[Cause of the appearance of cyanide-resistant respiration in the yeast Candida lipolytica].

Changes in the activity of the cell respiration of the yeast Candida lipolytica and its ATP, ADP, NADH, NAD+ pools during the development of the cyanide-resistant respiration were studied. A change-over of the yeast culture to the stationary growth phase conditioned by glucose exhaustion or aerobic incubation of the resting cells in the exponential growth phase without the exogenous carbon source were shown to be accompanied by: 1) decrease of the rate of oxygen consumption; 2) appearance of the cyanide-resistant respiration; 3) appearance of the benzhydroxamic acid-sensitive respiration; 4) appearance of stimulating dinitrophenol action on the rate of oxygen consumption; 5) increase in the ATP content and decrease of the ADP content in the cells. It was concluded that the appearance of the cyanide-resistant respiration is induced by the decrease of the activity of the respiratory chain due to the increase of the ATP concentration and the decrease of the ADP concentration in yeast cells. The functioning of the cyanide-resistant pathway of the electron transfer is one of the ways of NAD+ pool regulation in yeast cells.