Deternination of metabolic pathways in whole cells by the technique of simultaneous adaptation can be misleading unless, as Stanier (1947) cautioned, one is aware of permeability problems. It is now apparent that cell permeability to postulated intermediates cannot be tested by 1 This investigation was supported in part by a research grant
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