In article <2h4lf5$kuj at mserv1.dl.ac.uk> SCHLOSSER at ciit.org writes:
>In <9401132045.AA17957 at net.bio.net>
>mroussel at alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
>>I'm not so sure. I would like to do the calculations but I don't know
>>how the glycerol is generated. (It would be sufficient for me to know
>>the reactants and products of the reaction.) I take it that the ethanol
>>is generated by anaerobic fermentation.
>>Based on the measured fluxes, the stoichiometry is approximately:
>>glucose -> 1.41(ethanol + CO2) + 0.24glycerol + "polysaccharides"
Unfortunately, it's impossible to do a proper equilibrium
calculation with this sort of specification, at least using methods
known to me. It's too vague. (Needless to say, I would be most
interested in hearing about methods that make this tractable.)
Marc R. Roussel
mroussel at alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
