JBC, Vol. 251, Issue 11, 3221-3228, Jun, 1976

Transport of riboflavin into yeast cells

M. Perl, E. B. Kearney and T. P. Singer

Riboflavin-requiring mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are able to transport 14C-labeled riboflavin into the cell, although no significant transport is seen in commercial yeast or in the parent strain from which the mutants were derived. Transport activity is greatest in the early to mid-log phase of anaerobic growth and declines sharply in the late log phase. In aerobically grown cells activity is substantially lower at all stages of growth. In the assay devised for its measurement, transport activity shows a sharp pH optimum at pH 7.5, a strong temperature dependence (EA = 23,100 cal/mol), and saturation kinetics with respect to riboflavin (Km = 15 muM), characteristics consistent with a carrier-mediated mechanism. Monovalent inorganic cations, particularly K+ and Rb+, stimulate riboflavin uptake, while certain organic cations are inhibitory. Besides riboflavin only 7-methylriboflavin, 8-methylriboflavin, and 5-deazaflavin have been found to serve as substrates, while lumiflavin, tetraacetylriboflavin, and N10-[4'-carboxybutyl]-7,8-dimethylisoalloxazine do not, although a number of flavin analogs in which the ribityl side chain is modified are good competitive inhibitors of riboflavin uptake. Compounds resembling the ribityl side chain, such as sugars and sugar alcohols, do not inhibit. An apparent inhibition of uptake by D-glucose, D-mannose, and D-fructose, which develops in the course of assay, proved to result from stimulation of an opposing process, the release of riboflavin from the cells.
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