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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1992 December; 58(12): 3883-3889

Mechanisms of strontium uptake by laboratory and brewing strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

School of Biological Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland.

ABSTRACT

Laboratory and brewing strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were compared for metabolism-independent and -dependent Sr2+ uptake. Cell surface adsorption of Sr2+ to live cells was greater in the brewing than in the laboratory strain examined. However, uptake levels were greater in denatured (dried and ground) S. cerevisiae, and the relative affinities of Sr2+ for the two strains were reversed. Results for the brewing S. cerevisiae strain were similar whether the organism was obtained fresh from brewery waste or after culturing under the same conditions as for the laboratory strain. Reciprocal Langmuir plots of uptake data for live biomass were not linear, whereas those for denatured biomass were. The more complex Sr2+ binding mechanism inferred for live S. cerevisiae was underlined by cation displacement experiments. Sr2+ adsorption to live cells resulted in release of Mg2+, Ca2+, and H+, suggesting a combination of ionic and covalent bonding of Sr2+. In contrast, Mg2+ was the predominant exchangeable cation on denatured biomass, indicating primarily electrostatic attraction of Sr2+. Incubation of live S. cerevisiae in the presence of glucose resulted in a stimulation of Sr2+ uptake. Cell fractionation revealed that this increased Sr2+ uptake was mostly due to sequestration of Sr2+ in the vacuole, although a small increase in cytoplasmic Sr2+ was also evident. No stimulation or inhibition of active H+ efflux resulted from metabolism-dependent Sr2+ accumulation. However, a decline in cytoplasmic, and particularly vacuolar, Mg2+, in comparison with that of cells incubated with Sr2+ in the absence of glucose, was apparent. This was most marked for the laboratory S. cerevisiae strain, which contained higher Mg2+ levels than the brewing strain.

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