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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.Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID: 2256682 DOI: 10.1007/bf00548935
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek ISSN: 0003-6072 Impact factor: 2.271