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IN a recent communication in Nature1, it was pointed out that the shift of equilibrium between extracellular and intracellular potassium during fermentation of sugar either by yeast or bacteria2,3 was a striking example of the general application of certain principles underlying the accumulation of potassium in cells4,5,6,7. If our views as to the nature of such in and out movement during fermentation are correct, it should occur with other cations besides the potassium ion, provided they can diffuse across the cell membrane, or in other words, it should not be specific for potassium.
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CONWAY, E., O'MALLEY, E. Linkage of Physico-Chemical Processes in Biological Systems. Nature 151, 252 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151252a0
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