Observación del efecto reductor de N-Acetilcisteína en el metabolismo de levaduras

ROMO MANZINI M.; CHAPELA S.P.; STELLA C.A.; BURGOS H.H., ALONSO M.

Journal of Biochemistry Education

Educational Innovations

Lugar: Brasil; Año: 2016 vol. 14 p. 1 - 9

2318-8790

The research focuses on the design of experimental teaching using readily available materials and simple methodsto implement. It arises as an example for learning, using baker´s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, because it hasmany of the metabolic pathways existing in mammalian cells. In this paper it was developed an essay that allowstudents to observe macroscopically the capacity of N- Acetyl cysteine (NAC) to stimulate the reducing power ofyeast using indicator Methylene Blue (MB) color change.