Zymase

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Zymase is the traditional name for a group of enzymes that can be obtained from yeast , among other things , with which the alcoholic fermentation of hexoses is catalyzed . In addition to yeast species, bacteria also form zymase. Sarcina ventriculi uses the same enzymatic path as yeast, while Zymomonas mobilis uses an alternative path. Pediococci and some thermophiles also provide zymases.

Zymase is also the collective name for the enzymes necessary for fermentation in yeast. The latter led Eduard Buchner to the discovery of cell-free fermentation when he investigated cell-free yeast extracts for use in medicine in 1897. For this discovery, Buchner received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1907.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Tonomura: Ethanol fermentation in bacteria. In: Seikagaku. The journal of the Japanese Biochemical Society. Gakkai, Tokyo 59.1987,10, pp. 1148-1154. ISSN  0037-1017
  2. ^ L. Stryer: Biochemistry , 3rd Edition, New York 1988, p. 349, ISBN 0-7167-1843-X .