The intracellular and extracellular PrA activities of mutant strains were measured under the same conditions. As shown in Fig. 2, the intracellular and extracellular PrA activity of the recombinant RY1-PEP4 was 0.43 105 U/mg and 0.31 105 U/mL,which decreased by 96% and 97%, respectively, compared with the parental strain RY-1. These results confirmed that PEP4 was
disrupted and deletion of the PEP4 could significantly decrease the PrA activity of S. cerevisiae.