The purpose of this work is to characterize chemical compounds added to an ingested soda by (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance ((1)H NMR) spectroscopy and by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in the electron impact mode. A second point was to highlight possible metabolic disturbances by considering urinary profile. Without any pretreatment, dimethylphtalate, 2-butanone, and 2,2,4-trimethylpenta...

DL-Malic acid-grown cells of the yeast Hansenula anomala formed a saturable transport system that mediated accumulative transport of L-malic acid with the following kinetic parameters at pH 5.0: Vmax, 0.20 nmol.s-1.mg (dry weight)-1; Km, 0.076 mM L-malate. Uptake of malic acid was accompanied by proton disappearance from the external medium with rates that followed Michaelis-Menten kinetics as ...

Liu, Pinghui V. (University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.). Factors that influence toxigenicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Bacteriol. 88:1421-1427. 1964.-Hemolysin, lecithinase, and protease of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were produced with cellophane-covered plates and completely synthetic agar of simple composition containing alpha-alanine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glucose, and salts. The...

The metabolism of fatty acids involves the production of acetyl coenzyme A and its condensation with oxalacetate for complete oxidation in the citric acid cycle. The availability of oxalacetate can determine the extent of metabolism via the Krebs cycle (1). In the presence of a low level of oxalacetate in the liver, fatty acid metabolism should produce an excess of ketone bodies. Previously (2)...