A GENETIC APPROACH TO THE BIOGENESIS OF PEROXISOMES IN THE YEAST SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE
A GENETIC APPROACH TO THE BIOGENESIS OF PEROXISOMES IN THE YEAST SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE
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DOI:
10.1002/cbf.290100306
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发表时间:
1992-09-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
KUNAU, WH
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作者:
ERDMANN, R;KUNAU, WH
The budding yeast Succhurom, vces cerevisiue offers the advantages of combined genetic, molecular genetic and biochemical approaches to study cell biological processes. S. cerevisiae mutants have been powerful tools to dissect the biogenesis of subcellular structures, such as mitochondria,'. 2 endoplasmic reti~ ulum,~.~ g~ lgi,~ vacuoles, 6 and most recently peroxi~ omes.~-'~The presence of peroxisomes in S. cerevisiue was first demonstrated by Avers and Federman,''but in contrast to other yeasts and filamentous fungi,'2.''peroxisomes of S. cerevisiue have not been characterized in great detail. This lack of information is explained by the observation that under the growth conditions originally chosen, peroxisomes in S. cerevisiue are very rare and~ rna1l. l~ In several yeasts, proliferation of this organelle can be induced by growth on distinct carbon and nitrogen sources1'but attempts to induce the proliferation of peroxisomes in S. cerevisiue failed for a long time. It was not until Veenhuis et d.'" and Kunau et al.'demonstrated the inducibi-lity of peroxisomal P-oxidation as well as peroxisome proliferation in yeasts by growth on oleic acid as the single carbon source that remarkable amounts of peroxisomes were also found in S. ccw~ ci. siur~.'4.1 This finding opened the way for the development of a genetic screen to isolate peroxisoma1 mutants of S.~ erevisiue.~ In this report we review the first attempts to characterize peroxisome biogenesis in S. cerevisiue by a combined genetic and biochemical approach. We describe the different types of peroxisomal mutants and our current knowledge of the primary