APPLICATION OF PULSED FIELD CHROMOSOME ELECTROPHORESIS IN THE STUDY OF CHROMOSOMEXIIIAND THE ELECTROPHORETIC KARYOTYPE OF INDUSTRIAL STRAINS OFSACCHAROMYCESYEASTS
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- 8 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Chartered Institute of Brewers and Distillers in Journal of the Institute of Brewing
- Vol. 94 (4) , 239-243
- https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2050-0416.1988.tb04579.x
Abstract
Pulsed field chromosome electrophoresis is a powerful new technique in yeast genetics which permits the resolution of intact yeast chromosomes in an agarose gel matrix. We utilized contour-clamped homogeneous electric field electrophoresis (CHEF) to survey representative strains of Saccharomyces yeasts from the brewing, baking, distilling, sake and wine industries for their electrophoretic karyotypes. All of the strains tested were found to have a unique chromosomal profile, indicating the potential of this technology for “fingerprinting” prototrophic strains of Saccharomyces yeasts. By employing an ILV2 gene probe specific for chromosome XIII, we determined that all of the industrial strains of Saccharomyces yeasts possessed a chromosome XIII which migrated in an identical fashion to chromosome XIII from a reference haploid strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. While one lager yeast strain, Saccharomyces carlsbergensis M244, was found to contain two alleles of ILV2 when digested genomic DNA was probed with ILV2, the presence of a novel independently migrating chromosome XIII could not be detected. A homeologous chromosome XIII in this yeast will therefore have to be determined by genetic analysis. Pulsed field chromosome electrophoresis is concluded to be a technology with immediate application to Quality Control and Research and Development programs in industries using Saccharomyces yeasts.Keywords
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