期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1974
卷号:71
期号:1
页码:26-29
DOI:10.1073/pnas.71.1.26
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:Cell fusion between opposite mating types 5 and 21 of the yeast Hansenula wingei is initiated by a strong sexual agglutination reaction. The mating factors responsible for the specificity of cellular recognition are complementary glycoproteins which form a physical complex in vitro. The complex is assayed by recovery of agglutination activity of the multivalent 5-factor after the univalent 21-factor has been inactivated by treatment of the complex with alkali. The 5-factor{middle dot}21-factor complex, purified on Sepharose 6B, is large (several million daltons) and heterogeneous. The three peaks of 5-factor activity contain a number of combining sites proportional to molecular size.