Alcoholic Fermentation: Second Edition, 1914Harden, Arthur
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Alcoholic Fermentation: Second Edition, 1914
Harden, Arthur
Fermentation
The results of the experiments with yeast-juice therefore indicate
that what is being measured is a typical enzyme action, but afford
no information as to which of the many possible actions is the
controlling one, a fact which must be ascertained for each particular
case in the manner indicated above.
Clowes [1909], using washed zymin free from fermenting power
and adding various volumes of boiled yeast extract, found that
the velocity of reaction was proportional to the product of the
concentrations of zymin and yeast extract up to a certain optimum
concentration. He interprets these concentrations as representing
the concentrations of zymase and co-enzyme, but they also represent
the concentrations of hexosephosphatase (present in the zymin) and
phosphate (present in the yeast extract), so that at least four
factors were being altered instead of only two.
It has already been mentioned that Euler and Kullberg [1911, 3] found
the conversion of phosphate into hexosephosphate in presence of excess
of glucose to proceed according to a monomolecular reaction (p. 58).
The rate of fermentation is diminished by dilution of the yeast-juice,
but less rapidly than the concentration of the juice. Herzog found
that when the relation between concentration of enzyme and the
velocity constant of the reaction is expressed by the formula
K{1}/K{2} = (C{1}/C{2})^{/n/} where K{1} and K{2} are the velocity
constants corresponding with the enzyme concentrations C{1} and
C{2}, the value for /n/ is 2 for zymin, whilst Euler working with
yeast-juice obtained values varying from 1·29 to 1·67 and decreasing
as K increased.
The temperature coefficient of fermentation by zymin was found [p123]
by Herzog to be K{24·5°}/K{14·5°} = 2·88, which agrees well with the
value found by Slator for yeast-cells (p. 129).
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