An Evolutionary Perspective on the Crabtree Effect

The capability to ferment sugars into ethanol is a key metabolic trait of yeasts. Crabtree-positive yeasts use fermentation even in the presence of oxygen, where they could, in principle, rely on the respiration pathway. This is surprising because fermentation has a much lower ATP yield than respira...

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Main Authors: Thomas ePfeiffer, Annabel eMorley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmolb.2014.00017/full