While performing undergraduate research on the facultative aerobe Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) you discover a mutant able to directly convert glyceraldehydes 3-phosphate into 3-phosphoglycerate, bypassing the formation of 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate and the need to make the enzyme glyceraldehydes 3-phosphate dehydrogenase altogether, shortening the glycolytic pathway by one whole step (much to the […]