ISSN:
1617-4623
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Summary 1. In S. carlsbergensis 25 recessive mal 6-mutants were isolated, which did not complement each other in any combination. Maltose induces maltase and a maltose transport system in the wild type but not in the mutants. The derepression, however, of these activities on galactose is the same for the wild type and the mutants. We could not detect significant differences between some kinetic properties of partially purified maltase from the wild type and from one of the mutants (mal 6-13). 2. From mutant mal 6-6 (ϱ−) a number of temperature sensitive revertants was obtained, which grew on maltose at 26°, but not at 36°. Diploids made by crossing these temperature sensitive revertants with the mal 6-mutants (ϱ+) either did not grow on maltose at the restrictive temperature, or only weakly, and therefore the ts-revertants were considered to be mal 6-alleles. A biochemical study of some of the mal 6-ts-mutants indicated that the temperature sensitivity could not be explained by an inactivation or breakdown of maltase or of the maltose transport system at the restrictive temperature. From these results we concluded that the mal 6-ts-alleles and, consequently, all mal 6-alleles are alleles of a regulator gene rather than of a structural gene for maltase or maltose permease. 3. Maltose negative segregants from crosses between strains, carrying one of the polymeric genes MAL 3, MAL 4 or MAL 6, were shown to contain a basal activity of maltase and of maltose transport. Partially purified maltase from two of those mal-segregants had comparable properties to wild type maltase (MAL 6), indicating the presence of maltase cistrons in the parent strains, not linked to the MAL-gene. 4. Indications that the mal 6-mutants are regulatory mutants in a positive regulation system are discussed as well as possible explanations for the fact that no structural mutants for maltase could be detected.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00271242
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