Medical Definition of Pasteur effect
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Decrease in the rate of carbohydrate breakdown that occurs in yeast and other cells when switched from anaerobic to aerobic conditions. Results from a relatively slow flux of material through the biochemical pathways of respiration compared with those of fermentation.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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