We previously reported that GTS1 is involved in regulating ultradian oscillations of the glycolytic pathway induced by cyanide in cell suspensions as well as oscillations of energy metabolism in aerobic continuous cultures. Here, we screened a yeast cDNA library for proteins that bind to Gts1p using the yeast two-hybrid system and cloned multiple TDH cDNAs encoding the glycolytic enzyme glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH). We found that the zinc-finger and dimerization sites of Gts1p were required for full ability to bind GAPDH, and Gts1ps mutated at these sites lost the ability to regulate both aerobic and unaerobic ultradian oscillations of energy metabolism.Of the three TDH genes, only TDH1 fluctuated at the mRNA level in continuous culture and its deletion resulted in the disappearance of the oscillation without any affect on growth rate. This loss of biological rhythms in the TDH1-deleted mutant was rescued by the expression of TDH1 but not of TDH2 or TDH3 under the control of the TDH1 promoter. Thus, we hypothesized that Gts1p plays a role in the regulation of metabolic oscillation by interacting with the TDH1 product, GAPDH1, in yeast.Keywords: continuous culture; glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase; Gts1p; metabolic oscillation; yeast.Ultradian (cycles with a period shorter than 24 h) oscillations of the glycolytic pathway were induced after addition of glucose by inhibiting mitochondrial respiration with cyanide in cell suspensions [1][2][3] or cell extracts [4] of yeast with a periodicity of 1-2 min as monitored by measuring the level of NAD(P)H (reviewed in [5]). The glycolytic pathway has been shown to be an autogenous oscillator under extreme nonequilibrium conditions of energy in dissipative structures, which theoretically include all living organisms [5][6][7]. The pathway oscillates under the primary control of phosphofructokinase [8,9], transferring energy from glucose to NADH, which acts as the feed-forward activator, and then from NADH to ATP, which acts as the feedback inhibitor. After ATP as an inhibitor has been consumed, glucose again begins to enter the glycolytic pathway. Yeast cells also exhibit sustained ultradian oscillations of energy metabolism, with a periodicity of 4 h in continuous (chemostat) culture under aerobic conditions in an open system using a bioreactor [10][11][12][13]. (Hereafter, aerobic oscillation will be referred to as energy metabolism or metabolic oscillation in distinction from cyanide-induced glycolytic oscillation.) Energy-metabolism oscillations, which arise spontaneously under conditions of high cell density ( 5 · 10 8 cellsAEmL )1 ) [14], are detectable as a periodic change in the factors involved in energy metabolism such as dissolved oxygen (DO) levels, CO 2 production, glucose and ethanol concentrations, and amounts of storage carbohydrates [10][11][12][13]. DO oscillation is caused by the periodic change between respiratory and respiratory-fermentative phases, in which oxygen demands are relatively high and low, respectively. Although ...