Metabolism of Ethionine in Ethionine-Sensitive and Ethionine-Resistant Cells of the Enteric Yeast Candida slooffii1

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In a defined medium with added ethionine plus low methionine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, tyrosine, adenine, and additional methionine reversed inhibition of the enteric yeast Candida slooffii by ethionine. Isoleucine and 7-methylguanine restored half-maximal growth. Choline but not triethylcholine inhibited C. slooffii. 6-Mercaptopurine reversed ethionine inhibition and also synergistic inhibition by ethionine plus choline. Protection against ethionine by adenine plus aromatics was also evident with log-phase cells in the absence of methionine. Incorporation of ethionine-ethyl-1-14C by resting cells was partially inhibited by aromatic amino acids and methionine. Ethionine depressed incorporation of 3H-phenylalanine but not of 3H-adenine. Ethionine-resistant mutants were isolated which incorporated ethionine efficiently and degraded it to yet unidentified substances not including 5′-ethylthioadenosine. Ethionine-sensitive cells accumulated more S-adenosylethionine (SAE) than resistant mutants. Adenine was a good precursor of SAE. Radioactivity from ethionine-ethyl-1-14C was recovered from cell fractions of ethionine-sensitive cells with the following distribution: cold trichloroacetic acid-soluble > hot trichloroacetic acid-insoluble > lipids > deoxyribonucleic acid > ribonucleic acid. Total radioactivity recovered from ethionine-sensitive cells was twice as much as that from ethionine-resistant mutants.

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