Abstract
Non-chromosomal petites can be produced in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by treatment with guanidine hydrochloride, a protein denaturing agent. Its efficiency in inducing petite mutants is comparable to the action of ethidium bromide. The high frequency of petite mutants observed is due to an induction effect rather than to a selection of preexisting mutants. Induction of petites by guanidine hydrochloride occurs even in non growing conditions, indicating that even parental cells are transformed in petites. Transformation depends upon the physiological properties of the cells, since repressed cells, cultivated in the presence of glucose, are more easily transformed than cells cultivated in ethanol.
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