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THE role of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in the metabolism of micro-organisms has been investigated by many authors with contradictory results, and the question has been recently reviewed by Krebs1. This author, working with yeast, concluded that the reactions of the tricarboxylic acid cycle are primarily concerned with the supply of metabolic intermediates rather than of energy.
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WIAME, J., BOURGEOIS, S. Effect of Citric Acid on the Growth of a Variant of Bacillus subtilis. Nature 172, 310–311 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172310a0
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