Affiliation:
1. Department of Bacteriology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Abstract
Uptake of
3
H-thymidine by resting cells of
Pediococcus cerevisiae
was found to be energy- and temperature-dependent. The
p
H optimum was between 6.5 and 8.0, and after 2 min of incubation most of the radioactivity was found in the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fraction. Iodoacetate at a concentration of 10
−2
m
caused a 50% inhibition of uptake. Preincubation of resting cells for 10 min with folinate (10
−3
μ mole/ml) diminished the
3
H-thymidine uptake by 75%. In growing cells, the folinate-induced inhibition was still more striking. Deoxyuridine augmented the folinate effect, whereas fluorodeoxyuridine and aminopterin or amethopterin abolished it. Preincubation with folinate did not interfere with the uptake of
3
H-amethopterin, and thus the inhibitor did not compete for uptake sites within the cell. The role of these inhibitors in reversing the folinate effect is discussed. Cells preincubated with folinate showed an increased incorporation of
14
C-uracil into DNA, presumably after prior conversion to thymidylate. We concluded that the folinate effect was due to stimulation of de novo thymidylate synthesis with concomitant inhibition of the uptake of external thymidine.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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