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Genetics, Vol 135, 321-326, Copyright © 1993
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Responsiveness to Exogenous cAMP of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strain Conferred by Naturally Occurring Alleles of PDE1 and PDE2
H. Mitsuzawa
Present address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024.
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain P-28-24C, from which cAMP requiring mutants derived, responded to exogenously added cAMP. Upon the addition of cAMP, this strain showed phenotypes shared by mutants with elevated activity of the cAMP pathway. Genetic analysis involving serial crosses of this strain to a strain with another genetic background revealed that the responsiveness to cAMP results from naturally occurring loss-of-function alleles of PDE1 and PDE2, which encode low and high affinity cAMP phosphodiesterases, respectively. In addition, P-28-24C was found to carry a mutation conferring slow growth that lies in CYR1, which encodes adenylate cyclase, and the slow growth phenotype caused by the cyr1 mutation was suppressed by the pde2 mutation. Therefore P-28-24C is fortuitously a pde1 pde2 cyr1 triple mutant. Responsiveness to cAMP conferred by pde mutations suggests that S. cerevisiae cells are permeable to cAMP to some extent and that the apparent absence of effect of exogenously added cAMP on wild-type cells is due to immediate degradation by cAMP phosphodiesterases.
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