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  • 101
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): Psoralen sensitivity ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; DNA repair ; Oxidative stress
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract The complementation and genetical analysis of yeast mutants sensitive to photoactivated 3-carbethoxy-psoralen define three novel recessive mutant alleles pso-5-1, pso6-1, and pso7-1. Their cross-sensitivity to UV254nm, radiomimetic mutagens, and to chemicals enhancing oxidative stress suggest that these mutants are either impaired in metabolic steps protecting from oxidative stress or in mechanisms of the repair of oxygen-dependent DNA lesions. None of the three novel mutant alleles block the induction of reverse mutation by photoactivated mono- and bi-functional psoralens, nitrogen mustards, or UV254nm.
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  • 102
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): tRNA processing ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Mitochondria
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract We used a genetic approach to study the nuclear factors involved in the biogenesis of mitochondrial tRNAs. A point mutation in the mitochondrial tRNAAsp gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae had previously been shown to result in a temperature-sensitive respiratory-deficient phenotype as a result of the absence of 3′ end-processing of the tRNAAsp. Analysis of mitochondrial revertants has shown that all revertants sequenced have a G-A compensatory change at position 53, which restores the hydrogen-bond with the mutated nucleotide. We then searched for nuclear suppressors to identify the nuclear gene(s) involved in mitochondrial tRNA 3′ end-processing. One such suppressor mutation was further characterized: it restores tRNAAsp maturation and growth at 36°C on glycerol medium in heterozygous diploids, but leads to a defective growth phenotype in haploids.
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  • 103
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): Overexpression ; Peroxisomes ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Stabilization
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract We have constructed a gene coding for the 12-kDa intermediate form of the 2s methionine-rich protein from Bertholletia excelsa seeds. This protein, expressed intracellularly in yeast, is characterised by a 20-min balf-life. By adding 11 amino acids corresponding to the peroxisome-targeting sequence (PTSc) of luciferase, we have significantly increased its half-life. This stabilization allowed accumulation of the BZN protein into the peroxisome as judged by cell fractionation. Accumulation of the 12-kDa protein results in a significant increase of the total methionine content in yeast cells (30%) indicating that such a microorganism could represent a practicable protected shuttl for an animal-feed additive.
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  • 104
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): DNA repair ; Incoming DNA ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Ultraviolet light
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Purified double- and single-stranded DNAs of the autonomously replicating vector M13RK9-T were irradiated with ultraviolet light (UV) in vitro and introduced into competent whole cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Incoming double-stranded DNA was more sensitive to UV in excision repair-deficient rad2-1 cells than in proficient repair RAD + cells, while single-stranded DNA exhibited high sensitivity in both host cells. The results indicate that in yeast there is no effective rescue of UV-incoming single-stranded DNA by excision repair or other constitutive dark repair processes.
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  • 105
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Mitochondria ; Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 ; RNA processing
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Eighteen nuclear mutants of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, each disturbed in the biosynthesis of the mitochondrially encoded cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox 1) and each representing a distinct complementation group, have been examined to identify the level at which COX1 expression is affected. RNA blotting revealed that most have a defect in the processing of COX1 precursor-mRNA; only a few are defective in COX1 transcription and/or pre-mRNA stability. In most RNA-processing mutants, the absence of the COX1 messenger results from a defect in the splicing of one or more COX1 introns. In turn, this defect can be ascribed to a mutation in a nuclear gene which is either directly involved in splicing or else acts indirectly by impairing COX1 translation.
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  • 106
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): Cytochrome oxidase ; Revertant ; Mitochondria ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Three respiratory-deficient mutants of cytochrome oxidase subunit I in the yeast mitochondrion have been sequenced. They are located in, or near, transmembrane segment VI, the catalytic core of the enzyme. Respiratory-competent revertants have been selected and studied. The mutant V244M was found to revert at the same site in valine (wild-type), isoleucine or threonine. The revertants of the mutant G251R were of three types: glycine (wild-type), serine and threonine at position 251. A search for second-site mutations was carried out but none were found. Among 60 revertants tested, the mutant K265M was found to revert only to the wild-type allele.
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  • 107
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Cysteine biosynthetic ; CYS4 ; Mapping
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary A DNA fragment containing the CYS4 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was isolated from a genomic library. The cloned fragment hybridized to the transverse-alternating-field-electrophoresis band corresponding to chromosomes VII and XV. According to the 2 μm DNA chromosome-loss procedure, the cys2 and cys4 mutations, which are linked together and co-operatively confer cysteine dependence, were assigned to chromosome VII. By further mapping involving tetrad analysis, the cys2-cys4 pair was localized between SUP77 (SUP166) and ade3 on the right arm of chromosome VII.
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  • 108
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    Current genetics 21 (1992), S. 295-300 
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Serine biosynthesis ; Mutant isolation ; Glucose repression
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Serine and glycine biosynthesis in yeast proceed by two pathways; a “glycolytic” pathway, using 3-phosphoglycerate, and a “gluconeogenic” pathway, using glyoxylate. We used a mutation in the cat1 gene to abolish the glucose-repressible “gluconeogenic” pathway and re-isolated two mutants, ser1 and ser2, in the “glycolytic” pathway. The ser1 mutation corresponded to phosphoserine transaminase and ser2 to that of phosphoserine phosphatase. Mutagenesis of a ser1 ser2 cat1 triple mutant facilitated the isolation of a mutation in a new gene, SER10. SER10 appears to be part of a pathway which, under normal growth conditions, is less important in serine biosynthesis. The ser1 ser2 ser10 triple mutants were totally serine auxotrophic on glucose media but serine prototrophic during growth on non-fermentable carbon sources. This phenotype was used to select for possible regulatory mutants that synthesize serine by the gluconeogenic pathway even in the presence of glucose, e.g., with a non-glucose repressible glyoxylate cycle. In an alternative approach to isolate such mutants URA3 and TRP1 expression were placed under the control of the glucose-repressible FBP1 (fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase) promoter. Although both systems resulted in strong selection pressure we could not isolate constitutively derepressed mutants. These results indicate that transcription of glucose-repressible gluconeogenic enzymes is mainly dependent on positive regulatory elements.
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  • 109
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): Yeast ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Lysis mutants ; Plasmid stability
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The autonomously replicating plasmid YEpSS1, containing the S. cerevisiae SOD1 and SRB1 genes, was highly unstable in a wild-type strain. When transformed into a fragile srb1-1 mutant host, the same plasmid displayed different characteristics depending on the growth medium used. Both batch and continuous culture experiments demonstrated that the plasmid was very unstable when the transformed strain SLU15 was grown in the presence of an osmotic stabiliser (10% w/v sorbitol). However, in the absence of the osmoticum, nearly 100% of the cells retained the plasmid and produced the Sod1 protein after 80 generations of growth.
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  • 110
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    Current genetics 22 (1992), S. 1-7 
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Wine yeasts ; Chromosome length polymorphism ; TAFE ; Probe hybridization
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Wine yeast strains are characterized by a high chromosomal DNA polymorphism. This can be explained partly by a size difference of different variants of specific chromosomes. This difference can reach up to 45% of the size of the chromosome in question. Two strains, SB1 and Eg8, have a very complex chromosomal pattern and show one band hybridizing with probes from two different chromosomes derived from a reference strain. This is an indication of the presence of “hybrid” chromosomes in these wine strains. The most astonishing result concerns chromosome VIII, frequently present in wine strains in two variant forms. The first normal form has a size of about 580 kb while the second is around 1000 kb. These two forms segregate at meiosis and recombine with a normal chromosome VIII from a laboratory strain. Wine yeasts are thus very different from haploid laboratory strains.
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  • 111
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    Current genetics 22 (1992), S. 9-11 
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; IMP dehydrogenase ; 6-azauracil ; GTP level
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The addition of 6-azauracil to the growth medium causes a strong reduction of the GTP level in the nucleotide pool of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In-vitro experiments show a strong inhibition of IMP dehydrogenase activity by 6-azaUMP explaining the preceeding effect. PPR2 mutants, previously characterized by an increased sensitivity to 6-azauracil compared to the wildtype, are specifically susceptible to the lowering of the GTP pool, and are able to grow in presence of 6-azauracil when guanine is added to the medium.
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  • 112
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    Current genetics 22 (1992), S. 267-272 
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Sterol 14-reductase ; Ergosterol ; Fenpropidin
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary We have transformed Saccharomyces cerevisiae with a genomic library contained in the replicative vector pFL44. The resulting transformants were screened for resistance to fenpropidin, a specific inhibitor of sterol 14-reductase. A plasmid was isolated that transformed yeast both to resistance to fenpropidin and to an increased specific activity of sterol 14-reductase. Sterol analysis of transformed cells grown in the presence of increasing concentrations of the inhibitor confirmed that resistance was a consequence of over-production of sterol 14-reductase. By chromosomal gene disruption, we have, for the first time, constructed yeast strains defective in sterol 14-reductase. As expected, since yeast in unable to take up sterols in aerobiosis, the disrupted strains do not grow in the presence of oxygen, even if exogenous sterols are supplied. However, disrupted cells grow in anaerobiosis with exogenous oleic acid and ergosterol supplemens. They also grow in aerobiosis if they bear an additional mutation allowing sterol uptake. In this last growth condition the cells require a “sparking” ergosterol supplementation (25nM) and accumulate ignosterol (ergosta-8, 14-dienol) as the end-product of the sterol pathway. These results reveal that ignosterol is not obviously toxic to yeast membranes and strongly suggest that the molecular basis of the antifungal-activity morpholine and piperidine is directly related to the specific inhibition of ergosterol formation.
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  • 113
    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase ; Glucose repression ; Gene activation ; Gluconeogenesis
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase is a key enzyme in gluconeogenesis and the FBP1 gene is not transcribed during growth with glucose. Genetic analysis indicated a positive regulation of FBP1 expression after exhaustion of glucose. By linker-deletion analysis, two upstream activation sites (UAS1 and UAS2) were localized and the respective UAS-binding factors (DAP I and DAP II for derepression activating protein) were identified by gel retardation. UAS1 and UAS2 span about 30 bp each, and are separated by approximately 30 bp. Both UAS sites act synergistically. Although UAS1 showed some similarities to the DNA-binding consensus for the general yeast activator Rap1, competition experiments and DEAE-chromatography proved that DAP I and Rap1 correspond to different proteins. Gel retardation by DAP I depended on carbon sources and did not occur in cells growing logarithmically with glucose, whereas a strong retardation signal was obtained with ethanol-grown cells. The present results suggest that DAP I and DAP II are the final regulatory elements for glucose derepression.
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  • 114
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    Archives of microbiology 100 (1974), S. 243-252 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Carbon Monoxide Trace-Measurement ; 14C-Glucose ; CO Production ; Atmospheric Cycle of Trace Gases
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Zusammenfassung 1. Mit einer empfindlichen Analysenmethode, die auf die Reaktion CO+HgO→CO2+Hg basiert und den CO-Gehalt auf Grund der Absorption des freigesetzten Hg bei 2537 Å ermittelt, wurden im Gasraum über wachsenden Kulturen von Saccharomyces cerevisiae, S. oviformis, Escherichia coli, Aerobacter aerogenes, Pseudomonas spec. und Lactobacillus brevis 0.4–2.6 ppm CO nachgewiesen. Bei Lactobacillus arabinosus, Bacillus cereus var. mycoides und Aspergillus niger war eine CO-Bildung nicht meßbar. 2. Bei S. cerevisiae war die CO-Bildung bei Konzentrationen von 10–50 g Glucose pro Liter Medium am größten. Außerdem wurde die CO-Bildung proportional zum anfänglichen Sauerstoffgehalt im Gasraum über den Kulturen gefördert. 3. Mit 14C-markierter Glucose wurde nachgewiesen, daß CO aus Glucose entsteht. 4. Die CO-Bildung der untersuchten Mikroorganismen ist so gering, daß sie keine Bedeutung für den Kreislauf dieses Spurengases in der Atmosphäre hat.
    Notizen: Summary 1. Growing cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, S. oviformis, Escherichia coli, Aerobacter aerogenes, Pseudomonas spec. and Lactobacillus brevis produce trace amounts of CO (0.4–2.6 ppm) that can be detected in the gas space above the cultures using a sensitive analytical method based on the reaction CO+HgO→CO2+Hg. The liberated Hg is quantitatively measured by atomic absorption at 2537 Å. No CO could be detected above cultures of Lactobacillus arabinosus, Bacillus cereus var. mycoides and Aspergillus niger. 2. The maximum CO production by Saccharomyces was obtained with concentrations of 10–50 g glucose per liter medium. The amount of CO formed increased with the oxygen concentration in the gas space above the cultures. 3. Using 14C-glucose it was shown that S. cerevisiae forms CO from glucose. 4. The formation of CO by the microorganisms investigated is very small. The ratio of CO/CO2 produced is much smaller than in environmental air. Therefore it can be concluded that the production of CO by these microorganisms has probably no significance for the atmospheric cycle of this trace gas.
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  • 115
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    Archives of microbiology 154 (1990), S. 267-273 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Yeast ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; (R)-2,3-Butanediol dehydrogenase ; Stereospecificity ; Gas chromatographic analysis of enantiomers
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract A NAD-dependent (R)-2,3-butanediol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.4), selectively catalyzing the oxidation at the (R)-center of 2,3-butanediol irrespective of the absolute configuration of the other carbinol center, was isolated from cell extracts of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Purification was achieved by means of streptomycin sulfate treatment, Sephadex G-25 filtration, DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B chromatography, affinity chromatography on Matrex Gel Blue A and Superose 6 prep grade chromatography leading to a 70-fold enrichment of the specific activity with 44% yield. Analysis of chiral products was carried out by gas chromatographic methods via pre-chromatographic derivatization and resolution of corresponding diasteromeric derivatives. The enzyme was capable to reduce irreversibly diacetyl (2,3-butanediol) to (R)-acetoin (3-hydroxy-2-butanone) and in a subsequent reaction reversibly to (R,R)-2,3-butanediol using NADH as coenzyme. 1-Hydroxy-2-ketones and C5-acyloins were also accepted as substrates, whereas the enzyme was inactive towards the reduction of acetone and dihydroxyacetone. The relative molecular mass (M r) of the enzyme was estimated as 140 000 by means of gel filtration. On SDS-polyacrylamide gel the protein decomposed into 4 (identical) subunits of M r 35 000. Optimum pH was 6.7 for the reduction of acetoin to 2,3-butanediol and 7.2 for the reverse reaction.
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  • 116
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Candida tropicalis ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Peroxisomes ; Isocitrate lyase ; GAL7 promoter ; High level expression
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract The genomic DNA of peroxisomal isocitrate lyase (ICL) isolated from an n-alkane-assimilating yeast, Candida tropicalis, was truncated to utilize the original open reading frame under the control of the GAL7 promoter and was expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The recombinant ICL was synthesized as a functionally active enzyme with a specific activity similar to the enzyme purified from C. tropicalis, and was accounted for approximately 30% of the total extractable proteins in the yeast cells. This recombinant enzyme was easily purified to homogeneity. N-Terminal amino acid sequence, molecular masses of native form and subunit, amino acid composition, peptide maps, and kinetic parameters of the recombinant ICL were essentially the same as those of ICL purified from C. tropicalis. From these facts, S. cerevisiae was suggested to be an excellent microorganism to highly express the genes encoding peroxisomal proteins of C. tropicalis.
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  • 117
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    Archives of microbiology 158 (1992), S. 115-126 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Yeast cells ; Yeast protoplasts ; Cell wall ; Congo red ; (1 » 3)-β-d-glucan microfibrils ; Cytokinesis ; Reversion of walled protoplasts to cells
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Congo red was applied to growing yeast cells and regenerating protoplasts in order to study its effects on wall biogenesis and cell morphogenesis. In the presence of the dye, the whole yeast cells grew and divided to form chains of connected cells showing aberrant wall structures on both sides of the septum. The wall-less protoplasts in solid medium with the dye exhibited an abnormal increase in volume, regeneration of aberrant cell walls and inability to carry out cytokinesis or protoplast reversion to cells. In liquid medium, the protoplasts synthesized glucan nets composed mainly of thin fibrils orientated at random, whereas normally, in the absence of dye, the nets consist of rather thick fibrils, 10 to 20 nm in width, assembled into broad ribbons. These fibrils are known to consist of triple 6/1 helical strands of (1 » 3)-β-d-glucan aggregated laterally in crystalline packing. The thin fibrils (c. 4 to 8 nm wide) can contain only a few triple helical strands (c. 1.6 nm wide) and are supposed to be prevented from further aggregation and crystallization by complexing with Congo red on their surfaces. Some loose triple 6/1 helical strands (native elementary fibrils) are also discernible. They represent the first native (1 » 3)-β-d-glucan elementary fibrils depicted by electron microscopy. The effects of Congo red on growth and the wall structure in normal cells and regenerating protoplasts in solid medium can be explained by the presence of a complex which the dye forms with (helical) chain parts of the glucan network and which results in a loss of rigidity by a blocked lateral interaction between the helices.
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  • 118
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    Archives of microbiology 162 (1994), S. 211-214 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Killer toxin ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Toxin binding ; Cell wall receptor
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract A recently described new method for determination of killer toxin activity was used for kinetic measurenments of K1 toxin binding. The cells of the killer sensitive strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae S6 were shown to carry two classes of toxin binding sites differing widely in their half-saturation constants and maximum binding rates. The low-affinity and high-velocity binding component (K T1=2.6x109 L.U./ml, V max1=0.19 s-1) probably reflects diffusion-limited binding to cell wall receptors; the high-affinity and low-velocity component (K T2=3.2x107 L.U./ml, V max2=0.03 s-1) presumably indicates the binding of the toxin to plasma membrane receptors. Adsorption of most of the killer toxin K1 to the surface of sensitive cells occured within 1 min and was virtually complete within 5 min. The amount of toxin that saturated practically all cell receptors was about 600 lethal units (L.U.) per cell of S. cerevisiae S6.
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  • 119
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Rylux BSU ; Fluorescent brightener ; Cell walls ; Chitin synthase ; Glucan synthase ; Yeast ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Rylux BSU, a new fluorescent brightener from the family of 4,4′-diaminostilbene-2,2′disulfonic acid derivatives, inhibited growth and cytokinesis of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In the presence of 0.1–1 mg/ml Rylux BSU the cells grew in clumps, had irregular shape and were larger than controls. They formed apparently normal primary septa but their secondary septa and lateral cell walls, especially those in older cells, were abnormally thick with large deposits of amorphous wall material in the periplasmic spaces all over the cell surface. Chitin content in the cell walls of cells grown in the presence of Rylux BSU was increased 2 to 5 times in comparison to that of the controls and glucan content was reduced by up to 30%. In the in vitro assays with particulate membrane fractions, Rylux BSU acted as a non-competitive inhibitor of β-1,3-glucan synthase with inhibitory constant K i=1.75 mg/ml whereas the chitin synthase was inhibited to a much lesser extent. From the difference of the effects of Rylux BSU on the synthesis of chitin in vivo and in vitro it is concluded that the brightener interacts with chitin synthase only indirectly, possibly by influencing the properties of integral plasma membrane.
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  • 120
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    Archives of microbiology 162 (1994), S. 211-214 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Key words     Killer toxin ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Toxin binding ; Cell wall receptor
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract      A recently described new method for determination of killer toxin activity was used for kinetic measurements of K1 toxin binding. The cells of the killer sensitive strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae S6 were shown to carry two classes of toxin binding sites differing widely in their half-saturation constants and maximum binding rates. The low-affinity and high-velocity binding component (K T1 = 2.6 × 109 L.U./ml, V max1 = 0.19 s– 1) probably reflects diffusion-limited binding to cell wall receptors; the high-affinity and low-velocity component (K T2 = 3.2 × 107 L.U./ml, V max2 = 0.03 s– 1) presumably indicates the binding of the toxin to plasma membrane receptors. Adsorption of most of the killer toxin K1 to the surface of sensitive cells occured within 1 min and was virtually complete within 5 min. The amount of toxin that saturated practically all cell receptors was about 600 lethal units (L.U.) per cell of S. cerevisiae S6.
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  • 121
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    Archives of microbiology 101 (1974), S. 295-301 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Chitin Synthase ; Proteinase B ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Morphogenesis
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract The activity of chitin synthase extracted from whole cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae shows reproducible changes during the course of batch cultivation. During exponential growth 5–10% of the enzyme occurs in the active form, whereas in the stationary phase no active enzyme can be detected. Of three yeast proteinases, A, B and C, only B is able to activate pre-chitin synthase and inactivate chitin synthase. A new model of the regulation is presented which accounts for the specific location as well as for termination of chitin synthesis during the budding cycle.
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  • 122
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): cAMP ; Cat mutants ; Glucose repression ; Glucose-induced ; Intracellular pH ; Ras ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Signal transduction ; Trehalase ; Yeast
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Addition of glucose to derepressed cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae induces a transient, specific cAMP signal. Intracellular acidification in these cells, as caused by addition of protonophores like 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) causes a large, lasting increase in the cAMP level. The effect of glucose and DNP was investigated in glucose-repressed wild type cells and in cells of two mutants which are deficient in derepression of glucose-repressible proteins, cat1 and cat3. Addition of glucose to cells of the cat3 mutant caused a transient increase in the cAMP level whereas cells of the cat1 mutant and in most cases also repressed wild type cells did not respond to glucose addition with a cAMP increase. The glucose-induced cAMP increase in cat3 cells and the cAMP increase occasionally present in repressed wild type cells however could be prevented completely by addition of a very low level of glucose in advance. In derepressed wild type cells this does not prevent the specific glucose-induced cAMP signal at all. These results indicate that repressed cells do not show a true glucose-induced cAMP signal. When DNP was added to glucose-repressed wild type cells or to cells of the cat1 and cat3 mutants no cAMP increase was observed. Addition of a very low level of glucose before the DNP restored the cAMP increase which points to lack of ATP as the cause for the absence of the DNP effect. These data show that intracellular acidification is able to enhance the cAMP level in repressed cells. The glucose-induced artefactual increase occasionally observed in repressed cells is probably caused by the fact that their low intracellular pH is only restored after the ATP level has increased to such an extent that it is no longer limiting for cAMP synthesis. It is unclear why the artefactual increases are not always observed. Measurement of glucose- and DNP-induced activation of trehalase confirmed the physiological validity of the changes observed in the cAMP level. Our results are consistent with the idea that the glucose-induced signaling pathway contains a glucose-repressible protein and that the protein is located before the point where intracellular acidification triggers activation of the pathway.
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  • 123
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Catalase A ; Catalase T ; β-Oxidation ; Microbodies ; H2O2-Metabolism
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract The parental strain (A+T+) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and mutants, deficient in catalase T (A+T−), catalase A (A−T+) or both catalases (A−T−), grew on ethanol and oleic acid with comparable doubling times. Specific activities of catalase were low in glucose- and ethanol-grown cells. In the two oleic acid-grown A+-strains (A+T+ and A+T−) high catalase activities were found; catalase activity invariably remained low in the A−T+ strain and was never detected in the A−T− strain. The levels of β-oxidation enzymes in oleic acid-grown cells of the parental and all mutant strains were not significantly different. However, cytochrome C peroxidase activity had increased 8-fold in oleic acid grown A− strains (A−T+ and A−T−) compared to parental strain cells. The degree of peroxisomal proliferation was comparable among the different strains. Catalase A was shown to be located in peroxisomes. Catalase T is most probably cytosolic in nature and/or present in the periplasmic space.
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  • 124
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Pyruvate decarboxylase ; Pyruvate kinase ; Signalling ; Glycolysis mutants
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Pyruvate decarboxylase, PDCase, activity in wild-type yeast cells growing on ethanol is quite low but increases up to tenfold upon addition of glucose, less with galactose and only slightly with glycerol. PDCase levels in glycolysis mutant strains growing on ethanol or acetate were higher than in the wild-type strain. These levels correlated with the sum of the concentrations of three-carbon glycolytic metabolites. The highest accumulation was observed in a fructose bisphosphate aldolase deletion mutant concomintant with the highest PDCase activity wild-type level. On the other hand, the PDCase levels in the different mutants again correlated with the sum of the concentrations of the three-carbon glycolytic metabolites. This was interpreted to mean that full induction of PDCase activity requires the accumulation of hexose-and triosephosphates.
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  • 125
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Acetyl-CoA ; l-Lysine N6 ; acetytransferase ; Lysine catabolism
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract The carbon catabolism of l-lysine starts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae with acetylation by an acetyl-CoA: l-lysine N6-acetyltransferase. The enzyme is strongly induced in cells grown on l-lysine as sole carbon source and has been purified about 530-fold. Its activity was specific for acetyl-CoA and, in addition to l-lysine, 5-hydroxylysine and thialysine act as acetyl acceptor. The following apparent Michaelis constants were determined: acetyl-CoA 0.8 mM, l-lysine 5.8 mM, dl-5-hydroxylysine 2.8 mM, l-thialysine 100 mM. The enzyme had a maximum activity at pH 8.5 and 37°C. Its molecular mass, estimated by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was 52 kDa. Since the native molecular mass, determined by gel filtration, was 48 kDa, the enzyme is a monomer.
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  • 126
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    Archives of microbiology 153 (1990), S. 384-391 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Ethanol ; Acetic acid ; Cytoplasmic pH ; 31P-NMR ; 13C-NMR
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Cell suspensions of a respiratory deficient mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were monitored by in vivo 31P and 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in order to evaluate the effect of ethanol in intracellular pH and metabolism. In the absence of an added energy source, ethanol caused acidification of the cytoplasm, as indicated by the shift to higher field of the resonance assigned to the cytoplasmic orthophosphate. Under the experimental conditions used this acidification was not a consequence of an increase in the passive influx of H+. With cells energized with glucose, a lower value for the cytoplasmic pH was also observed, when ethanol was added. Furthermore, lower levels of phosphomonoesters were detected in the presence of ethanol, indicating that an early event in glycolysis is an important target of the ethanol action. Acetic acid was identified as responsible for the acidification of the cytoplasm, in experiments where [13C]ethanol was added and formation of labeled acetic acid was detected. The intracellular and the extracellular concentrations of acetic acid were respectively, 30 mM and 2 mM when 0.5% (120 mM) [13C]ethanol was added.
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  • 127
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    Archives of microbiology 154 (1990), S. 544-549 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Regulatory mutants ; Meiotic mapping ; Transcriptional regulation ; MAL genes ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract The MAL1 locus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae comprises three genes necessary for maltose utilization: a regulatory (MALR), a maltose transport (MALT) and a maltase gene (MALS). A fine structure genetic map of the MAL1R gene was constructed and the order of mutations was confirmed by plasmid-mediated chromosomal recombination. The mutations cluster non-randomly within the 5′ half of the gene, where the putative DNA binding domain of the encoded protein is located. Only mutations mal1 R-22 and MAL1R-72 map in the 3′ terminal half of the gene; these mutations cause a different pattern of transcriptional regulation of plasmid-borne MAL6T genes. Experiments supporting a direct involvement of the MALR-encoded protein in carbon catabolite repression of MAL gene expression are reported.
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  • 128
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    Archives of microbiology 156 (1991), S. 38-42 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Water stress ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Glycerol ; Yeast water relations ; Osmoregulation
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract When exponentially growing Saccharomyces cerevisiae was transferred from a normal high water activity growth medium (aw 0.997) to a medium containing 8% NaCl low water activity growth medium (aw 0.955), glycerol accumulation during the first eight hours of the adaptation was both retarded and greatly diminished in magnitude. Investigation of the underlying reasons for the slow onset of glycerol accumulation revealed that not only was overall glycerol production reduced by salt transfer, but also the rates of ethanol production and glucose consumption were reduced. Measurement of glycolytic intermediates revealed an accumulation of glucose-6-phosphate, fructose-6-phosphate, fructose 1,6 bisphosphate and phosphoenolpyruvate in S. cerevisiae 3 to 4 h after transfer to salt, suggesting that one or more glycolytic enzymes were inhibited. Potassium ions accumulated in S. cerevisiae after salt transfer and reached a maximum about 6 h after transfer, whereas the sodium ion content increased progressively during the adaptation period. The trehalose content also increased in adapting cells. It is suggested that inhibition of glycerol production during the initial period of adaptation could be due to either the inhibition of glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase by increased cation content or the inhibitin of glycolysis, glycerol being produced glycolytically in S. cerevisiae. The increased accumulation of glycerol towards the end of the 8-h period suggests that the osmoregulatory response of S. cerevisiae involves complex sets of adjustments in which inhibition of glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase must be relieved before glycerol functions as a major osmoregulator.
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  • 129
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    Archives of microbiology 157 (1992), S. 305-310 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Schlagwort(e): Phytochelatin ; Metallothionein ; Heavy metal detoxification ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Neurospora crassa
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract In fungi, cellular resistance to heavy metal cytotoxicity is mediated either by binding of metal ions to proteins of the metallothionein type or by chelation to phytochelatin-peptides of the general formula (γ-Glu-Cys)n-Gly. Hitherto, only one fungus, Candida glabrata has been shown to contain both metal inactivating systems. Here we show by unambiguous FAB-MS analysis that both a metallothionein-free mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as well as a wildtype strain synthesize phytochelatin (PC2) upon exposure to 250 μM Cd2+ ions. The presence of Zn and/or Cu ions in the nutrient broth also induces PC2 synthesis in this organism. By 109Cd exchange and subsequent monobromobimane fluorescence HPLC, it could be shown that the presence of Cd2+ in the growth medium also induces phytochelatin synthesis in Neurospora crassa, which contains metallothioneins.
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  • 130
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    Journal of industrial microbiology and biotechnology 13 (1994), S. 30-34 
    ISSN: 1476-5535
    Schlagwort(e): Phytate ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Polyacrylamide gel ; Inositol phosphates
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Werkstoffwissenschaften, Fertigungsverfahren, Fertigung
    Notizen: Summary Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the form of baker's yeast, cells cultivated on a yeast extract-peptone-glucose medium, as well as cells immobilized in 18% (w/v) polyacrylamide gel showed the ability to hydrolyze 1.727 mM sodium phytate solution at 45°C, pH 4.6, in a stirred tank reactor. Seventy percent yield of dephosphorylation was observed after 2 h using a baker's yeast concentration of 5.8 g dry matter per 100 ml. Hydrolytic activity at 1.8–2.0 μM Pi min−1 was observed between 1st and 3rd h of the reaction in cells cultured 24 or 48 h. No inhibition by the substrate was found at sodium phytate concentrations of 0.587–1.727 mM. After 1.5 h of hydrolysis a single, well distinguished peak ofmyo-inositol-triphosphate was the main product found. By means of immobilization the stability of the biocatalyst was enhanced 3.3-fold and reached its half-life at 64 ninety-minute runs.
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  • 131
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    Journal of industrial microbiology and biotechnology 13 (1994), S. 269-272 
    ISSN: 1476-5535
    Schlagwort(e): Wine ; Yeasts ; Fatty acids ; Ethyl esters ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Werkstoffwissenschaften, Fertigungsverfahren, Fertigung
    Notizen: Summary The evolution of the cell and must contents of three short-chain fatty acids (C6, C8 and C10) and their ethyl esters during fermentations withSaccharomyces cerevisiae racescerevisiae, bayanus andcapensis were studied. The former is a fermentative yeast and the last two are ‘flor’ film yeasts. The acid concentrations in the musts increased throughout the alcoholic fermentations, and maximum cell concentrations of the fatty acids were reached after 48 h of fermentation. Maximum ester concentrations in the cells were attained after 48–72 h of fermentation. In the musts, ethyl octanoate and ethyl decanoate reached a peak also at this point, and ethyl hexanoate after 10 days. After 134 days,S. cerevisiae racecapensis formed a thick ‘flor’ film whileS. cerevisiae racebayanus developed a thin film andS. cerevisiae racecerevisiae formed no film. At this point, acid contents remained constant in the wines produced byS. cerevisiae racescerevisiae andbayanus, and decreased in those obtained with racecapensis. The ethyl ester contents tended to decrease with the exception of ethyl decanoate in the fermentations carried out byS. cerevisiae racescerevisiae andbayanus.
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  • 132
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    Molecular and cellular biochemistry 124 (1993), S. 131-140 
    ISSN: 1573-4919
    Schlagwort(e): Schizosaccharomyces pombe ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; H+-ATPase ; intracellular pH ; carboxy-seminaphthorhodafluor-1
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Chemie und Pharmazie , Medizin
    Notizen: Abstract We examined cytoplasmic pH regulation inSchizosaccharomyces pombe andSaccharomyces cerevisiae using pH-sensitive fluorescent dyes. Of several different fluorescent compounds tested, carboxy-seminaphthorhodafluor-1 (C.SNARF-1) was the most effective. Leakage of C.SNARF-1 fromS. pombe was much slower than leakage fromC. cerevisiae. Using the pH-dependent fluorescence of C.SNARF-1 we showed that at an external pH of 7, mean resting internal pH was 7.0 forS. pombe and 6.6 forS. cerevisiae. We found that internal pH inS. pombe was maintained over a much narrower range in response to changes in external pH, especially at acidic pH. The addition of external glucose caused an intracellular alkalinization in both species, although the effect was much greater inS. cerevisiae than inS. pombe. The plasma membrane H+-ATPase inhibitor diethylstilbestrol reduced both the rate and extent of alkalinisation, with an IC50 of approximately 35 μM in both species. Amiloride also inhibited internal alkalinisation with IC50's of 745 μM forS. cerevisiae and 490 μM forS. pombe.
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  • 133
    ISSN: 1573-4919
    Schlagwort(e): bovine heart fatty acid-binding protein ; H-FABPc ; heterologous gene expression ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; GALIO promoter
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Chemie und Pharmazie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary The unicellular eukaryotic microorganism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, transformed with a plasmid containing a cDNA fragment encoding bovine heart fatty acid-binding protein (H-FABP) under the control of the inducible yeast GAL10 promoter, expressed FABP during growth on galactose. The maximum level of immunoreactive FABP, identical in size to native protein as judged from SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was reached after approximately 16 hours of induction. Analysis of particulate and soluble subcellular fractions showed that FABP was exclusively associated with the cytosol. FABP expressed in yeast cells was functional as was demonstrated by its capacity to bind 14C-oleic acid in an in vitro assay. Growth of the transformants on galactose as the carbon source was significantly retarded at 37°C. Whereas the fatty acid pattern of total lipids was not altered in transformed cells, desaturation of exogenously added 14C-palmitic acid was significantly reduced both at 30 and 37°C. The lowest percentage of radioactively labeled unsaturated fatty acids was found in the phospholipid fraction.
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  • 134
    ISSN: 1573-4919
    Schlagwort(e): glutathione reductase ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; redox interconversion ; metals ; cell-free extracts
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie , Chemie und Pharmazie , Medizin
    Notizen: Summary Redox inactivation of glutathione reductase involves metal cations, since chelators protected against NADPH-inactivation, 3 µM EDTA or 10 µM DETAPAC yielding full protection. Ag+, Zn2+ and Cd2+ potentiated the redox inactivation promoted by NADPH alone, while Cr3+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Cu+, and Cu2+ protected the enzyme. The Zn2+ and Cd2+ effect was time-dependent, unlike conventional inhibition. Glutathione reductase interconversion did not require dioxygen, excluding participation of active oxygen species produced by NADPH and metal cations. One Zn2+ ion was required per enzyme subunit to yield full NADPH-inactivation, the enzyme being reactivated by EDTA. Redox inactivation of glutathione reductase could arise from the blocking of the dithiol formed at the active site of the reduced enzyme by metal cations, like Zn2+ or Cd2+. The glutathione reductase activity of yeast cell-free extracts was rapidly inactivated by low NADPH or moderate NADH concentrations; NADP+ also promoted rapid inactivation in fresh extracts, probably after reduction to NADPH. Full inactivation was obtained in cell-free extracts incubated with glucose-6-phosphate or 6-phosphogluconate; the inactivating efficiency of several oxidizable substrates was directly proportional to the specific activities of the corresponding dehydrogenases, confirming that redox inactivation derives from NADPH formed in vitro.
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  • 135
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    Plant molecular biology 22 (1993), S. 1177-1180 
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Schlagwort(e): abscisic acid ; developmental regulation ; heat shock proteins ; Oryza sativa ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Antibodies raised against yeast heat shock protein (HSP) 104 recognized a heat-inducible polypeptide with a molecular mass of 110 kDa in shoot tissue of young rice seedlings. Root tissue of the same age showed no immuno-reaction with yeast HSP 104 antibodies. The 110 kDa polypeptide of rice was also shown to be abscisic acid-inducible in young seedlings. Though this polypeptide was seen to be constitutively present in the flag leaf of 90-day-old field-grown plant, it was not much affected by either heat shock or abscisic acid in this case.
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  • 136
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    Molecular biology reports 20 (1994), S. 135-141 
    ISSN: 1573-4978
    Schlagwort(e): mitochondria ; multienzyme complex ; replication ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract A 40 S multienzyme complex containing mtDNA polymerase was isolated from mitochondria ofS. cerevisiae by density gradient centrifugation and by gel filtration chromatography. Besides DNA polymerase, RNA polymerase, primase, 3′→5′ exonuclease and an ATPase activities were found to be associated with it. The presence of some of these enzymes were confirmed by Western blot. This high molecular weight multienzyme complex containing DNA has most of the attributes of a putative replisome.
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  • 137
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Schlagwort(e): Arabidopsis thaliana ; cDNA ; complementation ; erg20-2 yeast mutant ; farnesyl diphosphate synthase ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract A cDNA encoding farnesyl diphosphate synthase, an enzyme that synthesizes C15 isoprenoid diphosphate from isopentenyl diphosphate and dimethylallyl diphosphate, was cloned from an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA library by complementation of a mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae deficient in this enzyme. The A. thaliana cDNA was also able to complement the lethal phenotype of the erg20 deletion yeast mutant. As deduced from the full-length 1.22 kb cDNA nucleotide sequence, the polypeptide contains 343 amino acids and has a relative molecular mass of 39689. The predicted amino acid sequence presents about 50% identity with the yeast, rat and human FPP synthases. Southern blot analyses indicate that A. thaliana probably contains a single gene for farnesyl diphosphate synthase.
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  • 138
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    Journal of fluorescence 3 (1993), S. 241-244 
    ISSN: 1573-4994
    Schlagwort(e): Killer toxin K1 ; bromocresol purple staining ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Physik
    Notizen: Abstract Optimal assay conditions were established for the previously described method used to determine the activity ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae pore-forming killer toxin K1. The method is based on cell staining with bromocresol purple. Sensitive cells ofS. cerevisiae from the early exponential phase under nongrowth conditions and in the presence of glucose were the most convenient for determining the killer toxin activity. Maximum killing war reached when the suspension was buffered with 10 mM citrate-phosphate at pH 4.6.
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  • 139
    ISSN: 1573-5028
    Schlagwort(e): Brassica napus ; chloroplast ; 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase ; molecular evolution ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Both insect and mammalian genes have previously been cloned by genetic complementation in yeast. In the present report, we show that the method can be applied also to plants. Thus, we have cloned a rape cDNA for 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase (IMDH) by complementation of a yeast leu2 mutation. The cDNA encodes a 52 kDA protein which has a putative chloroplast transit peptide. The in vitro made protein is imported into chloroplasts, concomitantly with a proteolytic cleavage. We conclude that the rape cDNA encodes a chloroplast IMDH. However, Southern analysis revealed that the corresponding gene is nuclear. In a comparison of IMDH sequences from various species, we found that the rape IMDH is more similar to bacterial than to eukaryotic proteins. This suggests that the rape gene could be of chloroplast origin, but has moved to the nucleus during evolution.
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  • 140
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    The journal of membrane biology 116 (1990), S. 93-105 
    ISSN: 1432-1424
    Schlagwort(e): clathrin ; genetics ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; exocytosis ; endocytosis ; prohormone maturation
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    Thema: Biologie , Chemie und Pharmazie
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  • 141
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Cerulenin ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Fatty acid synthase ; β-Ketoacyl synthase ; Drug resistance
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Cerulenin, an antifungal antibiotic produced by Cephalosporium caerulens, is a potent inhibitor of fatty acid synthase in various organisms, including Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The antibiotic inhibits the enzyme by binding covalently to the active center cysteine of the condensing enzyme domain. We isolated 12 cerulenin-resistant mutants of S. cerevisiae following treatment with ethyl methanesulfonate. The mechanism of cerulenin resistance in one of the mutants, KNCR-1, was studied. Growth of the mutant was over 20 times more resistant to cerulenin than that of the wild-type strain. Tetrad analysis suggested that all mutants mapped at the same locus, FAS2, the gene encoding the α subunit of the fatty acid synthase. The isolated fatty acid synthase, purified from the mutant KNCR-1, was highly resistant to cerulenin. The cerulenin concentration causing 50% inhibition (IC50) of the enzyme activity was measured to be 400 μM, whereas the IC50 value was 15 μM for the enzyme isolated from the wild-type strain, indicating a 30-fold increase in resistance to cerulenin. The FAS2 gene was cloned from the mutant. Sequence replacement experiments suggested that an 0.8 kb EcoRV-HindIII fragment closely correlated with cerulenin resistance. Sequence analysis of this region revealed that the GGT codon encoding Gly-1257 of the FAS2 gene was altered to AGT in the mutant, resulting in the codon for Ser. Furthermore, a recombinant FAS2 gene, in which the 0.8 Kb EcoRV-HindIII fragment of the wild-type FAS2 gene was replaced with the same region from the mutant, when introduced into FAS2-defective S. cerevisiae complemented the FAS2 pheno-type and showed cerulenin resistance. These data indicate that one amino acid substitution (Gly → Ser) in the α subunit of fatty acid synthase is responsible for the cerulenin resistance of the mutant KNCR-1.
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  • 142
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Transcriptional regulation ; Chromatin
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract GAL11 was first identified as a gene required for full expression of some galactose-inducible genes that are activated by GAL4, and it was subsequently shown to be necessary for full expression of another set of genes activated by RAP1/GRFl/TUF. Genetic analysis suggests that GAL11 functions as a coactivator, mediating the interaction of sequence-specific activators with basal transcription factors. To test this hypothesis, we first tried to identify functional domains by deletion analysis and found that the 866–910 region is indispensable for function. Using reporters bearing various upstream activating sequences (UAS) and different core promoter structures, we show that the involvement of GAL11 in transcriptional activation varies with the target promoter and the particular combination of cis elements. Gel electrophoresis in the presence of chloroquine shows that GAL11 affects the chromatin structure of a circular plasmid. Based on these findings, the role of GAL 11 in regulation of transcription, including an alteration in chromatin structure, is discussed.
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  • 143
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Ribosomal protein genes ; Transcription activation ; cAMP ; Growth control
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract The rate of ribosomal protein gene (rp-gene) transcription in yeast is accurately adjusted to the cellular requirement for ribosomes under various growth conditions. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying this co-ordinated transcriptional control have not yet been elucidated. Transcriptional activation of rp-genes is mediated through two different multifunctional trans-acting factors, ABF1 and RAP1. In this report, we demonstrate that changes in cellular rp-mRNA levels during varying growth conditions are not parallelled by changes in the in vitro binding capacity of ABF1 or RAP1 for their cognate sequences. In addition, the nutritional upshift response of rp-genes observed after addition of glucose to a culture growing on a non-fermentative carbon source turns out not to be the result of increased expression of the ABF1 and RAP1 genes or of elevated DNA-binding activity of these factors. Therefore, growth rate-dependent transcription regulation of rp-genes is most probably not mediated by changes in the efficiency of binding of ABF1 and RAP1 to the upstream activation sites of these genes, but rather through other alterations in the efficiency of transcription activation. Furthermore, we tested the possibility that cAMP may play a role in elevating rp-gene expression during a nutritional shift-up. We found that the nutritional upshift response occurs normally in several mutants defective in cAMP metabolism.
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 239 (1993), S. 28-32 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; UV damage ; Mating type ; Inducible repair
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract The prior UV irradiation of α haploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae with a UV dose of 25 J/m2 substantially increases the repairability of damage subsequently induced by a UV dose of 70 J/m2 given 1 h after the first irradiation. This enhancement of repair is seen at both the MATa and HMLα loci, which are, respectively, transcriptionally active and inactive in α haploid cells. The presence in the medium of the protein synthesis inhibitor, cycloheximide in the period between the two irradiations eliminated this effect. Enhanced repair still occurred if cycloheximide was present only after the final UV irradiation. This indicated that the first result is not due to cycloheximide merely blocking the synthesis of repair enzymes associated with a hypothetical rapid turnover of such molecules. The enhanced repairability is not the result of changes in chromatin accessibility without protein synthesis, merely caused by the repair of the damage induced by the prior irradiation. The data clearly show that a UV-inducible removal of pyrimidine dimers has occurred which involves the synthesis of new proteins. The genes known to possess inducible promoters, and which are involved in excision are RAD2, RAD7, RAD16 and RAD23. Studies with the rad7 and rad16 mutants which are defective in the ability to repair HMLα and proficient in the repair' of MATα showed that in rad7, preirradiation enhanced the repair at MATα, whereas in rad16 this increased repair of MATα was absent. The preirradiation did not modify the inability to repair HMLα in either strain. Thus RAD16 has a role in this inducible repair. Inducible repair is also absent in a rad2 strain which cannot repair MATα or HMLα after a single UV dose.
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  • 145
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    Protoplasma 166 (1992), S. 110-113 
    ISSN: 1615-6102
    Schlagwort(e): Calmodulin ; Ca2+ ; Cell polarity ; Budding yeast ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Microfilament
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Intracellular localization of calmodulin was examined in the budding yeast,Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Distribution of calmodulin changes in a characteristic way during the cell cycle. Calmodulin localizes to a patch at the presumptive bud site of unbudded cells. It concentrates at the bud tip in small-budded cells, and later it diffuses throughout the entire bud. At cytokinesis, calmodulin is largely at the neck between the mother and daughter cells. Double staining experiments have shown that the location of some polarized actin dots is coincident with that of calmodulin dots. Polarized localization of actin dots is observed in cells depleted of calmodulin, suggesting that calmodulin is not required for localization of the actin dots. Thecdc24 mutant that has a defect in bud assembly at the restrictive temperature fails to exhibit polarized localization of calmodulin, indicating that theCDC24 gene product is responsible for controlling the polarity of calmodulin.
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    The protein journal 10 (1991), S. 25-29 
    ISSN: 1573-4943
    Schlagwort(e): Screening protein structures ; electroblotting ; glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Pichia jadinii
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    Thema: Chemie und Pharmazie
    Notizen: Abstract Rapid assessment of structural relationships between yeast glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and other eukaryotic types of this enzyme is described. Separation and size estimation of large fragments by sodium dodecylsulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, electroblotting onto disks, and sequencer analysis provide data that permit alignment of the segments thus characterized with the related proteins, and utilize existing structural knowledge to assess new enzyme structures. Affinity labeling allows further correlations. The results establish the overall structural arrangements of the new proteins, including the location of the active-site lysine residue, even though the yeast enzyme structures are found to differ markedly from the few previously characterized glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases.
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  • 147
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Replication fork block ; rRNA gene ; 2 gm Plasmid ; 2D agarose gel electrophoresis
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The yeast genome has DNA replication fork blocking sites, that we have named sog sites, in the ribosomal RNA gene (rDNA) cluster. These are located at the 3′ end of the 35S rRNA transcription unit and they block replication fork movement in a direction opposite to that of RNA polymerase I. We cloned this replication blocking site into a YEp-type plasmid and analyzed DNA replication intermediates, using two-dimensional (2D) agarose gel electrophoresis. The blocking activity remained even on a plasmid not involved in 35S rRNA transcription and inhibited fork movement in the same polar fashion as on the yeast chromosome. To define the site further, smaller fragments were subcloned into the YEp-type plasmid. A small 109 by region exhibited sog activity and was located near the enhancer region for 35S rRNA transcription. It overlaps an essential element of the recombinational hot spot HOT1.
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  • 148
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 230 (1991), S. 241-250 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Yeast ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Adenylyl cyclase ; CDC25 ; RAS
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The TFS1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a dosage-dependent suppressor of cdc25 mutations. Overexpression of TFS1 does not alleviate defects of temperature-sensitive adenylyl cyclase (cdc35) or ras2 disruption mutations. The ability of TFS1 to suppress cdc25 is allele specific: the temperature-sensitive cdc25-1 mutation is suppressed efficiently but the cdc25-5 mutation and two disruption mutations are only partially suppressed. TFS1 maps to a previously undefined locus on chromosome XII between RDN1 and CDC42. The DNA sequence of TFS1 contains a single long open reading frame encoding a 219 amino acid polypeptide that is similar in sequence to two mammalian brain proteins. Insertion and deletion mutations in TFS1 are haploviable, indicating that TFS1 is not essential for growth.
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  • 149
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    Schlagwort(e): Ty elements ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Retrotransposon
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary To learn more about the variety of Ty elements capable of activating gene expression, we characterized 206 spontaneous Ty transpositions that activate the promoterless gene his3Δ4. Most of the Ty elements appear to be full-length, although a few deleted elements were recovered. Over 95% of the insertions belong to the Ty1 family, and the rest are Ty2 elements. The excessive number of Ty1 transpositions was unexpected because there are only 2-fold more Ty1 than Ty2 elements in the yeast strains used in the selection. However, there is 20-fold more Ty1 than Ty2 RNA present in these yeast strains. This difference in RNA level explains the greater number of Ty1 verses Ty2 transpositions at his3Δ4, because Ty elements transpose through an RNA intermediate. A similar association between the Ty transcript level and transpositional activation of his3Δ4 is obtained in cells expressing GAL1-promoted Ty2-H556 or Ty2-917 elements, but only if the element does not contain a marker. Genetically marked Ty2-H556NEO and-917NEO elements transpose into and activate his3Δ4 with the same efficiency as the previously characterized Ty1H3NEO element, but are underrepresented relative to the levels of TyNEO transcript. We also found that chromosomal Ty transcripts are even more abundant than previously estimated and comprise about 1% of total cellular RNA.
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  • 150
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 231 (1992), S. 194-200 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; DNA repair ; Nitrogen mustard ; Interstrand cross-links ; Nucleotide sequence
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary A 3.2 kb yeast DNA fragment containing the DNA interstrand cross-link-specific repair gene SNM1 has been sequenced. Two genes were identified. SNM1 has an open reading frame of 1983 by and codes for a 661 amino acid protein. Hydrophobic analysis shows that the protein is most probably not directly membrane bound. The second gene, UGX1, has an open reading frame of 573 by coding for a polypeptide of 191 amino acid residues. The two genes are arranged head to head and share a 192 by divergent promoter region that contains three TATAAA motives, two for the SNM1 and one for the UGX1 locus. Gene UGX1 has no apparent influence on the sensitivity of the cell to cross-linking nitrogen mustard, as its disruption in wild type does not increase sensitivity to nitrogen mustard and the presence of multiple copies of the gene fails to complement the nitrogen mustard sensitivity phenotype of snm1 disruption mutants. Northern analysis revealed that the expression of SNM1 yields an average of 0.3 copies/cell of a 2.4 kb transcript, while expression of UGX1 yields higher levels of a 0.8 kb poly(A)+ RNA.
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  • 151
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 231 (1992), S. 395-400 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): SUC2 ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Chromatin ; Micrococcal nuclease ; Promoter
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary We have previously suggested that two positioned nucleosomes are removed from the promoter of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae SUC2 gene upon derepression by glucose starvation. To gain further insight into the changes accompanying derepression at the chromatin level we have studied the chromatin structure of the SUC2 promoter in several mutants affecting SUC2 expression. The non-derepressible mutants snf1, snf2 and snf5 present a chromatin structure characteristic of the repressed state, irrespective of the presence or absence of glucose. The non-repressible mutants, mig1 and ssn6, as well as the double mutant snfs sn6 exhibit an opened chromatin structure even in the presence of glucose. These results suggest that the DNA-binding protein encoded by MIG1 is necessary to produce the characteristic pattern of repressed chromatin and that the SNF1 protein kinase is sufficient to produce the derepressed chromatin pattern. A model is presented for the transitions that result in opening up of the chromatin structure.
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  • 152
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    Schlagwort(e): Bacterial conjugation ; Cyanobacteria ; IncQ plasmids ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; DNA methylation
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The promiscuous IncQ plasmid pKT210 (Cmr, Smr) is efficiently transferred by transpecific conjugation from Escherichia coli to the facultatively heterotrophic cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 when mobilized by a helper plasmid coding for IncP transfer functions. The IncQ plasmid is stably maintained in the cyanobacterium as an autonomously replicating multicopy plasmid with no detectable structural alterations and can be recovered by transformation back to E. coli when using a mcrA mcrB host. Thus, the replicative host-range of IncQ plasmids extends beyond purple bacteria to the distinct procaryotic taxon of cyanobacteria, allowing the use of these small plasmids as convenient cloning vectors in Synechocystis PCC6803 and presumably also in cyanobacteria that are not amenable to genetic transformation. In contrast, an IncQ plasmid bearing the TRP1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae failed to replicate when transferred to that yeast by transformation.
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  • 153
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Sodium efflux ; Lithium efflux ; ATPase
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The ENA2 gene encoding a P-type ATPase involved in Na+ and Li+ effluxes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been isolated. The putative protein encoded by ENA2 differs only in thirteen amino acids from the protein encoded by ENA1/PMR2. However, ENA2 has a very low level of expression and for this reason did not confer significant Li+ tolerance on a Li+ sensitive strain. ENA1 and ENA2 are the first two units of a tandem array of four highly homologous genes with probably homologous functions.
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  • 154
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 237 (1993), S. 375-384 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Regulation of meiosis ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; IME1
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The IME1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for initiation of meiosis. Transcription of IME1 is detected under conditions which are known to induce initiation of meiosis, namely starvation for nitrogen and glucose, and the presence of MATa1 and MATα2 gene products. In this paper we show that IME1 is also subject to translational regulation. Translation of IME1 mRNA is achieved either upon nitrogen starvation, or upon G1 arrest. In the presence of nutrients, constitutively elevated transcription of IME1 is also sufficient for the translation of IME1 RNA. Four different conditions were found to cause expression of Imel protein in vegetative cultures: elevated transcription levels due to the presence of IME1 on a multicopy plasmid; elevated transcription provided by a Gal-IME1 construct; G1 arrest due to α-factor treatment; G1 arrest following mild heat-shock treatment of cdc28 diploids. Using these conditions, we obtained evidence that starvation is required not only for transcription and efficient translation of IME1, but also for either the activation of Ime1 protein or for the induction/activation of another factor that, either alone or in combination with Ime1, induces meiosis.
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  • 155
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 237 (1993), S. 449-459 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Transcription ; spt mutants
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Mutations in the SPT4 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were isolated as suppressors of δ insertion mutations that interfere with adjacent gene transcription. Recent genetic evidence indicates that the SPT4 protein functions with two other proteins, SPT5 and SPT6, in some aspect of transcription initiation. In this work we have characterized the SPT4 gene and we demonstrate that spt4 mutations, like spt5 and spt6 mutations, cause changes in transcription. Using the cloned SPT4 gene, spt4 null mutations were constructed; in contrast to spt5 and spt6 null mutants, which are inviable, spt4 null mutants are viable and have an Spt− phenotype. The DNA sequence of the SPT4 gene predicts a protein product of 102 amino acids that contains four cysteine residues positioned similarly to those of zinc binding proteins. Mutational analysis suggests that at least some of these cysteines are essential for SPT4 function. Genetic mapping showed that SPT4 is a previously unidentified gene that maps to chromosome VII, between ADE6 and CLY8.
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  • 156
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 237 (1993), S. 463-466 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; cyrl-2 ; Nonsense mutation ; CAMP
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary cyrl-2 is a temperature-sensitive mutation of the yeast adenylate cyclase structural gene, CYR1. The cyrl-2 mutation has been suggested to be a UGA mutation since a UGA suppressor SUP201 has been isolated as a suppressor of the cyrl-2 mutation. Construction of chimeric genes restricted the region containing the cyrl-2 mutation, and the cyrl-2 UGA mutation was identified at codon 1282, which lies upstream of the region coding for the catalytic domain of adenylate cyclase. Alterations in the region upstream of the cyrl-2 mutation site result in null mutations. The complete open reading frame of the cyrl-2 gene expressed under the control of the GAL1 promoter complemented cyrl-dl in a galactose-dependent manner. These results suggest that at the permissive temperature weak readthrough occurs at the cyrl-2 mutation site to produce low levels of active adenylate cyclase. An endogenous suppressor in yeast cells is assumed to be responsible for this readthrough.
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  • 157
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 238 (1993), S. 6-16 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; cAMP MKS1 ; GAL11
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract In order to isolate genes that function downstream of the Ras-cAMP pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a YEp13-based genomic library was screened for clones that inhibit growth of cells with diminished A-kinase activity. One such gene, MKS1, was found to encode a hydrophilic 52 kDa protein that shares weak homology with the yeast SPT2/SIN1 gene product. Three lines of evidence suggest that the MKS1 gene product is a negative regulator downstream of the Ras-cAMP pathway: (i) overexpression of MKS1 inhibits growth of cyrl disruptant cells on YPD medium containing a low concentration of cAMP; (ii) overexpression of MKS1 does not affect TPK1 expression; and (iii) the temperature-sensitive cyrl-230 mutation is partially suppressed by mks1 disruption. The mks1 mutant shows similar phenotypes to gal11/spt13, i.e., it cannot grow on YPGal containing ethidium bromide at 25°C, or on YPGly or SGal at 37°C. The mks1 gal11 double mutant shows more marked phenotypic changes than the single mutants. These results suggest that MKS1 is involved in transcriptional regulation of several genes by cAMP.
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  • 158
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    Schlagwort(e): Schizosaccharomyces pombe ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Signal transduction ; Sexual differentiation ; Protein kinase
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary In fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe), the mat1-Pm gene, which is required for entry into meiosis, is expressed in response to a pheromone signal. Cells carrying a mutation in the ste8 gene are unable to induce transcription of mat1-Pm in response to pheromone, suggesting that the ste8 gene product functions in the signal transduction pathway. The ste8 + gene encodes a 659 amino acid putative protein kinase, which is identical to the previously identified byr2 suppressor of the ras1 defect. Furthermore, ste8 + is highly homologous to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae STE11 gene, which functions in signal transduction in budding yeast. Expression of the S. cerevisiae STE11 gene in S. pombe ste8 mutants restores the ability to transcribe mat1-Pm in response to pheromone. Also, such cells become capable of conjugation and sporulation. When mat1-Pm is artifically expressed from a heterologous promoter, ste8 mutant cells will enter meiosis. This demonstrates that the meiotic defect of ste8 mutants is due to the absence of the mat1-Pm gene product.
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  • 159
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    Schlagwort(e): pso4-1 mutation ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Mitotic recombination ; 8-Methoxypsoralen photoreaction ; his4 gene duplication
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Spontaneous mitotic recombination was examined in the haploid pso4-1 mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and in the corresponding wild-type strain. Using a genetic system involving a duplication of the his4 gene it was shown that the pso4-1 mutation decreases at least fourfold the spontaneous rate of mitotic recombination. The frequency of spontaneous recombination was reduced tenfold in pso4-1 strains, as previously observed in the rad52-1 mutant. However, whereas the rad52-1 mutation specifically reduces gene conversion, the pso4-1 mutation reduces both gene conversion and reciprocal recombination. Induced mitotic recombination was also studied in pso4-1 mutant and wild-type strains after treatment with 8-methoxypsoralen plus UVA and 254 nm UV irradiation. Consistent with previous results, the pso4-1 mutation was found strongly to affect recombination induction.
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  • 160
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; AR07 gene ; Chorismate mutase ; GCN4 ; Transcriptional regulation
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The gene AR07 encodes the monofunctional enzyme chorismate mutase, a branch point enzyme in the aromatic amino acid biosynthetic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We investigated the transcription of the AR07 gene. Three 5′ ends at positions − 36, − 56 and − 73 and the 3′ end of the transcripts 146 bp downstream of the translational stop codon were mapped. As in the promoters of other aromatic amino acid biosynthetic genes, a recognition element for the GCN4 transcriptional activator of amino acid biosynthesis is located 425 base pairs (bp) upstream of the first transcriptional start point. This element binds GCN4 specifically in vitro. Northern analysis and determination of the specific enzyme activity reveals however, that the element is not sufficient to mediate transcriptional regulation by GCN4 in vivo. We thus suggest that in addition to a consensus sequence capable of binding the GCN4 protein other factors like, for example, chromatin structure, determine whether a recognition site for a transcription factor functions as an upstream activation sequence.
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  • 161
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 240 (1993), S. 36-42 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Yeast ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; DNA synthesis genes ; Cell cycle regulation
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Two mutants have been isolated in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in which transcripts from at least CDC8, CDC9, CDC21 (TMP1) and POL1 genes are expressed constitutively in cells blocked at START by use of either α-pheromone or the cdc28 mutation. The transcripts from these genes also persist in mutant stationary phase cells; however, cell cycle regulation of these four DNA synthesis genes occurs normally in late G1. The mutation therefore does not appear to lie in the MCB-DSC1 (MBF) system that controls the periodic regulation of the genes, but must affect some control mechanism regulating basal levels of expression.
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  • 162
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Splicing ; Nuclear structure
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary We report on the characterization of the yeast prp20-1 mutant. In this temperature-sensitive mutant, multiple steps of mRNA metabolism are affected. The prp20-1 mutant strain showed alterations in mRNA steady-state levels, defective mRNA splicing and changes in transcription initiation or termination when shifted from the permissive to the non-permissive temperature. In addition, a change in the structure of the nucleus in these cells became apparent. Electron microscopy revealed an altered structure of the nucleoplasm of prp20-1 mutant cells when grown at the no-permissive temperature that was not observed in cells grown at the permissive temperature or in wild-type cells. The wild-type PRP20 gene was isolated and sequenced. The putative PRP20 protein has a molecular weight of 52 kDa. We found that the PRP20 gene is identical to the yeast SRM1 gene (Clark and Sprague 1989). In addition, the PRP20 protein sequence shows significant sequence similarity to the human RCC1 protein (Ohtsubo et al. 1987). This protein has been implicated in the control of chromosome condensation. Based on the phenotype of the prp20-1 mutant and the observed sequence similarity to the human RCC1 protein, we postulate that the yeast PRP20 protein is involved in the control of nuclear organization.
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  • 163
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 224 (1990), S. 111-118 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Translation ; Splicing ; Paromomycin
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The MSS51 gene product has been previously shown to be involved in the splicing of the mitochondrial pre-mRNA of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COX1). We show here that it is specifically required for the translation of the COX1 mRNA. Furthermore, the paromomycin-resistance mutation (P inf454 supR ) which affects the 15 S mitoribosomal RNA, interferes, directly or indirectly, with the action of the MSS51 gene product. Possible roles of the MSS51 protein on the excision of COX1 introns are discussed.
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  • 164
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 224 (1990), S. 257-263 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): General Control ; Thermotolerance ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary In Saccharomyces cerevisiae starvation for a single amino acid activates the transcription of a set of genes belonging to different amino acid biosynthetic pathways (General Control, GC). We show that mutants affected in GC regulation are also affected in their response to thermal stress. Moreover, growth conditions that are known to induce heat shock proteins induce the GC response. However, unlike heat shock proteins, the transcriptional activator of GC, GCN4, is not induced after a short exposure to heat, and in gcn mutant strains induction of heat resistance is normal.
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  • 165
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 244 (1994), S. 260-268 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Amino acid permeases ; Transport ; Tryptophan
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract SCM2, a novel gene encoding a yeast tryptophan permease, was cloned as a high-copy-number suppressor of cse2-1. The cse2-1 mutation causes cold sensitivity, temperature sensitivity and chromosome missegregation. However, only the cold-sensitive phenotype of cse2-1 cells is suppressed by SCM2 at high copy. SCM2 is located on the left arm of yeast chromosome XV, adjacent to SUP3 and encodes a 65 kDa protein that is highly homologous to known amino acid permeases. Four out of five disrupted scm2 alleles (scm2Δ1-Δ4) cause slow growth, whereas one disrupted allele (scm2Δ5) is lethal. Cells with both the scm2Δ1 and trp1-Δ101 mutations exhibit a synthetic cold-sensitive phenotype and grow much more slowly at the permissive temperature than cells with a single scm2Δ1 or trp1-Δ101 mutation. A region of the predicted SCM2 protein is identical to the partial sequence recently reported for the yeast tryptophan permease TAP2, indicating that SCM2 and TAP2 probably encode the same protein.
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  • 166
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    Schlagwort(e): Drug sensitivity ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Major facilitator superfamily ; Drug expulsion
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Several pleiotropic drug sensitivities have been described in yeast. Some involve the loss of putative drug efflux pumps analogous to mammalian P-glycoproteins, others are caused by defects in sterol synthesis resulting in higher plasma membrane permeability. We have constructed a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain that exhibits a strong crystal violet-sensitive phenotype. By selecting cells of the supersensitive strain for normal sensitivity after transformation with a wild-type yeast genomic library, a complementing 10-kb DNA fragment was isolated, a 3.4-kb subfragment of which was sufficient for complementation. DNA sequence analysis revealed that the complementing fragment comprised the recently sequenced SGE1 gene, a partial multicopy suppressor of gal11 mutations. The supersensitive strain was found to be a sge1 null mutant. Overexpression of SGE1 on a high-copy-number plasmid increased the resistance of the supersensitive strain. Disruption of SGE1 in a wild-type strain increased the sensitivity of the strain. These features of the SGE1 phenotype, as well as sequence homologies of SGE1 at the amino acid level, confirm that the Sge1 protein is a member of the drug-resistance protein family within the major facilitator superfamily (MFS).
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  • 167
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Transcription factor ; Zinc finger ; Multidrug resistance
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    Notizen: Abstract TheSaccharomyces cerevisiae PDR3 gene, located near the centromere of chromosome II, has been completely sequenced and characterised. Mutationspdr3-1 andpdr3-2, which confer resistance to several antibiotics can be complemented by a wild-type allele of the PDR3 gene. The sequence of the wild-typePDR3 gene revealed the presence of a long open reading frame capable of encoding a 976-amino acid protein. The protein contains a single Zn(II)2Cys6 binuclear-type zinc finger homologous to the DNA-binding motifs of other transcriptional activators from lower eukaryotes. Evidence that the PDR3 protein is a transcriptional activator was provided by demonstrating that DNA-bound LexA-PDR3 fusion proteins stimulate expression of a nearby promoter containing LexA binding sites. The use of LexA-PDR3 fusions revealed that the protein contains two activation domains, one localised near the N-terminal, cysteine-rich domain and the other localised at the C-terminus. The salient feature of the PDR3 protein is its similarity to the protein coded byPDR1, a gene responsible forpleiotropicdrugresistance. The two proteins show 36% amino acid identity over their entire length and their zinc finger DNA-binding domains are highly conserved. The fact that the absence of both PDR1 and PDR3 (simultaneous disruption of the two genes) enhances multidrug sensitivity strongly suggests that the two transcriptional factors have closely related functions.
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 226 (1991), S. 224-232 
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; SAM1 and SAM2 genes ; Transcription
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary S-adenosyl-l-methionine (AdoMet) is synthesized by transfer of the adenosyl moiety of ATP to the sulfur atom of methionine. This reaction is catalysed by AdoMet synthetase. In all eukaryotic organisms studied so far, multiple forms of AdoMet synthetases have been reported and from their recent study, it appears that AdoMet synthetase is an exceptionally well conserved enzyme through evolution. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we have demonstrated the existence of two AdoMet synthetases encoded by genes SAM1 and SAM2. Yeast, which is able to concentrate exogenously added AdoMet, is thus a particularly useful biological system to understand the role and the physiological significance of the preservation of two almost identical AdoMet synthetases. The analysis of the expression of the two SAM genes in different genetic backgrounds during growth under different conditions shows that the expression of SAM1 and SAM2 is regulated differently. The regulation of SAM1 expression is identical to that of other genes implicated in AdoMet metabolism, where as SAM2 shows a specific pattern of regulation. A careful analysis of the expression of the two genes and of the variations in the methionine and AdoMet intracellular pools during the growth of different strains lead us to postulate the existence of two different AdoMet pools, each one suppplied by a different AdoMet synthetase but in equilibrium with each other. This could be a means of storing AdoMet whenever this metabolite is overproduced, thus avoiding the degradation of a metabolite the synthesis of which is energetically expensive.
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  • 169
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Calmodulin-binding protein ; Protein phosphatase (2B type) ; Calcineurin A
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomic clones that encode calmodulin-binding proteins were isolated by screening a λgt11 expression library using125I-labeled calmodulin as probe. Among the cloned yeast genes, we found two closely related genes (CMP1 andCMP2) that encode proteins homologous to the catalytic subunit of phosphoprotein phosphatase. The presumed CMP1 protein (62999 Da) and CMP2 protein (68496 Da) contain a 23 amino acid sequence very similar to those identified as calmodulin-binding sites in many calmodulin-regulated proteins. The yeast genes encode proteins especially homologous to the catalytic subunit of mammalian phosphoprotein phosphatase type 213 (calcineurin). The products of theCMP1 andCMP2 genes were identified by immunoblot analysis of cell extracts as proteins of 62000 and 64000 Da, respectively. Gene disruption experiments demonstrated that elimination of either or both of these genes had no effect on cell viability, indicating that these genes are not essential for normal cell growth.
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  • 170
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    Schlagwort(e): Nuclear suppressor gene ; Mitochondrial functions ; Glucose repression ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract We previously isolated a nuclear 5.7 kb genomic fragment carrying the NAM7/UPF1 gene, which is able to suppress mitochondrial splicing deficiency when present in multiple copies. We show here that an immediately adjacent gene ISF1 (Increasing Suppression Factor) increases the efficiency of the NAM7/UPF1 suppressor activity. The ISF1 gene has been independently isolated as the MBR3 gene and comparison of the ISF1 predicted protein sequence with data libraries revealed a significant similarity with the MBRI yeast protein. The ISF1 and NAM7 genes are transcribed in the same direction, and RNase mapping allowed the precise location of their termini within the intergenic region to be determined. The ISF1 gene is not essential for cell viability or respiratory growth. However as for many mitochondrial genes, ISF1 expression is sensitive to fermentative repression; in contrast expression of the NAM7 gene is unaffected by glucose. We propose that ISF1 could influence the NAM7/UPF1 function, possibly at the level of mRNA turnover, thus modulating the expression of nuclear genes involved in mitochondrial biogenesis.
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  • 171
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; recA gene expression ; Resistance to ionizing and ultraviolet radiation
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The Escherichia coli recA protein coding region was ligated into an extrachromosomally replicating yeast expression vector downstream of the yeast alcohol dehydrogenase promoter region to produce plasmid pADHrecA. Transformation of the wild-type yeast strains YNN-27 and 7799-4B, as well as the recombination-deficient rad52-t C5-6 mutant, with this shuttle plasmid resulted in the expression of the bacterial 38 kDa RecA protein in exponential phase cells. The wild-type YNN27 and 7799-4B transformants expressing the bacterial recA gene showed increased resistance to the toxic effects of both ionizing and ultraviolet radiation. RecA moderately stimulated the UV-induced mutagenic response of 7799-4B cells. Transformation of the rad52-t mutant with plasmid pADHrecA did not result in the complementation of sensitivity to ionizing radiation. Thus, the RecA protein endows the yeast cells with additional activities, which were shown to be error-prone and dependent on the RAD52 gene.
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  • 172
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    Schlagwort(e): Fungi ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Zinc ; Processing ; Pro region
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The neutral protease II (NpII) from Aspergillus oryzae is a zinc-containing metalloprotease with some unique properties. To elucidate its structure, we isolated a full-length cDNA clone for NpII. Sequence analysis reveals that NpII has a prepro region consisting of 175 amino acids preceding the mature region, which consists of 177 amino acids. As compared with other microbial metalloproteases, NpII is found to be unique in that it shares only a limited homology with them around two zinc ligand His residues and that the positions of the other zinc ligand (Glu) and the active site (His) cannot be established by homology. When a plasmid designed to express the prepro NpII cDNA was introduced into Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the transformant was cultured in YPD medium (2% glucose, 2% polypeptone, 1% yeast extract), it secreted a proNpII. However, in a culture of the same medium containing 0.2 mM ZnCl2, it secreted a mature NpII with a specific activity and N-terminus identical to those of native NpII. This observation suggests that either an autoproteolytic activity or a yeast protease effected the processing.
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  • 173
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Mitochondria ; Cytochrome b ; Complex II ; HAP2/3/4
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Computer-assisted structural analysis of the predicted product of the previously described open reading frame (ORF) YKL4 located on the left arm of chromosome XI of Saccharomyces cerevisiae revealed a high degree of similarity (〉50%) to bovine cytochrome b 560, the sdhC polypeptide of the Escherichia coli succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) complex and the protein specified by ORF137 located on the chloroplast DNA of Marchantia polymorpha. Disruption of the yeast gene severely impaired mitochondrial function, while Northern analysis showed it to be subject to catabolite repression. Deletion analysis of the CYB3 promoter identified a single HAP2/3/4-binding element that is necessary and sufficient for carbon source-dependent transcriptional regulation. These experiments also suggested the presence of additional, as yet unidentified, transcriptional control elements, both negative and positive. Taken together, these data lead us to conclude that the CYB3 gene encodes the yeast homolog of the bovine cytochrome b 560 component of complex II of the mitochondrial electron transport chain.
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  • 174
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; CYP1(HAP1) protein ; Electron transport ; Oxygen and heme regulation ; Trans regulation
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract CYP1 determines the expression of several genes whose transcription is heme-dependent in yeast. It exerts regulatory functions even in the absence of heme, usually considered to be its effector. It mediates both positive and negative effects, depending on the target gene and on the redox state of the cell. In the presence of heme, it binds through a cysteine-rich domain in which a histidine residue occupies the position of the sixth and essential cysteine of the otherwise classical zinc cluster DNA-binding domain exemplified by GAL4. We constructed specific missense mutations in the potential CYP1 zinc cluster domain by site-directed mutagenesis and looked for regulatory effects of the mutated proteins under specific physiological conditions. We show that CYP1 does belong to the zinc cluster regulatory family since a sixth essential cysteine residue is indeed present, albeit at a modified position when compared to the consensus sequence. We also show that the amino acid preceding the first cysteine residue of the DNA-binding domain critically affects the efficiency of regulation both in the presence and in the absence of heme: mutations known to affect DNA binding under heme-sufficient conditions also affect regulation under heme-deficient conditions. We therefore surmise that regulation under hemedeficient conditions is dependent upon DNA binding.
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  • 175
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    Schlagwort(e): Multicopy suppressors ; HAP2/3/4 activation complex ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Two new yeast genes, named MBR1 and MBR3, were isolated as multicopy suppressors of the growth defect of a strain lacking the HAP2 transcriptional activator. Both genes when overexpressed can also suppress the growth defect of hap3 and hap4 null mutants. However, overexpression of MBRI cannot substitute for the HAP2/3/4 complex in activation of the CYC1 gene. Nucleotide sequencing of MBR1 and MBR3 revealed that these two genes encode serine-rich, hydrophilic proteins with regions of significant homology. The functional importance of one of these conserved regions was shown by mutagenesis. Disruption of MBR1 leads to a partial growth defect on glycerol medium. Disruption of MBR3 has no major effect but the double disruptant shows a synthetic phenotype suggesting that the MBR1 and MBR3 gene products participate in common function.
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  • 176
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 233 (1992), S. 315-318 
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    Schlagwort(e): RNA1 ; Ribonuclease/angiogenin inhibitor ; Homology ; RNA metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Mutations in theRNA1 gene ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae, which encodes an essential cytosolic protein, affect the production and processing of all major classes of RNA. The mechanisms underlying these effects are not at all understood. Detailed comparative sequence analyses revealed that the RNA1 protein belongs to a superfamily, the members of which contain repetitive “leucine-rich motifs” (LRM). Within this superfamily RNA1 is most closely related to the ribonuclease/angiogenin inhibitor (RAI), which is a tightly binding inhibitor of ribonucleolytic activities in mammals. These results not only provide important clues to the structure, function and evolution of the RNAI protein, but also have intriguing implications for possible novel functions of RAI.
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  • 177
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    Schlagwort(e): Ricin ; Toxin ; Mutant ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Expression
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Yeast transformants containing integrated copies of a galactose-regulated, ricin toxin A chain (RTA) expression plasmid were constructed and used in an attempt to isolate RTA-resistant yeast mutants. Analysis of RNA from mutant strains demonstrated that approximately half contained ribosomes that had been partially modified by RTA, although all the strains analysed transcribed full-length RTA RNA. The mutant strains could have mutations in yeast genes giving rise to RTA-resistant ribosomes or they could contain alterations within the RTA-encoding DNA causing production of mutant toxin. Ribosomes isolated from mutant strains were shown to be susceptible to RTA modification in vitro suggesting that the strains contain alterations in RTA. This paper describes the detailed analysis of one mutant strain which has a point mutation that changes serine 203 to asparagine in RTA protein. Although serine 203 lies outside the proposed active site of RTA its alteration leads to the production of RTA protein with a greatly reduced level of ribosome modifying activity. This decrease in activity apparently allows yeast cells to survive expression of RTA as only a proportion of the ribosomes become modified. We demonstrate that the mutant RTA preferentially modifies 26S rRNA in free 60S subunits and has lower catalytic activity compared with native RTA when produced in Escherichia coli. Such mutations provide a valuable means of identifying residues important in RTA catalysis and of further understanding the precise mechanism of action of RTA.
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  • 178
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Translation ; Initiation factor ; Chromosomal mapping ; Pulsed-field electrophoresis
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Translation initiation factor eIF-5A is an abundant protein in which a lysine residue is modified by spermidine to form the amino acid derivative, hypusine. The factor is encoded by two genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, called TIF51A and TIF51B, which are regulated reciprocally by oxygen and by heme. TIF51B, also called ANBI, is located on chromosome X in a region called COR. We physically mapped TIF51A and its associated serine tRNA2 gene by the method of chromosome fragmentation and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. TIF5IA maps 90 kb from the left end of chromosome V in a region called ARC. The COR and ARC regions contain CYCI and CYC7, respectively, and appear to be duplications carrying numerous related genes. The arrangements of related genes in the two regions are incompatible with a duplication mechanism involving a circular intermediate.
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  • 179
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; CTP synthetase ; Pyrimidine pathway ; Intracellular pyrimidine pool ; Non-essential gene
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The URA7 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes CTP synthetase (EC 6.3.4.2) which catalyses the conversion of uridine 5′-triphosphate to cytidine 5′-triphosphate, the last step of the pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway. We have cloned and sequenced the URA 7 gene. The coding region is 1710 by long and the deduced protein sequence shows a strong degree of homology with bacterial and human CTP synthetases. Gene disruption shows that URA7 is not an essential gene: the level of the intracellular CTP pool is roughly the same in the deleted and the wild-type strains, suggesting that an alternative pathway for CTP synthesis exists in yeast. This could involve either a divergent duplicated gene or a different route beginning with the amination of uridine mono- or diphosphate.
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  • 180
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 220 (1990), S. 269-276 
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    Schlagwort(e): GABA ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Transcription ; DNA sequence ; Zinc finger
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The UGA3 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for 4-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-dependent induction of the UGA1, UGA2 and UGA4 genes which encode the two GABA catabolic enzymes and a GABA-specific permease, respectively. Measurements of UGA1-specific transcripts show that induction of UGA1 correlates with accumulation of its RNA and requires a functional UGA3 gene. A 2 kb DNA fragment complementing the uga3 mutation was isolated and shown to contain the UGA3 gene. The primary structure of the UGA3 encoded protein was deduced from the DNA sequence, and contains an N-terminal, cysteine-rich motif similar in sequence to regions found in other fungal regulatory proteins and which are supposed to form zinc finger structures involved in DNA binding. Mutations were identified in the UGA3 genes isolated from uninducible and constitutive uga3 alleles. One case of intragenic complementation between two uninducible uga3 mutants is reported, indicating a possible oligomeric structure for UGA3. The role of UGA3 is discussed in relation to its genetic properties and its predicted structure.
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  • 181
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 220 (1990), S. 283-288 
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    Schlagwort(e): Chorismate mutase ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Repression
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The Saccharomyces cerevisiae ARO7 gene was cloned by screening a wild-type gene bank for complementation of an aro7 auxotrophic mutant. In vitro mutagenesis of the isolated plasmid (pJFB1) gave several transformants resistant to levels of the phenylalanine analogue 2-thienylalanine inhibitory to the wild-type transformant. Chorismate mutase assays indicated that two of the mutants (J14-26IV6 and J14-26IV9) were resistant to feedback inhibition by tyrosine displayed by wild-type strains. Analysis of the effect of other aromatic amino acids on chorismate mutase activity showed that tryptophan counteracted this inhibition. Analysis of the effect of tyrosine in the growth medium on enzyme activity indicated that the wild-type ARO7 gene was repressed by tyrosine, a phenomenon not previously reported. Two of the 2-thienylalanine resistant mutants (J14-26IV3 and J14-26IV9) appeared to be resistant to this repression. Transcriptional analysis confirmed that the level of ARO7 transcript decreased with increasing tyrosine concentration. In stain J14-26IV9 the ARO7 transcript level was not affected. J14-26IV9, therefore, appears to be a double mutant, resistant to both feedback inhibition and repression by tyrosine.
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  • 182
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 232 (1992), S. 58-64 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Essential gene ; Respiration ; Mutants ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary A new gene essential for cell viability and indispensable for the biogenesis of a functional respiratory chain in Saccharomyces cerevisiae was isolated by complementing a temperature-sensitive mutant. This conditional nuclear mutation selectively affects oxidative phosphorylation at restrictive temperatures. At the molecular level a severe and complex defect inside mitochondria is observed, with drastically reduced levels of mitochondrial transcripts. Surprisingly a null mutation in this nuclear gene in a haploid yeast strain leads to cell death. Spores containing a disrupted copy of the gene exhibit a severe growth defect and cell division stops irreversibly after 3 to 4 days. It is shown that the null and conditional mutants are indeed allelic. This finding demonstrates a dual function of the gene product in oxidative phosphorylation and vegetative growth. The putative protein product, as deduced from the sequence of the relevant reading frame is characterized by a low molecular weight of approximately 14 kDa, a high content of charged amino acids and a very low codon bias index. A transcript of low abundance and with a length of about 600 nucleotides can be assigned to this gene.
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  • 183
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    Schlagwort(e): DNA damage ; Excision repair ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Gene regulation
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae the RAD2 gene is absolutely required for damage-specific incision of DNA during nucleotide excision repair and is inducible by DNA-damaging agents. In the present study we correlated sensitivity to killing by DNA-damaging agents with the deletion of previously defined specific promoter elements. Deletion of the element DRE2 increased the UV sensitivity of cells in both the G1/early S and S/G2 phases of the cell cycle as well as in stationary phase. On the other hand, increased UV sensitivity associated with deletion of the sequence-related element DRE1 was restricted to cells irradiated in G1/S. Specific binding of protein(s) to the promoter elements DRE1 and DRE2 was observed under non-inducing conditions using gel retardation assays. Exposure of cells to DNA-damaging agents resulted in increased protein binding that was dependent on de novo protein synthesis.
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  • 184
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Cytochrome c 1 ; Promoter dissection ; HAP1, HAP2 transcription factors ; Centromere and promoter-binding factor (CPF1)
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The nuclear gene for cytochrome c 1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (CYT1) was localized on chromosome XV. Its upstream region was identified by functional complementation. Fusion to the lacZ reporter gene on a CEN plasmid allowed study of the effect of carbon sources and of specific deletion mutations on expression of the gene in yeast transformants. Detailed promoter analysis combined with expression studies in recipient strains defective in regulatory genes identified cis-acting sites and transcription factors involved in the regulated expression of the cytochrome c 1 gene. These analyses showed that, in the presence of glucose, transcription of CYT1 is positively controlled by oxygen, presumably through the haem signal, and mediated by the HAP1-encoded transactivator. It is additionally regulated by the HAP2/3/4 complex which mediates gene activation mainly under glucose-free conditions. Basal transcription is, in part, effected by CPF1, a centromere and promoter-binding factor.
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  • 185
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    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Nuclear gene ; Mitochondrial splicing ; Suppression ; RNA binding proteins
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    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary We have characterized the nuclear geneNAM8 inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. It acts as a suppressor of mitochondrial splicing deficiencies when present on a multicopy plasmid. The suppressed mutations affect RNA folding and are located in both group I and group II introns. The gene is weakly transcribed in wildtype strains, its overexpression is a prerequisite for the suppressor action. Inactivation of theNAM8 gene does not affect cell viability, mitochondrial function or mitochondrial genome stability. TheNAM8 gene encodes a protein of 523 amino acids which includes two conserved (RNP) motifs common to RNA-binding proteins from widely different organisms. This homology with RNA-binding proteins, together with the intronic location of the suppressed mitochondrial mutations, suggests that the NAM8 protein could be a non-essential component of the mitochondrial splicing machinery and, when present in increased amounts, it could convert a deficient intron RNA folding pattern into a productive one.
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  • 186
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 222 (1990), S. 87-96 
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    Schlagwort(e): Glucoamylase ; Sporulation ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus ; STA genes
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The single glucoamylase gene (SGA1) of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is expressed exclusively during the sporulation phase of the life cycle. Enzymatic studies and nucleic acid sequence comparisons have shown that the SGA1 glucoamylase is closely related to the secreted enzymes of S. cerevisiae var. diastaticus. The latter are encoded by any of three unlinked STA genes, which have been proposed to derive from the ancestral SGA1 form by genomic rearrangement. We show that the regulation of SGA1 is distinct from that of the other members of the STA gene family. SGA1 expression did not respond to STA10, the primary determinant of glucoamylase expression from STA2. Unlike STA2, SGA1 was not regulated directly by the mating type locus. Expression of SGA1 depended on the function of the MAT products in supporting sporulation and not on the formation of haploid progeny spores or on the composition of the mating type locus per se. We conclude that the STA genes acquired regulation by STA10 and MAT by the genomic rearrangements that led to their formation. This regulation is thus distinct from that of the ancestral SGA1 gene.
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  • 187
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 222 (1990), S. 169-175 
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    Schlagwort(e): Aspergillus nidulans ; Schizosaccharomyces pombe ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Drug resistance ; β-tubulin mutation
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Rhizoxin, an antibiotic, exhibits potent anti-mitotic activity against most eucaryotic cells including those of higher vertebrates, plants and fungi by binding to β-tubulin. ThebenA gene of three independently isolated rhizoxin-resistant (Rhir) mutants ofAspergillus nidulans was cloned, sequenced and compared with that of the wild-type, rhizoxin-sensitive (Rhis) strain. In all three Rhir mutants, the AAC codon for Asn-100 of thebenA β-tubulin gene was altered to ATC, coding for Ile. Sequence displacement experiments confirmed that the substitution of Ile for Asn-100 confers resistance to rhizoxin in this organism. The amino acid sequences of β-tubulin surrounding the 100th amino acid residue from the N-terminus including Asn-100 are highly conserved with a few exceptions. The fission yeastSchizosaccharomyces pombe and the budding yeastSaccharomyces cerevisiae are naturally occurring Rhir organisms whose β-tubulin genes encode Ile and Val respectively at the 100th amino acid residue. The Ile-100 ofS. pombe and the Val-100 ofS. cerevisiae were altered to Asn using site-directed mutagenesis and gene displacement techniques. The resultant haploid strains of these two yeasts uniquely expressing β-tubulin (Asn-100) instead of β-tubulin (Ile-100 or Val-100) were found to be Rhis. Haploid yeast expressing β-tubulin (Asn-100) is normal except for its sensitivity to rhizoxin. These results suggest that rhizoxin resistance has a common basis in both naturally occurring species and experimentally selected mutants in the substitution of Ile or Val for Asn-100 in β-tubulin.
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  • 188
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    Schlagwort(e): Rhizopus aspartic proteinase ; Splicing of intron ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The intron of the Rhizopus aspartic proteinase gene (RNAP-I) was modified by in vitro mutagenesis and examined for its splicing efficiency in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The wild-type intron of the RNAP-I gene was not spliced at all in spite of its structural similarity to introns of S. cerevisiae. The primary transcript of the RNAP-I gene was converted to correctly translatable mRNA only when the complete consensus sequence of S. cerevisiae introns (i.e. 5″-GTATGT-----TACTAAC-----TAG-3″) was introduced into its intron, although the efficiency of splicing was low. It is also shown that transformants carrying the RNAP-I gene with the complete consensus sequence of S. cerevisiae introns produce active RNAP-I protein.
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  • 189
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    Schlagwort(e): Cochliobolus heterostrophus race T disease ; Maize cytoplasmic male sterility ; Mitochondria ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary We asked whether the mitochondrial T-urf13 gene, associated with the male sterility phenotype of T cytoplasm in maize, can be expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and whether this expression can mimic the effects observed in maize. We introduced the universal code equivalent of the T-urf13 gene into the S. cerevisiae nucleus by transformation and directed its translation product into mitochondria by means of a fusion with the targeting presequence from Neurospora crassa ATPase subunit 9. We show that expression of the universal code equivalent of the T-urf13 gene in the yeast nucleus does indeed mimic its effects in maize: respiratory growth of yeast is inhibited, respiration-deficient cytoplasmic mutants accumulate and NADH oxidation of isolated mitochondria is uncoupled. All these effects are observed only if the mitochondrial targeting peptide and methomyl or HmT toxin are present.
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  • 190
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 223 (1990), S. 49-57 
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    Schlagwort(e): Neurospora crassa ; Heterologous gene expression ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Domain independence ; TRP1
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary The trifunctional TRP1 gene from Neurospora crassa (N-TRP1) was subcloned into the yeast-Escherichia coli shuttle vector YEp13 and expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The three activities of the N-TRP1 gene product were detected in yeast mutants that lacked either N-(5′-phosphoribosyl) anthranilate (PRA) isomerase or both the glutamine amidotransferase function of anthranilate synthase and indole-3-glycerol phosphate (InGP) synthase. The protein was detected on immunoblots only as the full length 83 kda product indicating that the trifunctional gene product was expressed in yeast primarily in a fully active, undegraded form. By placing the subcloned N-TRP1 gene under the control of the inducible PHO5 promoter from yeast, the expression of all three activities was increased to more than ten fold that of wild-type yeast and the overproduced protein could be visualized by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of crude extract and Coomassie Blue staining. Using the expression system described the effect of selective deletion of regions of the coding sequence of the N-TRP1 gene on expression of the three activities was tested. Expression of either the F- or C-domains, catalyzing respectively the PRA isomerase or InGP synthase activities, did not depend on the presence of the other domain in the active polypeptide. Furthermore, normal dimer formation occurred with a protein active for InGP synthase in a deletion derivative lacking most of the PRA isomerase domain, ruling out the hypothesis that interaction between the active site regions for PRA isomerase and InGP synthase accounted for dimer formation in the trifunctional product.
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  • 191
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 223 (1990), S. 97-106 
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    Schlagwort(e): Heat shock ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Stationary phase ; cAMP ; Thermotolerance
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary We have isolated a new small heat shock gene, HSP12, from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It encodes a polypeptide of predicted Mr 12 kDa, with structural similarity to other small heat shock proteins. HSP12 gene expression is induced several hundred-fold by heat shock and on entry into stationary phase. HSP12 mRNA is undetectable during exponential growth in rich medium, but low levels are present when cells are grown in minimal medium. Analysis of HSP12 expression in mutants affected in cAMP-dependent protein phosphorylation suggests that the gene is regulated by cAMP as well as heat shock. A disruption of the HSP12 coding region results in the loss of an abundant 14.4 kDa protein present in heat shocked and stationary phase cells. It also leads to the induction of the heat shock response under conditions normally associated with low-level HSP12 expression. The HSP12 disruption has no observable effect on growth at various temperatures, nor on the ability to acquire thermotolerance.
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  • 192
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    Schlagwort(e): Heat shock response ; HSP70 ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; RAS-CAMP pathway ; Multicopy suppressor of ira1
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: abstract The MSI3 gene was isolated as a multicopy suppressor of the heat shock-sensitive phenotype of the iral mutation, which causes hyperactivation of the RAS-cAMP pathway. Overexpression of MSI3 also suppresses the heat shock-sensitive phenotype of the bcyl mutant. Determination of the DNA sequence of MSI3 revealed that MSI3 can encode a 77.4 kDa protein related to the HSP70 family. The amino acid sequence of Msi3p is about 30% identical to that of the Ssalp of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This contrasts with the finding that members of the HSP70 family generally show at least 50% amino acid identity. The consensus nucleotide sequence of the heat shock element (HSE) was found in the upstream region of MSI3. Moreover, the steady-state levels of the MSI3 mRNA and protein were increased upon heat shock. These results indicate that the MSI3 gene encodes a novel HSP70-like heat shock protein. Disruption of the MSI3 gene was associated with a temperature sensitive growth phenotype but unexpectedly, thermotolerance was enhanced in the disruptant.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 193
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Meiosis Sporulation ; Divergent promoter ; Developmental regulation
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract Promoters that control gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae only in a sporulation-specific manner have previously been isolated from a genomic yeast DNA library fused to a promoterless Escherichia coli lacZ gene. Two novel sporulation-specific genes, SPS18 and SPS19, were isolated using this technique. These genes are divergently controlled by the same promoter but with SPS18 expressed at four times the level of SPS19. Deletion analysis has shown that the promoter elements that exert sporulation control on each of the genes overlap, having a common 25 bp sequence located within the intergenic region. SPS18 encodes a 34-KDa protein of 300 amino acids that contains a putative zinc-binding domain and a region of highly basic residues that could target the protein to the nucleus. SPS19 encodes a 31-KDa protein of 295 amino acids, which has a peroxisomal targeting signal (SKL) at its C terminus; this protein belongs to the family of non-metallo short-chain alcohol dehydrogenases. A null mutation deleting the intergenic promoter prevented expression of both genes, and when homozygous in diploids, reduced the extent of sporulation four-fold; the spores that did form were viable, but failed to become resistant to ether, and were more sensitive to lytic enzymes. This phenotype reflects a defect in spore wall maturation, indicating that the product of at least one of the genes functions during the process of spore wall formation. Therefore these genes belong to the class of late sporulation-specific genes that are sequentially activated during the process of meiosis and spore formation.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 194
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    Digitale Medien
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 241 (1993), S. 657-666 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Pyruvate decarboxylase ; Transcription ; Glucose induction ; Autoregulation
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract The regulatory gene PDC2 was identified in a screen for mutations affecting pyruvate decarboxylase activity in yeast. I have cloned and sequenced this gene. The predicted protein of 925 amino acids has no homology to any sequence in the databases. However, the protein sequence is rich in asparagine and serine residues, as is often found for transcriptional regulators. The PDC2 deletion mutant exhibits a phenotype very similar to, but more severe than that of the point mutant: a strongly reduced pyruvate decarboxylase specific activity, slow, respiration-dependent growth on glucose, and accumulation of pyruvate. The activity of other glycolytic enzymes seems to be unaffected by the pdc2Δ mutation. Synthesis of pyruvate decarboxylase is regulated by PDC2 at the transcriptional level. Expression of the major structural gene for pyruvate decarboxylase, PDC1, is strongly reduced in pdc2Δ mutants. Transcription of the generally more weakly expressed PDC5 gene appears to be entirely abolished. However, glucose induction of pyruvate decarboxylase synthesis is unaffected. Thus, PDC2 is either important for a high basal level of PDC gene expression or it plays a positive role in the autoregulation that controls expression of PDC1 and PDC5.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 195
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    Digitale Medien
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 241 (1993), S. 680-684 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Nitrogen mustard resistance ; Regulation of choline permease ; Co-regulation ; Phospholipid biosynthesis ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract An 815 by region of the promoter of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene CTR/HNM1, encoding choline permease was sequenced and its regulatory function analysed by deletion studies in an in-frame promoter-lacZ construct. In addition to the TATA box, a 10 by motif (consensus 5′-CATGTGAAAT-3′) was found to be mandatory for CTR/HNM1 expression. This ‘decamer’ motif is located between nucleotides −262 and −271 and is identical in 9 of 10 by with the regulatory motif found in the S. cerevisiae INO1 and CHO1 genes. Constructs with the 10 by sequence show high constitutive expression, while elimination or alterations at three nucleotide positions, of the decamer motif in the context of an otherwise unchanged promoter leads to total loss of β-galactosidase production. Expression of the CTR/HNM1 gene in wild-type cells is regulated by the phospholipid precursors inositol and choline; no such influence is seen in cells bearing mutations in the phospholipid regulatory genes INO2, INO4, and OPI1. There is no regulation by INO2 and OPI1 in the absence of the decamer motif. However constructs not containing this sequence (promoter intact to positions −213 or −152) are still controlled by INO4. Other substrates of the choline permease, i.e. ethanolamine, nitrogen mustard and nitrogen half mustard do not regulate expression of CTR/HNM1.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 196
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Lysyl-tRNA synthetase ; PMR2 repeat ; Genome organization
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary TheKRS1 gene encodes the cytoplasmic form ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae lysyl-tRNA synthetase. TheKRS1 locus has been characterized. The lysyl-tRNA synthetase gene is unique in the yeast genome. The gene is located on the right arm of chromosome IV and disruption of the open reading frame leads to lethality. These results contrast with the situation encountered inEscherichia coli where lysyl-tRNA synthetase is coded by two distinct genes,lysS andlysU, and further address the possible biological significance of this gene duplication. The nucleotide sequence of the 3′-flanking region has been established. It encodes a long open reading frame whose nucleotide and amino acid structures are almost identical toPMR2, a cluster of tandemly repeated genes coding for P-type ion pumps. The sequence alterations relative toPMR2 are mainly located at the C-terminus of the protein.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 197
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; mRNA metabolism ; Nucleus
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Summary Mutations in the PRP20 gene of yeast show a pleiotropic phenotype, in which both mRNA metabolism and nuclear structure are affected. srm1 mutants, defective in the same gene, influence the signal transduction pathway for the pheromone response. The yeast PRP20/SRM1 protein is highly homologous to the RCC1 protein of man, hamster and frog. In mammalian cells, this protein is a negative regulator for initiation of chromosome condensation. We report the analysis of two, independently isolated, recessive temperature-sensitive prp20 mutants. They have identical G to A transitions, leading to the alteration of a highly conserved glycine residue to glutamic acid. By immunofluorescence microscopy the PRP20 protein was localized in the nucleus. Expression of the RCC1 protein can complement the temperature-sensitive phenotype of prp20 mutants, demonstrating the functional similarity of the yeast and mammalian proteins.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 198
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Duplicate genes ; Synthetic lethal mutants ; CTP synthetase ; Pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract In the pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway, CTP synthetase catalyses the conversion of uridine 5′-triphosphate (UTP) to cytidine 5′-triphosphate (CTP). In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the URA7 gene encoding this enzyme was previously shown to be nonessential for cell viability. The present paper describes the selection of synthetic lethal mutants in the CTP biosynthetic pathway that led us to clone a second gene, named URA8, which also encodes a CTP synthetase. Comparison of the predicted amino acid sequences of the products of URA7 and URA8 shows 78% identity. Deletion of the URA8 gene is viable in a haploid strain but simultaneous presence of null alleles both URA7 and URA8 is lethal. Based on the codon bias values for the two genes and the intracellular concentrations of CTP in strains deleted for one of the two genes, relative to the wild-type level, URA7 appears to be the major gene for CTP biosynthesis. Nevertheless, URA8 alone also allows yeast growth, at least under standard laboratory conditions.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 199
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    Digitale Medien
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 242 (1994), S. 517-527 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; HSP82 ; Random in vitro mutagenesis ; Temperature-sensitive mutants
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has two HSP90-related genes per haploid genome, HSP82 and HSC82. Random mutations were induced in vitro in the HSP82 gene by treatment of the plasmid with hydroxylamine. Four temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants and one simultaneously is and cold-sensitivie (cs) mutant were then selected in a yeast strain in which HSC82 had previously been disrupted. The mutants were found to have single base changes in the coding region, which caused single amino acid substitutions in the HSP82 protein. All of these mutations occurred in amino acid residues that are well conserved among HSP90-related proteins of various species from Escherichia coli to human. Various properties including cell morphology, macromolecular syntheses and thermosensitivity were examined in each mutant at both the permissive and nonpermissive temperatures. The mutations in HSP82 caused pleiotropic effects on these properties although the phenotypes exhibited at the nonpermissive temperature varied among the mutants.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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  • 200
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Schlagwort(e): Saccharomyces cerevisiae ; Cell wall ; Protein kinase C ; β-Glucanase
    Quelle: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Thema: Biologie
    Notizen: Abstract To obtain more information about the cell wall organization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we have developed a novel screening system to obtain cell wall-defective mutants, using a density gradient centrifugation method. Nine hypo-osmolarity-sensitive mutants were classified into two complementation groups, hpo1 and hpo2. Phase contrast microscopic observation showed that mutant cells bearing lesions at either locus became abnormally large. A gene that complemented the mutant phenotype of hpo2 was cloned and sequenced. This gene turned out to be identical to PKC1, which encodes the yeast homologue of mammalian protein kinase C. Complementation tests with pkc1Δ showed that hpo2 is allelic to pkc1. To study the reason for the fragility of hpo2 cells, cell wall was isolated and the glucan was analyzed. The amount of alkali, acid-insoluble glucan, which is responsible for the rigidity of the cell wall, was reduced to about 30% that of the wild-type cell and this may be the major cause of the fragility of the hpo2 mutant cell. Analysis of total wall proteins in hpo2 mutant cells on SDS-polyacrylamide gels revealed that a 33 kDa protein was overproduced two- to threefold relative to the wild-type level. This 33 kDa protein was identified as a β-glucanase, encoded by BGL2. Disruption of BGL2 in the hpo2 mutant partially rescued the growth rate defect. This suggests that the PKC1 kinase cascade regulates BGL2 expression negatively and overproduction of the β-glucanase is partially responsible for the growth defect. Since the bgl2 disruption did not rescue the hypo-osmolarty-sensitive phenotype of the hpo2 mutant, PKC1 must negatively regulate other enzymes involved in the biosynthesis and metabolism of the cell wall.
    Materialart: Digitale Medien
    Standort Signatur Erwartet Verfügbarkeit
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