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. 1982 Sep;2(9):1088–1095. doi: 10.1128/mcb.2.9.1088

Isolation and characterization of mutants that produce the allantoin-degrading enzymes constitutively in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

G Chisholm, T G Cooper
PMCID: PMC369901  PMID: 6757722

Abstract

Degradation of allantoin, allantoate, or urea by Saccharomyces cerevisiae requires the participation of four enzymes and four transport systems. Production of the four enzymes and one of the active transport systems is inducible; allophanate, the last intermediate of the pathway, functions as the inducer. The involvement of allophanate in the expression of five distinct genes suggested that they might be regulated by a common element. This suggestion is now supported by the isolation of a new class of mutants (dal80). Strains possessing lesions in the DAL80 locus produce the five inducible activities at high, constitutive levels. Comparable constitutive levels of activity were also observed in doubly mutant strains (durl dal80) which are unable to synthesize allophanate. This, with the observation that arginase activity remained at its uninduced, basal level in strains mutated at the DAL80 locus, eliminates internal induction as the basis for constitutive enzyme synthesis. Mutations in dal80 are recessive to wild-type alleles. The DAL80 locus has been located and is not linked to any of the structural genes of the allantoin pathway. Synthesis of the five enzymes produced constitutively in dal80-1-containing mutants remains normally sensitive to nitrogen repression even though the dal80-1 mutation is present. From these observations we conclude that production of the allantoin-degrading enzymes is regulated by the DAL80 gene product and that induction and repression of enzyme synthesis can be cleanly separated mutationally.

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