Journal
FEMS YEAST RESEARCH
Volume 7, Issue 8, Pages 1237-1247Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2007.00287.x
Keywords
petite mutation; mtDNA; Saccharomyces/Kluyveromyces complex; ethidium bromide; mitochondria
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Petite-positivity - the ability to tolerate the loss of mtDNA - was examined after the treatment with ethidium bromide (EB) in over hundred isolates from the Saccharomyces/Kluyveromyces complex. The identity of petite mutants was confirmed by the loss of specific mtDNA DAPI staining patterns. Besides unequivocal petite-positive and petite-negative phenotypes, a few species exhibited temperature sensitive petite positive phenotype and petiteness of a few other species could be observed only at the elevated EB concentrations. Several yeast species displayed a mixed 'moot' phenotype, where a major part of the population did not tolerate the loss of mtDNA but several cells did. The genera from postwhole-genome duplication lineages (Saccharomyces, Kazachstania, Naumovia, Nakaseomyces) were invariably petite-positive. However, petite-positive traits could also be observed among the prewhole-genome duplication species.
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