Cell division is readily inhibited in a wide variety of cells by radiation, but the mechanisms by which this inhibition occurs and the metabolic reactions directly affected must yet be found. A preceding report (Spoerl and Looney, 1958) described changes which occurred in phosphorus compounds when division was inhibited in yeast cells by means of X-radiation. Cells continued to grow, and pentosenucleic acid and protein
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