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12 years ago
A hungry yeast cell lands in a vat of grape juice and begins to feast on the sugars there, producing carbon dioxide and ethanol in the process , why would the cell die if proteases start to attack the transporters?
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Inability to import sugar into the cell. Sugars have to be transported across the plasma membrane by specific transporters. Ethanol and CO2 can diffuse freely across plasma membranes. ATP cannot, and is not transported outside the cell at all.
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