Toxic and mutagenic effects of carcinogens on the mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. |
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Authors: | Valgardur Egilsson Ivor H. Evans David Wilkie |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Botany and Microbiology, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London, England |
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Abstract: | Summary Nineteen haploid yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) strains were used to assess the relative growth inhibitory potencies on fermentable vs. non-fermentable media of a collection of carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic chemicals. The majority of carcinogens were distinctly more potent on the non-fermentable (glycerol) medium, where mitochondrial function is required for growth, than on the fermentable medium, where it is not. The anti-mitochondrial selectivity indicated by these growth tests was much slighter for the non-carcinogens. Similarly most carcinogens induced the cytoplasmic petite mutation whereas the non-carcinogens did not.Five carcinogens which were tested impaired the development of cytochromes aa3 and b in glucose cultures.Six carcinogens, when tested, inhibited growth on three fermentable sugars, the utilisation of which requires mitochondrial function.Out of five carcinogens which were examined, four suppressed the surface-dependent phenomenon of flocculence in a flocculating strain of yeast, at concentrations primarily affecting the mitochondrial system; the fifth had a similar but less pronounced effect. |
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