Invivo biosynthesis of vacuolar proteinases in proteinase mutants of Saccharomycescerevisiae

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The molecular forms of proteinase A, proteinase B and Car☐ypeptidase Y, enzymes of the lysosome like yeast vacuole, were studied in mutants (Wolf,D.H. and Fink,G.R. (1975) J. Bacteriol. 123, 1150–1156;Wolf,D.H. and Ehmann,C. (1978) FEBS Lett. 92, 121–124;Mechler,B. and Wolf,D.H. (1981) Eur. J. Biochem. 121, 47–52) defective in genes, which appear to be structural genes of the respective enzymes. According to the immunochemical reactivity of proteinase protein, mutants could be divided into three classes: 1) Mutants harboring no immunoreactive proteinase material. 2) Mutants synthesizing proteinase precursor molecules of similar size as wild type, which are transferred into mature proteins, which are, however, completely inactive. 3) Mutants synthesizing proteinase precursor-like proteins, which are not processed into the mature proteins. As measured in the car☐y-peptidase Y mutant strain the mutant precursor car☐ypeptidase Y is rapidly degraded. A pleiotropic mutation (pep4-3) resulting in low activities of five vacuolar enzymes had been shown to accumulate pro-car☐ypeptidase Y like immunoreactive material (Hemmings,B.A., Zubenko,G.S., Hasilik,A., and Jones,E.W. (1981) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 78, 435–439). We found that this mutant is also defective in processing the proteinase B precursor, whereas no cross-reactive proteinase A molecule could be detected under the conditions employed.

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