MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS. XII. AN OLIGOMYCIN-RESISTANT MUTANT LOCALIZED AT A NEW MITOCHONDRIAL LOCUS IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE

Léa Clavilier ¹

¹ Centre de Génétique Moléculaire du C.N.R.S. 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette (France) and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

Three antibiotic-resistance mutations were isolated from strain FL496–2B: two are independent Mendelian genes, one conferring both oligomycin and venturicidin resistance (oli^R₄₉₆) and the other conferring cycloheximide resistance (cyh^R₄₉₆). The third is a mitochondrial mutation, O^R₉, and confers a low level of oligomycin resistance to cells (in vivo) but not to the extracted mitochondrial ATPase (in vitro). This mutation is located on the mitochondrial DNA at a new locus [OLI4] linked to [OLI2] and independent from [OLI1] and [OLI3] and from the other mitochondrial loci.

All three mutations (O ^R₉, oli^R₄₉₆, cyh^R₄₉₆ ) were found without any selection, in the same prototrophic haploid strain, which contained unknown resistances to antibiotics.

Some physiological, genetical and biochemical properties of the mitochondrial mutation are described.

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