“…S. cerevisiae, strain DURA (MATa his3-v leu2-3 leu2-112 trp1-289a URA3), which was obtained by integrating the URA3 gene into strain DBY747 [8], was used for the growth experiments. E. coli plasmid vector pHSG398 [9] was purchased from Takara Shuzo Co. Plasmids pFRDS and pOSM1, bearing the FRDS and OSM1 genes, respectively, were constructed during previous studies [5,6]. Two plasmids, pURAKm, which contained the URA3 gene and the kanamycin resistant (Km r ) gene from pNH-Kan/oriT plasmid [10], and pHTHAKm, which contained Lthienyl alanine resistant (THA r ) [11] gene and the Km r gene, were constructed and used for construction of the disruption cassettes of the FRDS and OSM1 genes (see Fig.…”