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REDUCTION OF SELENITE BY INTACT YEAST CELLS AND CELL-FREE PREPARATIONS

^a Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

ABSTRACT

FALCONE, GIUSEPPE (Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, N.J.), AND WALTER J. NICKERSON. Reduction of selenite by intact yeast cells and cell-free preparations. J. Bacteriol. 85:754–762. 1963.—Nonproliferating cell suspensions of Candida albicans rapidly reduced selenite to red, metallic selenium in the absence of added substrate. Cell suspensions reduced selenite optimally at pH 4.2. No added metabolite was found to be stimulatory; reduction was inhibited by methionine and formate as well as by fluoride, dinitrophenol, and certain sulfhydryl poisons. Cell-free preparations capable of reducing selenite were obtained from C. albicans and from baker's yeast disintegrated in a Hughes press. The enzymatic system had optimal activity at pH 7 with 10^–2M selenite. Activity of the system was lost on dialysis but was restored upon the addition of dialyzable substances or of boiled, undialyzed extract.

¹ Present address: Istituto di Patologia Generale, Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy.

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