Authors: Andrew N Lane Teresa WM Fan Richard M Higashi
Publish Date: 2008/11/20
Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 163-165
Abstract
Balancing biochemical equations for both mass and charge in metabolic networks is critical but unfortunately ignored too often Failure to do so for example results in a common misconception about the origin of protons during lactic fermentation Lactate rather than lactic acid is produced by glycolysis and its production is a mechanism for alleviating intracellular acidosis due to glycolysis This error is at the core of some recent papers and is often ambiguous in biochemistry textbooks
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