We have introduced into Hansenula polymorpha an extra copy of its alcohol oxidase gene. This gene which is under the control of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae phosphoglycerate kinase promoter is integrated in a chromosome different from the one containing the endogenous gene. Cells with the extra alcohol oxidase gene, grown on glucose or ethanol as the sole carbon source, express enzymatically active alcohol oxidase. However, other enzymes characteristic for methylotrophic growth conditions are absent or present at low levels. Most of the alcohol oxidase occurs in the octameric state and immuno- and cytochemical evidence shows that it is located in a single enlarged peroxisome per cell. Such peroxisomes show crystalloid inclusions which are lacking in the peroxisomes present in glucose grown control cells. Our results suggest that import into peroxisomes of H. polymorpha, assembly and activation of alcohol oxidase is not conditionally dependent on adaptation to methylotrophic growth conditions and that proliferation of peroxisomes is a well-programmed process that is not triggered solely by overproduction of a peroxisomal protein.
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November 01 1988
Alcohol oxidase expressed under nonmethylotrophic conditions is imported, assembled, and enzymatically active in peroxisomes of Hansenula polymorpha.
B Distel,
B Distel
Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Amsterdam, AMC, The Netherlands.
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I Van der Leÿ,
I Van der Leÿ
Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Amsterdam, AMC, The Netherlands.
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M Veenhuis,
M Veenhuis
Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Amsterdam, AMC, The Netherlands.
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H F Tabak
H F Tabak
Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Amsterdam, AMC, The Netherlands.
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B Distel
Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Amsterdam, AMC, The Netherlands.
I Van der Leÿ
Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Amsterdam, AMC, The Netherlands.
M Veenhuis
Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Amsterdam, AMC, The Netherlands.
H F Tabak
Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Amsterdam, AMC, The Netherlands.
Online ISSN: 1540-8140
Print ISSN: 0021-9525
J Cell Biol (1988) 107 (5): 1669–1675.
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B Distel, I Van der Leÿ, M Veenhuis, H F Tabak; Alcohol oxidase expressed under nonmethylotrophic conditions is imported, assembled, and enzymatically active in peroxisomes of Hansenula polymorpha.. J Cell Biol 1 November 1988; 107 (5): 1669–1675. doi: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.107.5.1669
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