Reference - PMID:1318242 - Synthesis and degradation of polyphosphate in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe: mutations in phosphatase genes do not affect polyphosphate metabolism.
Reference summary
- PubMed ID
- PMID:1318242
- Title
- Synthesis and degradation of polyphosphate in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe: mutations in phosphatase genes do not affect polyphosphate metabolism.
- Authors
- Müller J, Westenberg B, Boller T, Wiemken A
- Citation
- FEMS Microbiol Lett 1992 Apr 15;71(2):151-6
- Publication year
- 1992
- Abstract
- The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe was found to accumulate large amounts of polyphosphate, particularly when grown on arginine as the nitrogen source. Upon transfer to a medium without phosphate, polyphosphate was degraded and served as an endogenous phosphate reserve. When phosphate was added again after a prolonged period of phosphate starvation, fission yeast cells synthesized more polyphosphate than they had contained before starvation, a phenomenon known as over-compensation. Strains carrying mutated structural genes for three different phosphatases, pho1, pho2 or pho3, degraded polyphosphate at the same rate as the wild-type strain during phosphate starvation and showed the same type of over-compensation when phosphate was added again.
