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. 1966 Jun;99(3):513–520. doi: 10.1042/bj0990513

A specific requirement for biotin in the synthesis of ornithine carbamoyltransferase by yeast

B Dixon 1, A H Rose 1
PMCID: PMC1265035  PMID: 5964954

Abstract

1. Growth of a biotin-requiring strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in a medium containing a suboptimum concentration of biotin for growth caused a decreased synthesis of ornithine carbamoyltransferase as compared with yeast grown in a medium containing an optimum concentration of biotin. Inclusion of the biotin homologues norbiotin or homobiotin, but not bishomobiotin, in the biotin-deficient medium caused an appreciable increase in ornithine carbamoyltransferase synthesis without affecting growth or synthesis of total RNA and protein. The addition of norbiotin to biotin-deficient medium had no effect on the respiratory activity of the yeast or on the synthesis of aspartate carbamoyltransferase, acid phosphatase, β-fructofuranosidase or malate dehydrogenase. 2. Synthesis of acetylornithine deacetylase and acetylornithine acetyltransferase was slightly diminished by the imposition of biotin deficiency, but the effect was not as great as on ornithine carbamoyltransferase synthesis. Incorporation of norbiotin in the biotin-deficient medium had no marked effect on the synthesis of any other arginine-pathway enzyme except ornithine carbamoyltransferase. 3. l-Ornithine induced synthesis of ornithine carbamoyltransferase in yeast grown in biotin-deficient medium, but in yeast grown in this medium supplemented with norbiotin it repressed synthesis of the enzyme. l-Arginine had no detectable effect on ornithine carbamoyltransferase synthesis by the yeast grown in biotin-deficient medium with or without norbiotin. l-Aspartate repressed synthesis of ornithine carbamoyltransferase in biotin-deficient yeast and completely nullified the stimulatory effect of norbiotin on synthesis of the enzyme in this yeast. 4. There was no increase in ornithine carbamoyltransferase synthesis in biotin-deficient yeast incubated in phosphate buffer, pH4·5, containing glucose and biotin or norbiotin. In biotin-deficient yeast suspended in complete medium containing an optimum concentration of biotin, there was an increase in ornithine carbamoyltransferase synthesis only after the onset of growth.

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