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Volume 135, Issue 9

The Mechanism of Intracellular Acidification Induced by Glucose in Free

Abstract

Addition of glucose or fructose to cells of adapted to grow in the absence-of glucose induced an acidification of the intracellular medium. This acidification appeared to be due to the phosphorylation of the sugar since: (i) glucose analogues which are not efficiently phosphorylated did not induce internal acidification; (ii) glucose addition did not cause internal acidification in a mutant deficient in all the three sugar-phosphorylating enzymes; (iii) fructose did not affect the intracellular pH in a double mutant having only glucokinase activity; (iv) glucose was as effective as fructose in inducing the internal pH drop in a mutant deficient in phosphoglucose isomerase activity; and (v) in strains deficient in two of the three sugar-phosphorylating activities, there was a good correlation between the specific glucose-or fructose-phosphorylating activity of cell extracts and the sugar-induced internal acidification. In addition, in whole cells any of the three yeast sugar kinases were capable of mediating the internal acidification described. Glucose-induced internal acidification was observed even when yeast cells were suspended in growth medium and in cells suspended in buffer containing K, which supports the possible signalling function of the glucose-induced internal acidification. Evaluation of internal pH by following fluorescence changes of fluorescein-loaded cells indicated that the change in intracellular pH occurred immediately after addition of sugar. The apparent for glucose in this process was 2 m. Changes in both the internal and external pH were determined and it was found that the internal acidification induced by glucose was followed by a partial alkalinization coincident with the initiation of H efflux. This reversal of acidification could be due to the activity of the H-ATPase, since it was inhibited by diethylstilboestrol. Coincidence between internal alkalinization and the H efflux was also observed after addition of ethanol.

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The Mechanism of Intracellular Acidification Induced by Glucose in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 135, 2413 (1989); https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-135-9-2413
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