates (Physiol. Reviews, vol. 9, p. 432; 1929).
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Aspects of Carbohydrate Metabolism.: III. Some Relationships with Phoshorus Metabolism. Nature 126, 936–937 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126936a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/126936a0