Ultrastructure and cell wall composition in cell division cycle mutants ofSchizosaccharomyces pombe deficient in septum formation |
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Authors: | Pedro Mateos Angel Domínguez |
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Affiliation: | (1) Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, E-37071 Salamanca, Spain |
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Abstract: | A number of temperature-sensitive cdc- mutants ofSchizosaccharomyces pombe that are affected in septum formation were analyzed with respect to their ultrastructure and the composition of their cell wall polymers. One mutant strain, cdc 16–116, has a cell wall composition similar to the wild type (strain 972 h-). However two other mutants, cdc 4 and cdc 7, show a higher galactomannan content and a lower -glucan content. In all the mutants tested, total glucose incorporation, protein, RNA and DNA synthesis increased similarly to wild type over 3 1/2 h. After 2–3 h of incubation at the non permissive temperature-35°C-, cell numbers remained constant although, increases in optical densities at 600 nm were observed. According to scanning electron microscopy, the mutants had aberrant shapes after 5h of incubation at 35°C. Transmission electron microscopy showed that cdc 3 is unable to complete septum formation. cdc 4 showed the most varied morphological shapes and aberrant depositions of cell wall material. cdc 8 exhibited a deranged plasma membrane and cell wall regions near of cell poles; an abnormal septum and several nuclei. cdc 7 showed elongated cells with several nuclei and with an apparently normal cell wall completely lacking in septum and septal material. cdc 16 showed more than one septum per cell. |
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Keywords: | cell division cycle Schizosaccharomyces pombe cell wall composition septum formation |
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