142 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Oxygen consumption, 



decrease of, by heat shocks, 77 

 gradients of, during development, 



65 

 of RNase-treated cells, 37, 39 



Palade's small granules, 20 

 Pancreas, 



RNA content, 4, 7 

 specific enzymes in microsomes of, 

 20 

 Parthenogenesis, "second factor" in, 



56,57 

 Pea roots, amino acid incorporation 



into proteins of, 23, 24, 37 

 Peptides, 44, 46 

 pH (see Shocks, pH) 

 Phage, 



analogy between — infection and 



fertilization, 55 

 inhibition of, by RNase, 42 

 Phenylalanine, 

 incorporation of, 

 and basophilia, 5 

 into proteins, 39, 40, 99, 100, 

 107 

 Phosphorus, incorporation, into RNA 



87 

 Phosphorylase, synthesis, in enu- 

 cleated Acetabularia, 120 

 Phosphorylation (see Oxidative) 

 Pilocarpine, 48 

 Pinocytosis, 39, 40, 41, 86 

 Pituitary, specific enzymes in micro- 

 somes of, 20 

 Plants, 



incorporation in, 



of amino acids into proteins, 22, 



23,25 

 of uridine into nucleolar RNA, 

 99 

 viruses, role of RNA in, 25-30, 43 

 Polar lobes, 127 

 Polyspermy, 78 

 Polytomella coeca, 8, 1 7, 24 

 Potassium ions, 24 

 Protease, 

 eff"ects on. 



of RNase, 40 

 of enucleation, 106 

 in microsomes, 20 

 Proteins, 



metabolism of, after enucleation, 

 in Acetabularia, 116-125 

 in amoebae, 105-108 

 in plant viruses, 26 

 ribonucleoproteins (see Ribonucleo- 



proteins) 

 synthesis, 



biochemical mechanisms, 44-49, 



130,131 

 role in, 



of DNA, 31, 130,131 

 of microsomes, 19-25 

 of mitochondria, 44 

 of nucleus (see Nuclei, role) 

 of RNA, 1-49, 130,131 

 in living cells, 30-44 

 Proteolytic enzymes, 

 cell dissociation by, 85 

 eff'ects of RNase on, 40 

 Protoplasts of bacteria, 32 

 Purines and pyrimidines, 

 effects on RNase by synthetic poly- 

 nucleotides of, 40 

 stimulation by, 



of induced enzyme synthesis, 3 1 

 of protein and nucleic acid syn- 

 thesis, 8 

 Pyrimidines (see Purines) 



Rana, 83 



Rat, 21 



Red blood cells, 



amino acid incorporation into, 5, 

 125 



role of RNA in protein synthesis in, 

 20 

 Regeneration, in Acetabularia^ 112, 



113 

 Reptiles, RNA gradients in eggs of, 66 

 Residual bodies, metabolically in- 

 active RNA in, of testes, 6 

 Residual proteins, 128 

 "Resynthesis" in Tobacco mosaic 



virus, 28 



