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Trehalose in yeast, stress protectant rather than reserve carbohydrate
1Department of Botany, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
Trehalose and glycogen are generally regarded as the two main reserve carbohydrates in yeast. However, several lines of evidence suggest that trehalose does not primarily function as a reserve but as a highly efficient protecting agent to maintain structural integrity of the cytoplasm under environmental stress conditions.