washington d c since glucose is the limiting source for the cellular growth in the human vagina and in culture media it is essential that the kinetics of glucose transport across the membrane of candida be completely understood only then can it be determined whether interference in membrane transfer might control the rate of yeast cell growth it has now been proven and universally accepted that glucose enters the interior of the yeast cell by a constitutive facilitated diffusion system cooper t j transport in sacrrharomyces cereviseiae in 34 the molecular biology of the yeast saccharaomyces 34 1982 ed by strathern j n jones e w broach j r pp 403 408 cold spring harbor laboratory n y 1982 the transport of hexoses in yeast by involving a facilitated diffusion system with a membrane protein carrier makes high capacity uptake of glucose possible lienhard g e slt w et al how cells absorb glucose scientif amer 226 86 91 1992 it is high uptake rate which facilitates the cellular growth of monilia monilia can dramatically increase its biomass in transfer of different types of sugars and discloses a marked proclivity for glucose kotyk a and janacek k cell membrane transport pp 341 plenum press n y 1975 burger investigated a number of different saccharides and concluded that they all utilize the same carrier and could produce competitive interference with one another burger m kejmova l kleinzeller a transport of somemono and disaccharides into yeast cells biochem j 71 233 1959 others have found that non metabolizable glucose analogues such as l sorbose.