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Pulver and Verzár1 have recently reported that the up-take of glucose by the yeast cell is accompanied by a simultaneous up-take of potassium, and that the latter is liberated again in the course of fermentation. It appears to me that this result has some bearing on the interpretation of certain other findings concerning the relation of potassium to carbohydrate metabolism.
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LASNITZKI, A. Potassium and Carbohydrate Metabolism. Nature 146, 99–100 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146099b0
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