CELL RESPIRATION

Abstract

IT has been said by Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins that among the most fundamental of the dynamic chemical events related to life are the oxidations which yield energy to the cell. The study of the mechanism of cell oxidations does indeed seem to be developing into a main route to the understanding of the biochemical basis of life processes. This explains why so many biochemists are now devoting their energies to these problems, as the flood of individual publications shows. But whereas there are numerous excellent compilations on other similar fields, such as the vitamins, for example, collected opinions on respiratory mechanisms are comparatively few, and mostly the published accounts have been presented in support of one particular point of view.

A Symposium on Respiratory Enzymes

Otto Meyerhof Eric G. Ball Fritz Lipmann Kurt G. Stern Fritz Schlenk T. R. Hogness Elmer Stotz Carl F. Cori E. A. Evans Jr. Philip P. Cohen K. A. C. Elliott Dean Burk C. J. Kensler Erwin Haas H. M. Kalckar M. J. Johnson R. Potter H. G. Wood R. H. Burris C. H. Werkman P. W. Wilson F. F. Nord Ephraim Shorr A. E. Axelrod Frederick Bernheim E. S. G. Barron Frederick J. Stare. Pp. xii + 281. (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1942). 3 dollars.