Urban-Grimal D, Labbe-Bois R. Genetic and biochemical characterization of mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae blocked in six different steps of heme biosynthesis.
MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1981;
183:85-92. [PMID:
7035824 DOI:
10.1007/bf00270144]
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Abstract
Heme-deficient mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been isolated from two isogenic strains with the use of an enrichment method based on photodynamic properties of Zn-protoporphyrin. They defined seven non-overlapping complementation groups. A mutant representative of each group was further analysed. Genetic analysis showed that each mutant carried a single nuclear recessive mutations. Biochemical studies showed that the observed accumulation and/or excretion of the different heme synthesis precursors by the mutant cells correlated well with the enzymatic deficiencies measured in acellular extracts. Six of the seven mutants were blocked in a different enzyme activity: 5-aminolevulinate synthase, porphobilinogen synthase, uroporphyrinogen I synthase, uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase, coproporphyrinogen III oxidase and ferrochelatase. The other mutant had the same phenotype as the mutant deficient in ferrochelatase activity. However, it possessed a normal ferrochelatase activity when measured in vitro, so this mutant was assumed to be deficient in protoporphyrinogen oxidase activity or in the transport and/or reduction of iron. The absence of PBG synthesis led to a total lack of uroporphyrinogen I synthase activity. The absence of heme, the end product, led to an important increase of coproporphyrinogen III oxidase activity, while the activity of 5-aminolevulinate synthase, the first enzyme of the pathway, was not changed. These results are discussed in terms of possible modes of regulation of heme synthesis pathway in yeast.
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