S-adenosylmethionine and morphogenesis inMucor racemosus |
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Authors: | J. Roberto Garcia Paul S. Sypherd |
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Affiliation: | (1) Biology Department, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA;(2) Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, 92717 Irvine, California, USA |
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Abstract: | The intracellular concentration of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and the specific activity of S-adenosylmethionine synthetase (ATP:l-methionine S-adenosyltransferase, EC 2.5.1.6) were examined in wild-typeMucor racemosus, as well as a morphological mutant termedcoy, under conditions designed to prevent the morphogenesis of yeasts to hyphae. When the mutant was grown in a defined medium supplemented with methionine and induced to shift by exposure to air, there was an increase in intracellular SAM analogous to that previously reported with the wild type. However, when thecoy mutant was grown in the absence of methionine, the intracellular concentration decreased dramatically and the mutant failed to undergo the yeast to hypha transition. An inhibitor of SAM synthetase activity, cycloserine, was used to lower the intracellular concentration of SAM in the wild-type organisms. Under these conditions, wild-typeM. racemosus failed to undergo the transition from yeasts to hyphae when exposed to air. |
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