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Crabtree effect
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English
Etymology
Named after biologist Herbert Grace Crabtree, whose study of the carbohydrate metabolism of tumours led the discovery of the effect.
Noun
en biochemistry The phenomenon whereby the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae species, produces ethanol in aerobic conditions at high external glucose concentrations rather than aerobically producing biomass via the tricarboxylic acid cycle as it's common in most yeasts.
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