Figure 5.
The Cvt bypass phenotype is correlated with partial survival under nitrogen starvation conditions. A, Immunoblots of prAPI maturation in nitrogen starvation medium. SEY6210 (wild-type), THY119 (cvt3), WPHYD7 (aut7Δ), WPHYD2 (aut2Δ), and HAY395 (apg1Δ) strains were grown to midlog phase and shifted to SD-N medium for 0, 1, 2, 4, and 6 h. At each time point, 3 A600 units of cells were precipitated in 10% TCA, washed twice with acetone, and processed for Western blotting as described in Materials and Methods. B, Viability of yeast strains in nitrogen starvation medium. SEY6210 (wild-type), THY119 (cvt3), WPHYD7 (aut7Δ), WPHYD2 (aut2Δ), and HAY395 (apg1Δ) strains were grown to midlog phase in SMD and transferred to SD-N medium. Aliquots were removed at the indicated times and spread onto YPD plates in triplicate. The number of colonies was counted after two to three days.