the calcium binding sites of bakers' yeast transketolase (tk) was elucidated by estimating the pka values of the functional groups that bind to calcium. these pka's were found to be 6.25 and 7.2 relating to the pka's of the two immidazol moieties of histidine residues on the enzyme. the rate of the binding of calcium to the enzyme was obtained separately as a function of ph. maxi...

Proteins from intercellular fluid extracts of chemically stressed barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) leaves were separated by native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis at alkaline or acid pH. Polyacrylamide gels contained Saccharomyces cerevisiae (bakers' yeast) or Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast) crude cell walls for assaying yeast wall lysis. In parallel, gels were overlaid with a suspensio...

Following the discovery of ergosterol by Tanret (l), Gerard (2) observed that not only ergot, but fungi in general, contain it. Gerard was the first to recognize ergosterol in yeast, although Nageli (3) had earlier obtained a yeast “cholesterol” in crude form. In traces ergosterol is now known to be widely distributed in both plant and animal kingdoms, but the fungi, and particularly the yeasts...

Methionyl-tRNA synthetase has been purified from a yeast strain carrying the MESl structural gene on a high copy number plasmid (pFL1). The purified enzyme is a monomer of M, = 85,000 in contrast to its counterpart from Escherichia coli which is a dimer made up of identical subunits (M, = 76,000; Dardel, F., Fayat, G., and Blanquet, S . (1984) J. Bucteriol. 160,1115-1122). The yeast enzyme was ...

Purified cytochrome c oxidase from bakers’ yeast can be resolved into six polypeptide bands by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. The apparent molecular weights of these components are I, 42,000; II, 34,500; III, 23,000; IV, 14,000; V, 12,500; and VI, 9,500. (Although Component V actually consists of two distinct polypeptide species, it will be regarde...

Heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) are stress-responsive proteins that activate the expression of heat shock genes and are highly conserved from bakers' yeast to humans. Under basal conditions, the human HSF1 protein is maintained as an inactive monomer through intramolecular interactions between two coiled-coil domains and interactions with heat shock proteins; upon environmental, pharmac...

Ginsenosides are the primary bioactive components of ginseng, which is a popular medicinal plant that exhibits diverse pharmacological activities. Protopanaxadiol, protopanaxatriol and oleanolic acid are three basic aglycons of ginsenosides. Producing aglycons of ginsenosides in Saccharomyces cerevisiae was realized in this work and provides an alternative route compared to traditional extracti...