Description
A880 has pop2 deletion and a very slow-growth phenotype with glycerol as carbon source. A880 transformed with 2-micron plasmids encoding STM1 can grow robustly on glycerol plates. The Arg237 on Stm1p can be methylated by Hmt1p. A880 transformed with 2-micron plasmids encoding the Stm1p R237K mutant retain the slow-growth phenotype on glycerol plates.