出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/10 23:35 UTC 版)
The citric acid cycle — also known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle), the Krebs cycle, or recently in certain former Soviet Bloc countries the Szent-Györgyi-Krebs cycle — is a series of enzyme-catalysed chemical reactions, which is of central importance in all living cells, especially those that use oxygen as part of cellular respiration. In eukaryotic cells, the citric acid cycle occurs in the matrix of the mitochondrion. The components and reactions of the citric acid cycle were established by discovery of Vitamin C by Hungarian Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi and continued on to its complex metabolism into energy and metabolites by Nobel laureate Hans Adolf Krebs, a German born, Jewish refugee to Britain.