Sorbitol → L-Leucine

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The starting yeast is Saccharomyces cerevisiae AH 22 [a, leu 2, his 4, can 1 (Cir+)], which has been deposited at Fermentation Research Institute, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan under Budapest Treaty as "FERM BP-312". The starting yeast is inoculated in YPD medium (100 ml) consisting of 2% polypeptone, 1% yeast extract and 2% glucose, and the mixture is incubated at 30° C. overnight, and thereafter, the cells are collected by centrifugation. The cells thus collected are washed with sterilized water (20 ml), suspended in a solution (5 ml) of 1.2M sorbitol and Zymolyase-60,000 (manufactured by Seikagaku Kogyo K. K., Japan, 100 μg/ml), and the suspension is allowed to stand at 30° C. for 30 minutes to yield spheroplasts. The spheroplasts thus prepared are washed with 1.2M sorbitol solution three times, and then suspended in a solution (0.6 ml) of 2M sorbitol, 10 mM CaCl2 and 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5). The suspension thus prepared is divided into a small test tube in a volume of 60 μl. To the suspension is added the solution of the recombinant plasmid pONYGB2 (10 μg) as prepared above (3). After mixing well, 0.1M CaCl2 (3 μl) is added thereto in a final concentration of 10 mM CaCl2, and the mixture is allowed to stand at room temperature for 5 to 10 minutes. To the resulting mixture is added each 1 ml of a solution of 20% polyethylene glycol 4,000, 10 mM CaCl2 and 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), and the mixture is allowed to stand at room temperature for about 20 minutes. The resulting mixture (each 0.2 ml) is added to a medium (10 ml) consisting of 22% sorbitol, 2% glucose, 0.7% yeast nitrogen base amino acid, 2% YPD, 20 μg/ml histidine and 3% agar, which is kept at a constant temperature of 45° C. After gently mixing, the mixture is added in a layer onto a plate of minimal medium containing 1.2M sorbitol which is previously prepared and consists of 0.7% yeast nitrogen base amino acid, 2% glucose, 20 μg/ml histidine and 2% agar and is set thereon. The plate is incubated at 30° C. to yield colonies of non-leucine requiring yeast. A colony is incubated in a BurkHolder minimal medium supplemented with histidine (20 μg/ml) [cf. Tohe, A. et al; J. Bacterol., 113, 727-738, 1973] to give the desired transformed yeast: Saccharomyces cerevisiae YGBS.

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