Inhibitory effect of glucose and adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate on the synthesis of inducible N-acetylglucosamine catabolic enzymes in yeast |
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Authors: | Balraj Singh Bipasha Guptaroy Gaiti Hasan Asis Datta |
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Affiliation: | Molecular Biology Unit, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067 India |
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Abstract: | Glucose can block the utilization of N-acetylglucosamine in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a facultative aerobe, but not in Candida albicans, an obligatory aerobe. Furthermore, glucose represses the synthesis of the enzymes of the N-acetylglucosamine catabolic pathway in S. cerevisiae, but not in C. albicans. The results suggest that catabolite repression is present in S. cerevisiae, but not in C. albicans. Cyclic AMP added to S. cerevisiae cells maintained in a glucose medium cannot bring about their release from catabolite repression. On the contrary, the synthesis of inducible enzymes of N-acetylglucosamine pathway was inhibited by cyclic AMP in both the yeasts. This seems to indicate that cyclic AMP can penetrate into the yeast cells. Furthermore, cyclic AMP inhibits protein synthesis, suggesting that protein synthesis in yeast is under cyclic AMP control. |
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Keywords: | N-Acetylglucosamine catabolism cyclic AMP, Glucose inhibition (Yeast) |
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