Pasteur effect
Efecto Pasteur
- Date
- 1857 · confidence medium
- Place
- Lille, Hauts-de-France, France
- Credited to
- Louis Pasteur
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
A phenomenon in which available oxygen inhibits alcoholic fermentation and shifts yeast metabolism toward aerobic respiration, which produces energy more efficiently; observed by Louis Pasteur in his studies of fermentation.
What it led to
- Biochemistry of cellular energy metabolism
- Understanding of glycolysis and cellular respiration
- Control of industrial fermentation (beer, wine, bread)