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. 1982 Nov;152(2):874–879. doi: 10.1128/jb.152.2.874-879.1982

Growth inhibition by alpha-aminoadipate and reversal of the effect by specific amino acid supplements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

M K Winston, J K Bhattacharjee
PMCID: PMC221542  PMID: 6752121

Abstract

The growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae wild-type strain X2180 in minimal medium was inhibited by the addition of higher-than-supplementary levels of alpha-aminoadipate. This inhibitory effect was reversed by the addition of arginine, asparagine, aspartate, glutamine, homoserine, methionine, or serine as single amino acid supplements. Mutants belonging to the lys2 and lys14 loci were able to grow in lysine-supplemented alpha-aminoadipate medium, although not as well as when selected amino acids were added. Growth in alpha-aminoadipate medium by all strains was accompanied by an accumulation of alpha-ketoadipate. Glutamate:keto-adipate transaminase levels were derepressed two- to fivefold in lys2 mutants using alpha-aminoadipate as a nitrogen source. Wild-type strain X2180 growing in amino acid-supplemented AA medium exhibited higher levels of alpha-aminoadipate reductase. Mutants unable to use alpha-aminoadipate without amino acid supplementation were obtained by treatment of lys2 strain MW5-64 and were shown to have glutamate: ketoadipate transaminase activity and to lack alpha-aminoadipate reductase activity. Altered cell morphologies, including increased size, multiple buds, pseudohyphae, and germ tubes, evidenced by cells grown in alpha-aminoadipate medium suggest that higher-than-supplementary levels of alpha-aminoadipate result in an impairment of cell division.

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