Showing papers in "Annual Review of Biochemistry in 1936"

Chemistry and Metabolism of Compounds of Phosphorus

Abstract: During the past year considerable new knowledge has been added to that previously available concerning the function of phosphate compounds in metabolism. The well-known relationship between oxidation and phosphorylation has been further consolidated and extended, and some completely new reactions involving phosphate transfer have been discovered, such as the cleavage of thio-ether linkages by adenosinetriphosphate, and the ability of the latter to phosphorylate pyridoxal. Inasmuch as other chapters in this volume are devoted to nucleic acids and phospholipoids, only brief mention will be given in this chap. ter to studies dealing with these compounds. It is hardly necessary to add that European literature during the year is covered only incompletely due to the difficulty of obtaining European journals. For the same reason it has been necessary to include European publications which are one or two years old. My thanks are due to Professor J. RunnstrBm, Wennergren Institute of Experimental Biology, Stockholm, Sweden, for valuable information regarding research in Sweden during the past few years.