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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2005, p. 7846-7857, Vol. 71, No. 12
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.12.7846-7857.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Characterization and Functional Analysis of the MAL and MPH Loci for Maltose Utilization in Some Ale and Lager Yeast Strains

Virve Vidgren, Laura Ruohonen, and John Londesborough*

VTT Biotechnology, P.O. Box 1500, FIN-02044 VTT, Finland

Received 26 January 2005/ Accepted 4 August 2005

Maltose and maltotriose are the major sugars in brewer's wort. Brewer's yeasts contain multiple genes for maltose transporters. It is not known which of these express functional transporters. We correlated maltose transport kinetics with the genotypes of some ale and lager yeasts. Maltose transport by two ale strains was strongly inhibited by other {alpha}-glucosides, suggesting the use of broad substrate specificity transporters, such as Agt1p. Maltose transport by three lager strains was weakly inhibited by other {alpha}-glucosides, suggesting the use of narrow substrate specificity transporters. Hybridization studies showed that all five strains contained complete MAL1, MAL2, MAL3, and MAL4 loci, except for one ale strain, which lacked a MAL2 locus. All five strains also contained both AGT1 (coding a broad specificity {alpha}-glucoside transporter) and MAL11 alleles. MPH genes (maltose permease homologues) were present in the lager but not in the ale strains. During growth on maltose, the lager strains expressed AGT1 at low levels and MALx1 genes at high levels, whereas the ale strains expressed AGT1 at high levels and MALx1 genes at low levels. MPHx expression was negligible in all strains. The AGT1 sequences from the ale strains encoded full-length (616 amino acid) polypeptides, but those from both sequenced lager strains encoded truncated (394 amino acid) polypeptides that are unlikely to be functional transporters. Thus, despite the apparently similar genotypes of these ale and lager strains revealed by hybridization, maltose is predominantly carried by AGT1-encoded transporters in the ale strains and by MALx1-encoded transporters in the lager strains.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: VTT Biotechnology, P.O. Box 1500, FIN-02044 VTT, Finland. Phone: 358 20 722 5996. Fax: 358 20 722 7071. E-mail: john.londesborough{at}vtt.fi.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2005, p. 7846-7857, Vol. 71, No. 12
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.12.7846-7857.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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