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. 1991 Oct;173(20):6432–6437. doi: 10.1128/jb.173.20.6432-6437.1991

Coordinate regulation of phosphatidylserine decarboxylase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

E Lamping 1, S D Kohlwein 1, S A Henry 1, F Paltauf 1
PMCID: PMC208977  PMID: 1917869

Abstract

Regulation of the activity of the mitochondrial enzyme phosphatidylserine decarboxylase (PSD) was measured in vitro by using membrane preparations from wild-type and mutant strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PSD specific activity was not affected by carbon source, and on all carbon sources, the highest specific activity was observed in cells entering the stationary phase of growth. However, PSD activity was found to be regulated in response to soluble precursors of phospholipid biosynthesis. PSD specific activity was reduced to about 63% of the level observed in unsupplemented wild-type cells when the cells were grown in the presence of 75 microM inositol. The presence of 1 mM choline alone had no repressing effect, but the presence of 1 mM choline and 75 microM inositol together led to further repression to a level of about 28% of the derepressed activity. Regulatory mutations known to affect regulation or expression of genes encoding phospholipid-synthesizing enzymes also affected PSD specific activity. opi1 mutants, which are constitutive for a number of phospholipid-biosynthetic enzymes, were found to have high, constitutive levels of PSD. Likewise, in ino2 or ino4 regulatory mutants, PSD activity was found to be at the fully repressed level regardless of growth condition. Regulation of PSD activity was also affected in several structural-gene mutants under conditions of impaired phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis. Together, these data strongly suggest that PSD expression is controlled by the mechanism of general control of phospholipid biosynthesis that regulates many enzymes of phospholipid biosynthesis.

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