Biochemical Activities of Pantothenate in Microorganisms

The metabolic role of pantothenate is not yet defined but effects of deficiencies in pantothenate, on over-all processes of respiration and 

The yield of carbon dioxide from the anaerobic reaction with pyruvate was about 0.75 mole per mole of pyruvate reacting, which was intermediate between those required for the two known bacterial reactions 2 pyruvate — lactate -1- acetate -H carbon dioxide (49), and pyruvate — acetate and formate (7,49). When fmnarate was added, the yield became one 

The reactions of Table V in each case proceeded with definite velocity in the absence of added pantothenate. If it is supposed that these blank  

Estimates of Tuenover Numbers of Pantothenate in Pyruvate Metabolism, AND OP Pantothenate Content op Deficient Cells  

Substance measured Change in substance (mole/hr.) catalysed by 1 mole of pantothenate Hate of change without added pantothenate, MM/hr./mg. dry wt. Pantothenate required to cause ohange. rngM/mg. dry wt. 

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