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J Bacteriol. 1967 October; 94(4): 1236-1243
Copyright © 1967 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Fine-Structure Analysis of Intercellular and Intracellular Mitochondrial Diversity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Department of Biological Sciences, Douglass Campus, Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903

ABSTRACT

Crosses were made between haploid wild-type and suppressive petite strains of bakers' yeast to obtain zygotes for analysis of mitochondrial heterogeneity. Wild-type x petite zygotes contained about 40% noncristate mitochondria when immediate mating mixtures were examined. The frequency of defective mitochondria had decreased to an average of 9.2% in 1-week-old zygote isolate cultures, and to 4.4% in slant cultures 1.5 years after initial zygote isolation. The latter value was not significantly different from values obtained with wild x wild zygotes of either age. The noncristate mitochondria were of two types: one lacking inner membrane invaginations or elaborations and the other containing concentrically arranged loops of inner membrane. The significance of these two types of respiration-deficient mitochondria is unknown. The gradual decrease in frequency of noncristate mitochondria, perhaps due to selection pressures in mixed chondriomes, was discussed as a further indication of the semiautonomous nature of the yeast organelle.