Stimulation of zero-trans rates of lactose and maltose uptake into yeasts by preincubation with hexose to increase the adenylate energy charge.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Pedro M R GuimarãesJohn Londesborough

Abstract

Initial rates of sugar uptake (zero-trans rates) are often measured by incubating yeast cells with radiolabeled sugars for 5 to 30 s and determining the radioactivity entering the cells. The yeast cells used are usually harvested from growth medium, washed, suspended in nutrient-free buffer, and stored on ice before they are assayed. With this method, the specific rates of zero-trans lactose uptake by Kluyveromyces lactis or recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains harvested from lactose fermentations were three- to eightfold lower than the specific rates of lactose consumption during fermentation. No significant extracellular beta-galactosidase activity was detected. The ATP content and adenylate energy charge (EC) of the yeasts were relatively low before the [(14)C]lactose uptake reactions were started. A short (1- to 7-min) preincubation of the yeasts with 10 to 30 mM glucose caused 1.5- to 5-fold increases in the specific rates of lactose uptake. These increases correlated with increases in EC (from 0.6 to 0.9) and ATP (from 4 to 8 micromol x g dry yeast(-1)). Stimulation by glucose affected the transport V(max) values, with smaller increases in K(m) values. Similar observations were made for maltose transport, using a ...Continue Reading

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