Isolation of thePichia pastoris PYC1 gene encoding pyruvate carboxylase and identification of a suppressor of thepyc phenotype
✍ Scribed by Menéndez, Javier; Delgado, Julio; Gancedo, Carlos
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 283 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0749-503X
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✦ Synopsis
We have cloned and characterized a gene encoding pyruvate carboxylase from the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris. Disruption of this gene produced inability to grow in minimal medium with glucose as carbon source and ammonium as nitrogen source. Growth was possible with aspartate or glutamate as nitrogen source. The gene PpPYC1 expressed from its own promoter was able to rescue the phenotype of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants devoid of pyruvate carboxylase. In a P. pastoris strain carrying a disrupted PpPYC1 gene we have isolated spontaneous mutants able to grow in non-permissive conditions. In a mutant strain grown in glucose several enzymes sensitive to catabolite repression were derepressed. The strain also had elevated levels of glutamate dehydrogenase (NAD) both in repressed and derepressed conditions.