We have studied the effects of phosphate starvation on the levels and distributions of activities of acid phosphatase and beta-hexosaminidase in cultures of Tetrahymena thermophila. The cells were grown in synthetic nutrient medium and refed every day with fresh medium. After 4 days of growth in the complete medium, the cultures were divided into two portions. One received complete medium and the other phosphate-free, but otherwise complete, medium. Population densities and activities of acid phosphatase and beta-hexosaminidase in cells plus medium and in cell-free samples were determined in aliquots removed every day before medium replacement. In cultures having complete medium the enzyme levels remained fairly constant; in the phosphate-starved cultures both total and extracellular activities of acid phosphatase increased sixfold. beta-Hexosaminidase levels remained essentially unaltered in both cases. These results indicate that phosphate starvation can induce differential increase in acid phosphatase activity in cultures of Tetrahymena. Somewhat less than 50% of the total activities of both enzymes are found in the cell-free extracellular fluid at any time.
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