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. 1990 Jul;172(7):3584–3589. doi: 10.1128/jb.172.7.3584-3589.1990

Genetic assessment of stationary phase for cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

M A Drebot 1, C A Barnes 1, R A Singer 1, G C Johnston 1
PMCID: PMC213331  PMID: 2163381

Abstract

Starvation of cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae causes cessation of proliferation and acquisition of characteristic physiological properties. The stationary-phase state that results represents a unique developmental state, as shown by a novel conditional phenotype (M. A. Drebot, G. C. Johnston, and R. A. Singer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84:7948-7952, 1987): mutant cells cannot proliferate at the restrictive temperature when stimulated to reenter the mitotic cell cycle from stationary phase but are unaffected and continue proliferation indefinitely if transferred to the restrictive temperature during exponential growth. We have exploited this reentry mutant phenotype to demonstrate that the same stationary-phase state is generated by nitrogen, sulfur, or carbon starvation and by the cdc25-1 mutation, which conditionally impairs the cyclic AMP-mediated signal transduction pathway. We also show that heat shock, a treatment that elicits physiological perturbations associated with stationary phase, does not cause cells to enter stationary phase. The physiological properties associated with stationary phase therefore do not result from residence in stationary phase but from the stress conditions that bring about stationary phase.

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