CHANGES INDUCED IN THE PERMEABILITY BARRIER OF THE YEAST PLASMA-MEMBRANE BY CUPRIC ION
CHANGES INDUCED IN THE PERMEABILITY BARRIER OF THE YEAST PLASMA-MEMBRANE BY CUPRIC ION
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DOI:
10.1128/jb.170.6.2676-2682.1988
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发表时间:
1988-06-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
ANRAKU, Y
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作者:
OHSUMI, Y;KITAMOTO, K;ANRAKU, Y
A specific effect of Cu2+ eliciting selective changes in the permeability of intact Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells is described. When 100 .mu.M CuCl2 was added to a cell suspension in a buffer of low ionic strength, the permeability barrier of the plasma membranes of the cells was lost within 2 min at 25.degree. C. The release of amino acids was partial, and the composition of amino acids released was different from that of those retained in the cells. Mostly glutamate was released, but arginine was mainly retained in the cells. Cellular K+ was released rapidly after CuCl2 addition, but 30% of the total K+ was retained in the cells. These and other observations suggested that Cu2+ caused selected lesions of the permeability barrier of the plasma memberane but did not affect the permeability of the vasucolar membrane. These selective changes were not induced by the other divalent cations tested. A novel and simple method for differential extraction of vacuolar and cytosolic amino acid pools by Cu2+ treatment was established. When Ca2+ was added to Cu2+-treated cells, a large amount of Ca2+ was sequestered into vacuoles, with formation of an inclusion of a Ca2+-polyphosphate complex in the vaculoes, Cu2+-treated cells also showed enhanced uptake of basic amino acids and S-adenosylmethionine. The transport of these substrates showed saturable kinetics with low affinities, reflecting the vacuolar transport process in situ. With Cu2+ treatment, selective leakage of K+ from the cytosolic compartment appears to creat a large concentration gradient of K+ across the vacuolar membrane and generates an inside-negative membrane potential, which may provide a driving force of uptake of positively charged substances into vacuoles. Cu2+ treatment provides a useful in situ method for investigating the mechanisms of differenetial solute pool formation and specific transport phenomena across the vacuolar membrane.