Abstract
3-Deoxy-d-arabinoheptulosonate 7-phosphate (DAHP) synthetase and anthranilate synthetase are key regulatory enzymes in the aromatic amino acid biosynthetic pathway. The DAHP synthetase activity of Hansenula polymorpha was subject to additive feedback inhibition by phenylalanine and tyrosine but not by tryptophan. The synthesis of DAHP synthetase in this yeast was not repressed by exogenous aromatic amino acids, singly or in combinations. The activity of anthranilate synthetase was sensitive to feedback inhibition by tryptophan, but exogenous tryptophan did not repress the synthesis of this enzyme. Nevertheless, internal repression of anthranilate synthetase probably exists, since the content of this enzyme in H. polymorpha strain 3-136 was double that in the wild-type and less sensitive 5-fluorotryptophan-resistant strains. The biochemical mechanism for the overproduction of indoles by the 5-fluorotryptophan-resistant mutants was due primarily to a partial desensitization of the anthranilate synthetase of these strains to feedback inhibition by tryptophan. These results support the concept that inhibition of enzyme activities rather than enzyme repression is more important in the regulation of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in H. polymorpha.
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