English Explanatory Dictionary

Crabtree effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon whereby the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, produces ethanol in aerobic conditions at high external glucose concentrations rather than aerobically producing biomass via the tricarboxylic acid cycle as it's common in most yeasts.

Word forms

Crabtree effect Crabtree effects

Etymology

Named after biologist Herbert Grace Crabtree, whose study of the carbohydrate metabolism of tumours led the discovery of the effect.

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