PubMed · 7672168
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A J Carrillo, D D Pridham, C L Cook, I H Silverman, P Risch. 1995. Gedankenexperiments?. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0015-0282(16)57873-x
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Fluorescence ratio imaging microscopy using pH-sensitive fluorescent dyes makes it possible to evaluate statistical distribution of intracellular pH in a population of the yeast S. cerevisiae examined in a thin layer of suspension in a Petri dish. The distribution appears to fit a Gaussian curve with a half-width around the 0.4 pH unit. The curve became slightly narrower after resuspension in a strong buffer; the mean values shifted with the pH of the buffer. The shape of the distribution curves of both resting and growing cells in various phases of growth does not change significantly. Likewise, addition of 1% of glucose, 50 microM suloctidil or 100 microM diethylstilbestrol brings about no alteration. The only value which clearly changes is the average cytoplasmic pH.
In S. cerevisiae, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecules, in spite of their high copy number, segregate as if there were a small number of heritable units. The rapid segregation of mitochondrial genomes can be analyzed using mtDNA deletion variants. These small, amplified genomes segregate preferentially from mixed zygotes relative to wild-type mtDNA. This segregation advantage is abolished by mutations in a gene, MGT1, that encodes a recombination junction-resolving enzyme. We show here that resolvase deficiency causes a larger proportion of molecules to be linked together by recombination junctions, resulting in the aggregation of mtDNA into a small number of cytological structures. This change in mtDNA structure can account for the increased mitotic loss of mtDNA and the altered pattern of mtDNA segregation from zygotes. We propose that the level of unresolved recombination junctions influences the number of heritable units of mtDNA.