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Derepression of lysine biosynthetic enzymes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was investigated in lys9 auxotrophs which lack saccharopine reductase activity. Five enzymes (homocitrate synthase, homoisocitrate dehydrogenase, α-aminoadipate aminotransferase, α-aminoadipate reductase and saccharopine dehydrogenase) were constitutively derepressed in all lys9 mutants with up to eight-fold higher enzyme levels than in isogenic wild-type cells. Levels of these enzymes in lys2, lys14, and lys15 S mutants were the same or lower than those in wild-type cells. The regulatory property of lys9 mutants exhibited recessiveness to the wild-type gene in heterozygous diploids. Unlike the mating type effect, homozygous diploids resulting from crosses between lys9 auxotrophs exhibited even higher levels of derepressed enzymes than the haploid mutants. Addition of a higher concentration of lysine to the growth medium resulted in reduction of enzyme levels although they were still derepressed. These results suggest that lys9 mutants represent a lesion for the saccharopine reductase and may represent a repressor mutation which in the wild-type cells simultaneously represses unlinked structural genes that encode for five of the lysine biosynthetic enzymes.
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Winston, M.K., Bhattacharjee, J.K. Biosynthetic and regulatory role of lys9 mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae . Curr Genet 11, 393–398 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00378182
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