Requirement for a second sterol biosynthetic mutation for viability of a sterol C-14 demethylation defect in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Authors

F R. Taylor
R J. Rodriguez
L W. Parks

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1983

Keywords

Kinetics, Mutation, Oxidoreductases: ge, Saccharomyces-Cerevisiae: ge, gd, Spectrum-Analysis-Mass, Sterols: bi, SUPPORT-NON-U-S-GOVT, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-NON-P-H-S, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S

First Page

64

Last Page

68

JAX Source

J-Bacteriol. 1983 Jul; 155(1):64-8.

Grant

AM05190, IF32AI15923-02

Abstract

Genetic analysis of a nystatin-resistant sterol mutant (strain JR4) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae defective in C-14 demethylation revealed the presence of a second mutation in 5,6-desaturation. It appeared from complementation tests that a defect in delta 5-desaturase enzyme activity was required for the viability of the C-14 demethylation mutant. Growth studies with a sterol auxotrophic strain indicated that the major sterol of strain JR4, 14 alpha-methyl-ergosta-8,24(28)-dien-3 beta-ol, could satisfy "bulk: membrane requirements but not the second, structurally specific, sterol function that we defined previously (Rodriguez et al., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 106:435-441, 1982). Leakiness in the sterol mutations in strain JR4 provided a small amount of ergosterol which could satisfy this second function.

Recommended Citation

Taylor FR, Rodriguez RJ, Parks LW. Requirement for a second sterol biosynthetic mutation for viability of a sterol C-14 demethylation defect in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J-Bacteriol. 1983 Jul; 155(1):64-8.