Cooper T G, Britton C, Brand L, Sumrada R
J Bacteriol. 1979 Mar;137(3):1447-8. doi: 10.1128/jb.137.3.1447-1448.1979.
Arginase-minus mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were arrested in growth and accumulated at the unbudded G-1 stage of the cell cycle when starved for nitrogen. If, however, arginine was added to the culture medium at the time of starvation, growth ceased but the cells did not collect at the unbudded G-1 stage. We suggest that arginine addition prevented the cells from collecting at the G-1 stage by starving them for histidine and lysine, thereby inhibiting synthesis of proteins needed to complete the cell cycle.
酿酒酵母的精氨酸酶缺陷型突变体在氮饥饿时生长停滞,并在细胞周期的未出芽G-1期积累。然而,如果在饥饿时向培养基中添加精氨酸,生长停止,但细胞不会在未出芽的G-1期聚集。我们认为添加精氨酸通过使细胞缺乏组氨酸和赖氨酸来阻止细胞在G-1期聚集,从而抑制完成细胞周期所需蛋白质的合成。