Index 



343 



2-Keto-myo-inositol, 182, 190 

 Ketoinositol dehydrase, 192 

 Knorr condensation in porphyrin syn- 

 thesis, 251 

 Krebs-Henseleit cycle inhibition, 177 



Lactic acid as glycogen precursor, 292 



Leucine, 22, 26, 32 



Leucovorin, 52, 53 



L-Leucylglycine, 114 



Leukemia in mice, 125 



Limit dextrin, 293 



Lipides, 133 



Lipogenesis vs. glycogenesis, 305 



Lipoproteins, 75 



Lwoff effect, 36 



L3'sogeny, 35 



Malic acid, 229 

 Marasmic acid, 3 

 Matricaria ester, 5 

 Membranes, bacterial, 97 

 Metals, role in catalysis, 234 

 p-Methoxytetrachlorophenol, 4 

 5-Methoxy-p-toluquinone, 2 

 l-Methyl-l,2-cyclopentanophenan- 



threne, 310 

 5-Methylcytosine, 18 

 3-Methyl-6-ethylpiperidine, 309 

 /3-Methylglutaconic acid (MGA), 29, 



31 

 3-Methyl-5-hydroxy-6-ethylpyridine, 



309 

 3-Methyl-5-hydroxypyridine, 309 

 /3-methyl vinylacetic acid (MVA), 29 

 Milk factor, 123 

 Mitochondria, 14, 133, 137 



Nemotin, 4, 7 



Nemotinic acid, 4 



Neurospora crassa, inositol-requiring 



mutant of, 192 

 Nitrogen mustards, as inducing agents, 

 101 



effect on transforming principle, 335 

 Nitrogen sparing, 175 

 Nitrogen transfer, 216 

 Nuclear synthesis, in bacteria, 79 



in frog embryos, 120 



Nucleic acid, 47, 323 



fragments, 40 



in cancer, 127 

 Nucleoproteins, 17, 74 



Ochracic acid, 4, 9 



Ogston hypothesis, 157, 232 



Optical activity, 156 



in electron excitation, 235 

 Ornithine cycle, 216 

 Orotic acid, 224 

 Osmotic efficiency, 61 

 Ovalbumin, 113 

 Oxalacetic acid, 229 



in porphyrin synthesis, 297 

 Oxidation, by enzymes, 239 



deamination, 227 



deficiency in cancer, 122 



Pantothenic acid, 109, 110 



Papain, 114 



Paramagnetism of enzyme-substrate 



complex, 239 

 Pentahydroxycyclohexanes, 191 

 Peptide bonds, 107 



charge density of, 237 

 Peptides, free, 113 



rearrangement of, 278 



stepwise degradation of, 279 

 Perhydrofiuorene system, 319 

 Periodic acid oxidation, of inositols, 

 183 



in shikimic acid degradation, 260 

 Peroxides, as inducing agents, 53, 101 

 Phenaceturic acid, 133 

 Phenanthrene, 309 

 Phosphate-bond energy, 218 

 Phosphorylase attack on glycogen, 293, 



304 

 Pinosylvin, 11 

 Plasma substitutes, 56 

 Pleuromutilin, 4, 9 

 Polyacetylenes, 4 

 Polysaccharides as plasma substitutes, 



57 

 Polysugar phosphates, in transforma- 

 tion phenomenon, 320 

 Polyvinylpyrrolidone as plasma substi- 

 tute, 59 

 Porphyrins, 241 



