title: Endo-polygalacturonase in Saccharomyces wine yeasts: effect of carbon source on enzyme production.
abstract: Eight wine yeast strains of Saccharomyces sp. were tested for polygalacturonase (PGase) activity, after cultivation on various carbon sources. No strain showed any activity when grown on glucose, while five strains produced PGase in the presence of galactose and polygalacturonate. These data suggest that the PGase of wine strains is repressed by glucose and induced by galactose and polygalacturonate. The existence of the PGase gene in the wine strains and its similarity with that of the laboratory strains was proved by Southern hybridization and PCR amplification. The promoter region of the PGase gene in the wine strains was slightly different from that of the laboratory strains. This possibly explains the different pattern of gene expression in wine and laboratory strains. The PGase of wine strains produced di- or tri-galacturonic acid from polygalacturonic acid, different from the fungal PGase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Biochemistry, Graduate School of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan.
authors.forename: Florentina
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Radoi
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kishida
authors.forename: Haruhiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawasaki
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000378:metabolism*; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D007218:Industrial Microbiology / Q000379:methods; D011096:Polygalacturonase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012440:Saccharomyces / Q000201:enzymology*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000201:enzymology; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014920:Wine / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D002244:Carbon; D011096:Polygalacturonase