Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
YEAST, cilt.8, sa.12, ss.1053-1064, 1992 (SCI-Expanded)
At pH 5-6 ATP-depleted washed cell preparations of strain NC233-10b[pII4-9], in which the cytosine permease was overexpressed, absorbed cytosine. hypoxanthine or fluorocytosine stoichiometrically with, respectively, about 1, 1.4 and 5 proton equivalents. The cellular pH fell proportionately. The membrane depolarization caused by each compound was assayed in the presence of glucose with a voltage-sensitive dye and increased in the same order. Fluorocytosine significantly lowered the growth yield that a 'petite' strain of the yeast formed at limiting glucose concentrations. At pH 5-6 with extracellular [K+] below 1 mm, each of the three substrates was accumulated about 200-fold from a dilute solution at the expense of the proton gradient. This concentration ratio corresponds to a solute gradient (DELTAmu(s)) of 13 kJ mol-1. Raising [K+]o systematically lowered the substrate accumulation ratio and DELTAmu(H). The mean ratio DELTAmu(s)/DELTAmu(H) was 0.82 for all three substrates. It was concluded that whereas the behaviour of cytosine approximated to that expected for a symport of unit proton stoichiometry, the absorption of protons with fluorocytosine and, to a lesser extent, hypoxanthine, was only partly conserved as useful work. A possible mechanism of this novel phenomenon is outlined.