A gap1 can1 mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with a single lysine transport system remaining was used to study detailed kinetics of this transport. Its half-saturation constant was 78 mumol per litre, its maximum rate of transport was 0.29 mumol L-lysine per g dry matter per minute, both parameters being lower by more than an order of magnitude in comparison with the GAP system. The pH optimum lay at very acid values of about 3, the temperature dependence without any transition point showed an activation energy of 48 kJ/mol. The transport was inhibited by common metabolic inhibitors (3'-chlorophenylhydrazonomalononitrile, antimycin, 2-deoxy-D-glucose, sodium arsenate) as well as by a membrane-active one (uranyl nitrate). The specificity of the system was extremely high, none of the natural amino acids acting as competitor to L-lysine. The maximum accumulation ratio attained (at about 5 mg dry matter per mL) was 100: 1-120: 1, in agreement with the measured protonmotive force under the assumption of 1 H+ ion being transported with 1 lysine molecule. The ratio decreased with increasing external concentration of lysine to as little as 4: 1 at 1 mmol lysine per litre. It also decreased with increasing suspension density and it was at extremely low suspension densities (0.2 mg dry matter per mL) that ratios of as much as 500: 1 were reached. Application of group-specific inhibitors showed that the active site of the carrier contains an essential histidine residue.

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