Quantitative aspects of the use of bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase as a reporter system in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. |
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Authors: | H Alipour P Eriksson J Norbeck A Blomberg |
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Institution: | Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, G?teborg University, Medicinaregaten 9c, G?teborg, 405 30, Sweden. |
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Abstract: | The quantitative aspects of the use of the reporter system chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) has been evaluated in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It was found that the CAT activity measured with a radiosotopic fluor diffusion assay was strongly dependent on the amount of yeast extract applied, both when CAT was expressed endogenously and when a purified Escherichia coli enzyme was investigated. Desalting the yeast extract by gel filtration partly eliminated the problem, indicating that some low-molecular-weight compound was involved in the phenomenon. However, the extract still exhibited stability problems on ice. An immunological CAT assay was tested and found to yield satisfactory quantitative result. |
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