Changes in the structure and enzyme activity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in response to changes in the environment.
Changes in the structure and enzyme activity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in response to changes in the environment.
复制标题
酿酒酵母的结构和酶活性因环境变化而发生变化。
作者:
E. Polakis;W. Bartley;G. A. Meek
The first report, as a result of work with the electron microscope, of cytoplasmic inclusions in cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae having the characteristic ultrastructural features of plant and animal mitochondria (Palade, 1953) was published by Agar & Douglas (1957), although the characteristic cristae are barely discernible in their published micrographs. Later electron micrographs of cells fixed in potassium permanganate published by Vitols, North & Linnane (1961) show characteristic mitochondria about 0 5 , in length in aerobically grown S. cerevisiae cells. Linnane, Vitols & Nowland (1962) have shown that, in the yeast Torulopsis utilis, anaerobically grown cells do not contain characteristic mitochondria or cytochromes; the cytoplasm of these cells, however, contains a reticular system of membranes, vacuoles containing electron-dense granules, and concentric membrane systems resembling myelin forms. The aerobically grown cells, however, show characteristic mitochondria, no reticular membrane system, and vacuoles with far fewer and lesselectron-dense granules. Heyman-Blanchet, Zajdela & Chaix (1959) claim to have isolated mitochondria-like structures from anaerobically grown yeast cells, but we have failed so far to detect any mitochondria in anaerobically grown S. cerevisiae cells by electron microscopy. Slonimski (1953, 1955) and Tustanoff & Bartley (1962) have shown that S. cerevisiae cells, when grown anaerobically with glucose as substrate, lose their capacity for oxidation. When this anaerobic yeast is incubated in the presence of oxygen and a low concentration of glucose, respiration develops. Under the conditions of Slonimski (1953) respiration develops gradually over several hours; under the conditions of Tustanoff & Bartley (1962) respiration becomes appreciable and is maximal at about 21 hr. In our experience such anaerobically grown yeast does not develop the ability to oxidize acetate, but yeast grown aerobically on low glucose concentrations eventually becomes able to oxidize acetate. The present paper shows that the growth conditions