| Autor: |
Scherrer, Rene, Louden, Louise, Gerhardt, Philipp |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of Bacteriology; May 1974, Vol. 118 Issue: 2 p534-540, 7p |
| Abstrakt: |
The limiting sizes of molecules that can permeate the intact cell wall and protoplast membrane of Saccharomyces cerevisiaewere determined from the inflection points in a triphasic pattern of passive equilibrium uptake values obtained with a series of inert probing molecules varying in molecular size. In the phase identified with the yeast protoplast, the uptake-exclusion threshold corresponded to a monodisperse ethylene glycol of molecular weight = 110 and Einstein-Stokes hydrodynamic radius (rES) = 0.42 nm. In the cell wall phase, the threshold corresponded to a polydisperse polyethylene glycol of number-average molecular weight (¯Mn) = 620 and average radius (rES) = 0.81 nm. The third phase corresponded to complete exclusion of larger molecules. The assessment of cell wall porosity was confirmed by use of a second method involving analytical gel chromatographic analyses of the molecular weight distribution for a single polydisperse polyglycol before and after uptake by the cells, which indicated a quasi-monodisperse threshold for the cell wall of Mn= 760 and rES= 0.89 nm. The results were reconciled with two situations in which much larger protein molecules previously have been reported able to penetrate the yeast cell wall. |
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