A Na(+)/H(+) antiporter gene (CvNHA1) was cloned from the salt-tolerant yeast Candida versatilis. CvNHA1 encodes an antiporter with a typical yeast plasma membrane Na(+)/H(+) antiporter structure. Transcription of CvNHA1 in C. versatilis cells was dependent on the salinity of the culture. When CvNHA1 was expressed in salt-sensitive Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells, increased salt-tolerance was observed, indicating that Cvnha1p possesses an Na(+)/H(+) antiporter function, because the increased salt-tolerance was dependent on the extracellular pH. It appears that Cvnha1p mediates only the transport of Na(+). In an S. cerevisiae transformant harboring a CvNHA1-EGFP fusion plasmid in which the greater part of the C-terminal hydrophilic region of Cvnha1p was deleted by fusion with enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), the Cvnha1-EGFP fusion protein was localized mainly in the plasma membrane, and the NaCl-tolerance of this transformant was greater than that of a strain harboring the entire CvNHA1 gene.

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Watanabe Y, Akita H, Higuchi Y, Tsujimatsu R, Kaneta T, Tamai Y

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