Nutritional regulation of yeast delta-9 fatty acid desaturase activity.
AUTOR(ES)
Bossie, M A
RESUMO
The addition of unsaturated fatty acids to cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae significantly altered the microsomal lipid composition. Supplementation with either of the naturally occurring palmitoleic (16:1) or oleic (18:1) acids caused increased levels in membrane phospholipids and reduced levels of the complementary acid. Growth in the presence of equimolar quantities of 16:1 and 18:1 acids, however, produced a fatty acid composition similar to that found in unsupplemented cell membranes. Linoleic acid (18:2) was not found in S. cerevisiae grown under normal conditions. It was preferentially internalized and incorporated into microsomes, however, at levels exceeding 50% of the total fatty acid species. This resulted in an almost total loss of 16:1 and a reduction of 18:1 to 25% of its normal level. The delta-9 fatty acid desaturase, a microsomal enzyme that forms 16:1 and 18:1 from saturated acyl coenzyme A precursors, was affected by the presence of exogenous fatty acids. Enzyme activity toward the 16:0 coenzyme A substrate was elevated in microsomes from saturated-fatty-acid-supplemented cultures and sharply repressed following the addition of unsaturated fatty acids, including 18:2. Northern (RNA blot) and slot-blot analyses of mRNA encoded by the OLE1 gene, which appears to be the structural gene for the delta-9 desaturase, indicated that it was sharply reduced in unsaturated-fatty-acid-fed cells. These data suggest that a significant part of the regulation involves modulation of available transcripts.
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