Metabolism, Macromolecular Synthesis, and Nuclear Behavior of Cryptococcus albidus at 37 C

AUTOR(ES)

Tang, S. L.

RESUMO

The temperature-sensitive events which prevent Cryptococcus albidus from growing at 37 C were investigated. Cultures incubated at 37 C immediately after inoculation did not increase in optical density nor in cell numbers, and by 24 h 90% of cells in such cultures were deformed and dead. When cultures in log phase were shifted from 23 to 37 C the optical density increased but the cell numbers did not. Morphological observations revealed that the increase in turbidity at 37 C represented enlargement and distortion of cells without appreciable replication. Uptake and incorporation of 14C-leucine were similar at 23 and 37 C. There was no difference in 14CO2 evolution from cells at either temperature. Uptake and incorporation of adenine-8-14C into RNA was slightly lower in cells incubated at 37 C. There was, however, a 60% reduction in incorporation of adenine-8-14C into DNA after 3 hr at 37 C. Nuclear staining revealed that nuclear migration did not occur in cells incubated at 37 C. Thus the data indicate that both adenine incorporation into DNA and nuclear migration prior to nuclear division by C. albidus are temperature sensitive.

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