Spheroplasts were prepared from cells of
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
NCYC 366, grown at 30 or 15 C, by incubating cells with snail-gut juice after pretreatment with 2-mercaptoethanol. Walls of cells grown batchwise or in continuous culture at 15 C were more resistant to digestion with snail juice than walls on cells grown under the same conditions as 30 C. Spheroplasts lysed when suspended in hypotonic solutions of mannitol. The resistance of spheroplasts to osmotic lysis tended to increase when the test temperature was lowered below 30 C. The increased resistance was greater with spheroplasts from cells grown at 15 C. Cations, especially Ca
2+
, protected spheroplasts against osmotic lysis. In general, the protective effects, measured at 30 C, were smaller with spheroplasts from cells grown at 15 C compared with 30 C. Citrate and ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) decreased the resistance of spheroplasts to osmotic lysis. On the whole, the decrease was greater with spheroplasts from cells grown at 30 C rather than 15 C. In the presence of EDTA, spheroplasts from cells grown at 30 C were less resistant to osmotic lysis at 5 C than at 30 C; when spheroplasts from cells grown at 15 C were similarly examined, they were more resistant to lysis at 5 C than at 30 C. Spheroplast membranes from cells grown at 15 C had slightly but significantly greater contents of Mg
2+
, Ca
2+
, K
+
, and Na
+
compared with spheroplast membranes from cells grown at 15 C. Mg
2+
and Ca
2+
were more easily extracted with EDTA from membranes of 30 C-grown cells than from 15 C-grown cells.
The Synthesis and Antitumor Evaluation of Unsymmetrical Bisimides.-A new class of antitumor agents is introduced. At first the key linker (VII) is prepared by monocondensation of the constant nitronaphthalic chromophore (VI). A second condensation with a different chromophore ( e.g. (XI)) affords the unsymmetrical bis-imides such as (XIII). It is demonstrated that the symmetry of bis-naphthalimides is unnecessary for efficacy in vitro or in vivo. Bis-imide (XIII) is identified as a potent, water-soluble antitumor agent. -(CHERNEY, R. J.; SWARTZ, S. G.; PATTEN, A. D.; AKAMIKE, E.; SUN, J.-H.; KALTENBACH, R. F. III; SEITZ, S. P.; BEHRENS, C. H.; GETAHUN, Z.; TRAINOR, G. L.; VAVALA, M.; KIRSHENBAUM, M. R.; PAPP, L. M.; STAFFORD, M. P.; CZERNIAK, P. M.; DIAMOND, R. J.; MCRIPLEY, R.
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