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Enzyme activities of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle and the anaplerotic pathways, as well as the cell cytology of two C. lipolytica mutants with the modified glyoxylate cycle and their parent strain were studied during the exponential growth phase on glucose or hexadecane.
Among the TCA cycle enzymes, the key enzyme citrate synthase had the highest activity in all three strains grown on both substrates. NAD-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase had the minimum activity. All strains had well-developed mitochondria.
Pyruvate carboxylation was active in the wild strain and mutant 2 grown on glucose, where this reaction is the basic anaplerotic pathway for oxal-acetate synthesis; mutant 1 had actively functioning enzymes for both anaplerotic pathways — pyruvate carboxylase, isocitrate lyase and malate synthase.
During hexadecane assimilation, the number of peroxisomes in all strains increased sharply, accompanied by a simultaneous increase in isocitrate lyase activity.
The low activities of both isocitrate lyase and pyruvate carboxylase in mutant 2 give reason to believe that this strain has an additional pathway for oxalacetic acid synthesis during the assimilation of n-alkane.
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Ermakova, I.T., Shishkanova, N.V., Melnikova, O.F. et al. Properties of Candida lipolytica mutants with the modified glyoxylate cycle and their ability to produce citric and isocitric acid. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 23, 372–377 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00257036
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