The Pathway of Glucose Metabolism in Zygorrhynchus moelleri

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Abstract
Starved cells were supplied with radioactive glucose for a short time, and the compounds incorporating radiocarbon were determined. Glucose was metabolized more slowly in starved cells, but the 1st appearance of radioactivity in a number of substances was of the same order of rapidity in both types of cells. The pathways involved in glucose utilization in the two types of cells showed differences, and indicated that in the starved cells there is considerable metabolic rearrangement. Using cells in different physiological conditions and labelled glucose and acetate it could be shown that the extent of recycling in the tricarboxylic acid rose when the cells were starved.