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Dependency of size of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells on growth rate.

ABSTRACT

The mean size and percentage of budded cells of a wild-type haploid strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown in batch culture over a wide range of doubling times (tau) have been measured using microscopic measurements and a particle size analyzer. Mean size increased over a 2.5-fold range with increasing growth rate (from tau = 450 min to tau = 75 min). Mean size is principally a function of growth rate and not of a particular carbon source. The duration of the budded phase increased at slow growth rates according to the empirical equation, budded phase = 0.5 tau + 27 (all in minutes). Using a recent model of the cell cycle in which division is thought to be asymmetric, equations have been derived for mean cell age and mean cell volume. The data are consistent with the notion that initiation of the cell cycle occurs at "start" after attainment of a critical cell size, and this size is dependent on growth rate, being, at slow growth rates, 63% of the volume of fast growth rates. Previous reports are reanalyzed in the light of the unequal division model and associated population equations.

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