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. 1990 Nov;56(11):3329–3336. doi: 10.1128/aem.56.11.3329-3336.1990

Localization of inulinase and invertase in Kluyveromyces species.

R J Rouwenhorst 1, W S Ritmeester 1, W A Scheffers 1, J P Van Dijken 1
PMCID: PMC184950  PMID: 2268150

Abstract

In vivo hydrolysis of inulin and sucrose was examined in selected yeasts of the genus Kluyveromyces. Cells, grown in sucrose-limited chemostat cultures, were subjected to treatments for the removal of inulinase, the enzyme responsible for the hydrolysis of both inulin and sucrose. The effects of these treatments were studied by measurement of inulin-dependent and sucrose-dependent oxygen consumption by cell suspensions. In Kluyveromyces marxianus var. marxianus, inulinase was partially secreted into the culture fluid. Removal of culture fluid inulinase by washing had no effect on sucrose-dependent oxygen consumption by this yeast. However, this treatment drastically reduced inulin-dependent oxygen consumption. Treatment of washed cells with sulfhydryls removed part of the cell wall-retained inulinase and reduced inulin-dependent oxygen consumption by another 80%. Sucrose-dependent oxygen consumption was less affected, decreasing by 40%. Cell suspensions of K. marxianus var. drosophilarum, K. marxianus var. vanudenii, and Saccharomyces kluyveri rapidly utilized sucrose but not inulin. This is in accordance with the classification of these yeasts as inulin negative. Supernatants of cultures grown at pH 5.5 did not catalyze the hydrolysis of inulin and sucrose. This suggested that these yeasts contained a strictly cell-bound invertase, an enzyme not capable of inulin hydrolysis. However, upon washing, cells became able to utilize inulin. The inulin-dependent oxygen consumption further increased after treatment of the cells with sulfhydryls. These treatments did not affect the sucrose-dependent oxygen consumption of the cells. Apparently, these treatments removed a permeability barrier for inulin that does not exist for sucrose.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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