Mutagenesis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by sodium azide activated in barley. |
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Authors: | J Velemínsky L Silhánková V Smiovská T Gichner |
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Institution: | 1. Institute of Experimental Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 160 00 Praha 6, Flemingovo 2, Czechoslovakia;1. Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Technology, 166 28 Praha 6, Suchbátarova 5 Czechoslovakia |
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Abstract: | Concentrated dialysate of the extract prepared from barley seeds treated with sodium azide increased up to 100--200 times the frequency of forward mutations to cycloheximide resistance in the excision-deficient UV-sensitive heploid strain rad2-5 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, when applied to growing cells in complete medium at pH 4.2. Only a slight increase of mutation frequency (less than 4 times) was found in the haploid RAD+ strain treated in the same way as well as in haploid RAD+ and rad2-5 strains treated directly by sodium azide. In contrast with the barley-activated sodium azide, UV irradiation was more effective in the induction of cycloheximide resistance in the RAD+ strain than in the RAD2-5 mutant. The dialysate from azide-treated barley seeds, applied at both pH 4.2 and pH 9, also significantly increased the frequency of locus-specific suppressor mutations to isoleucine independence and -- to a lesser extent -- reversions and/or gene conversions in the trp5 locus in growing cells of the diploid strain D7. The dialysate was also mutagenic in resting cells of strains D7 and rad2-5 but with lower effectiveness. |
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