Publications
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| microcycle conidiation and its genetic basis in neurospora crassa. | some wild isolates of neurospora show microcycle conidiation in liquid culture under continuous agitation. macroconidia from agar-grown mycelial cultures germinated in liquid and the germlings spontaneously produced conidia with no intervening mycelial phase. three types of microcycle conidiation were seen among progeny of n. crassa vickramam a x n. crassa a wild-type: (1) multinucleate blastoconidia produced by apical budding and septation, (2) multinucleate arthroconidia produced by holothalli ... | 1991 | 1836224 |
| characterization of two beta-tubulin genes from geotrichum candidum. | the beta-tubulin genes g beta 1 and g beta 2 from the phytopathogenic hemiascomycete geotrichum candidum were found to be highly diverged in amino acid sequence from those of other filamentous fungi. g beta 1 and g beta 2 were also divergent from each other, with the coding regions sharing only 66% nucleotide sequence homology and 64% amino acid identity. however, the proteins shared 82% similarity and only 25 of the 161 non-identical amino acid substitutions were non-conservative. the organizat ... | 1991 | 1836049 |
| pectinase production by neurospora crassa: purification and biochemical characterization of extracellular polygalacturonase activity. | the production of pectinase was studied in neurospora crassa, using the hyperproducer mutant exo-1, which synthesized and secreted five to six times more enzyme than the wild-type. polygalacturonase, pectin lyase and pectate lyase were induced by pectin, and this induction was glucose-repressible. polygalacturonase was induced by galactose four times more efficiently than by pectin; in contrast the activity of lyases was not affected by galactose. the inducing effect of galactose on polygalactur ... | 1991 | 1835496 |
| qualitative differences in the spectra of genetic damage in 2-aminopurine-induced ad-3 mutants between nucleotide excision-repair-proficient and -deficient strains of neurospora crassa. | the mutagenic effects of 2-aminopurine (2ap) have been compared in the adenine-3 (ad-3) region of two-component heterokaryons of neurospora crassa: nucleotide excision repair-proficient (uvs-2+/uvs-2+) heterokaryon 12 (h-12) and nucleotide excision repair-deficient (uvs-2/uvs-2) heterokaryon 59 (h-59). this forward-mutation, morphological and biochemical, specific-locus assay system permits the recovery of ad-3a and/or ad-3b mutants in 3 major classes: gene/point mutations, multilocus deletion m ... | 1991 | 1834936 |
| utilization of the specific-locus assay in the ad-3 region of two-component heterokaryons of neurospora for risk assessment of environmental chemicals. | the utilization of the specific-locus assay in the ad-3 region of two-component heterokaryons of neurospora crassa is compared with that of other eukaryotic assay systems for the evaluation of the mutagenic effects of environmental chemicals. in contrast to other in vitro specific-locus assays, the neurospora assay can detect mutations not only at the ad-3a and ad-3b loci but also recessive lethal mutations elsewhere in the genome. mutational damage in this system can be characterized readily by ... | 1991 | 1834935 |
| an apparent rare-codon effect on the rate of translation of a neurospora gene. | as the result of two mutually compensating frameshift mutations, three successive codons with third-position a were generated in the neurospora crassa am (nadp-specific glutamate dehydrogenase: gdh) gene. these codons do not occur at all elsewhere in the gene and only infrequently in other highly expressed neurospora genes. the double-frameshift strain produces only 25 to 35% of the normal level of gdh, whether measured as enzyme activity or as immunoprecipitable protein, but its level of gdh mr ... | 1991 | 1834852 |
| electron microscopic analysis of the peripheral and membrane parts of mitochondrial nadh dehydrogenase (complex i). | two related forms of the respiratory chain nadh dehydrogenase (nadh:ubiquinone reductase or complex i) are synthesized in the mitochondria of neurospora crassa. normally growing cells make a large form that consists of 25 subunits encoded by nuclear dna and six to seven subunits encoded by mitochondrial dna. cells grown in the presence of chloramphenicol, however, make a smaller form comprising only 13 subunits, all encoded by nuclear dna. when the large enzyme is dissected by chaotropic agents ... | 1991 | 1834851 |
| expression of meiotic drive elements spore killer-2 and spore killer-3 in asci of neurospora tetrasperma. | it was shown previously that when a chromosomal spore killer factor is heterozygous in neurospora species with eight-spored asci, the four sensitive ascospores in each ascus die and the four survivors are all killers. sk-2k and sk-3k are nonrecombining haplotypes that segregate with the centromere of linkage group iii. no killing occurs when either one of these killers is homozygous, but each is sensitive to killing by the other in crosses of sk-2k x sk-3k. in the present study, sk-2k and sk-3k ... | 1991 | 1834522 |
| inhibition of neurospora crassa cytosolic chitinase by allosamidin. | a cytosolic chitinase (20 kda by sds-page) was partially purified from neurospora crassa. linear kinetics for enzyme activity were obtained using the substrate [3h]-labelled regenerated chitin, the preparation yielding an apparent km of 0.965 mg ml-1 and a vmax of 3.83 micrograms glcnac min-1 (mg protein)-1. the enzyme was highly sensitive to allosamidin, an inhibitor of insect chitinase, exhibiting an ic50 of 1.6 microm. unlike other chitinases that are inhibited by allosamidin, the mode of inh ... | 1991 | 1834520 |
| developmental expression of genes involved in conidiation and amino acid biosynthesis in neurospora crassa. | the levels of transcripts for neurospora crassa genes concerned with cellular and metabolic functions changed dramatically at different stages of asexual development. transcripts for some conidiation-related (con) genes were present at high levels in conidiating cultures and in dormant conidia, but were absent or reduced during mycelial growth. levels of some con transcripts increased transiently during conidial germination, while others disappeared. transcripts for amino acid biosynthetic enzym ... | 1991 | 1834495 |
| sequence of the nuclear atp synthase subunit 9 gene of podospora anserina: lack of similarity to the mitochondrial genome. | the nuclear gene coding for the mitochondrial subunit 9 of the f0f1-atp synthase complex was isolated from a genomic library of podospora anserina. nucleotide sequencing revealed an open reading frame capable to code for 144 amino acids including an amino-terminal pre-sequence of 63 amino acid residues for mitochondrial import of the pre-proteolipid. the p. anserina proteolipid shows extensive sequence identity with the corresponding gene products of the related filamentous fungi neurospora cras ... | 1991 | 1834355 |
| generation of new mutants of nmr, the negative-acting nitrogen regulatory gene of neurospora crassa, by repeat induced mutation. | the repeat induced point mutation (rip) phenomenon has been used to generate new mutants of nmr, the negative nitrogen regulatory gene in neurospora crassa. the wild-type nmr gene was cotransformed along with the hygromycin b resistance gene into wild-type cells by selecting for hygromycin b resistance. following purification of primary transformants using microconidia, many chlorate-sensitive progeny were obtained from crosses to wild-type. detailed analyses of some of the progeny revealed that ... | 1991 | 1834354 |
| [synthesis and antifungal activity of chlorobenzyl benzylidene thiazolidinediones and substituted of imidazolidinediones]. | the synthesis of six benzylidene thiazolidinediones and four benzylidene imidazolidinediones is described. in order to investigate their antifungal activity, they are evaluated against microorganism such as candida albicans, neurospora crassa, staphylococcus aureus and escherichia coli. | 1991 | 1834006 |
| cloning and functional characterization of a eucaryotic dna photolyase gene from neurospora crassa. | we cloned a genomic fragment of a photolyase gene from neurospora crassa by polymerase chain reaction using synthesized oligonucleotide primers designed from the most conserved amino acid sequences among photolyases of various organisms. using the cloned fragment as a hybridization probe we isolated a genomic fragment and cdna clones encoding the complete photolyase gene of this organism. the amino acid sequence of the photolyase deduced from the determined nucleotide sequence indicates a protei ... | 1991 | 1833725 |
| antibodies against the 59 kda polypeptide of the n. crassa 8-10 nm filaments immunodetect a 59 kda polypeptide in specialized rat epithelial cells. | p59nc is a polypeptide associated with bundles of cytoplasmic and nuclear filamentous structures of 8-10 nm of diameter in neurospora crassa cells. it is immunologically unrelated to both higher and lower eucaryotic tubulin and actin proteins and is detected weakly by the anti ifa monoclonal antibody. we analyze here the immunological relationship between p59nc and intermediate filament (if) mammalian proteins by using anti p59nc, anti keratin, anti vimentin and anti ifa antibodies. anti p59nc a ... | 1991 | 1833626 |
| the initiation site for recombination cog is at the 3' end of the his-3 gene in neurospora crassa. | recombination at his-3 in neurospora crassa is thought to be initiated through a site designated cog which lies in the his-3 to ad-3 interval of linkage group i. fragments of the his-3 gene were used to transform various his-3 mutant alleles to prototrophy in order to link the genetic map to the nucleotide sequence. it was established that cog is at the 3' end of his-3 and is therefore not the his-3 promoter. this suggests that cog may be dissimilar to a number of yeast recombinators which are a ... | 1991 | 1833619 |
| the respiratory response to heat shock in neurospora crassa. | a sharp decrease in oxygen uptake occurred in neurospora crassa cells that were transferred from 30 degrees c to 45 degrees c, and the respiration that resumed later at 45 degrees c was cyanide-insensitive. energization of mitochondria, measured in vivo with fluorescence microscopy and a carbocyanine dye, also declined sharply in cells at 45 degrees c. electron microscopy showed no changes in mitochondrial complexity; however, the cytoplasm of heat-shocked cells was deficient in glycogen granule ... | 1991 | 1833266 |
| regulation of laccase synthesis in induced neurospora crassa cultures. | rapidly growing cultures of n. crassa do not produce laccase. exposure of this fungus to different inducing agents leads to a de novo biosynthesis of extracellular laccase in vegetative cultures. in this study the induction of laccase after addition of cycloheximide and d-phenylalanine is reported. de novo synthesis of laccase mrna was followed over 96 h after induction. a fast appearance of the message, as well as its presence over a rather long period, indicates a regulation on a transcription ... | 1991 | 1833078 |
| nadh:ubiquinone oxidoreductase from bovine heart mitochondria. cdna sequences of the import precursors of the nuclear-encoded 39 kda and 42 kda subunits. | the 39 kda and 42 kda subunits of nadh:ubiquinone oxidoreductase from bovine heart mitochondria are nuclear-coded components of the hydrophobic protein fraction of the enzyme. their amino acid sequences have been deduced from the sequences of overlapping cdna clones. these clones were amplified from total bovine heart cdna by means of the polymerase chain reaction, with the use of complex mixtures of oligonucleotide primers based upon fragments of protein sequence determined at the n-terminals o ... | 1991 | 1832859 |
| polyamine toxicity in neurospora crassa: protective role of the vacuole. | we used mutant strains of neurospora crassa to define the discretionary capacity of this species for excess putrescine. the spe-3 mutant, which accumulates putrescine internally, and the puu-1 mutant, which accumulates toxic levels of putrescine from the medium, both sequestered large excesses of putrescine in vacuoles. concomitantly in puu-1, inorganic polyphosphate increased modestly and some of the monovalent cation of the vacuole was discharged. these two factors contribute to the increased ... | 1991 | 1832828 |
| calcium modulation of polyamine transport is lost in a putrescine-sensitive mutant of neurospora crassa. | putrescine transport in neurospora is saturable and concentrative in dilute buffers, but in the growth medium putrescine simply equilibrates across the cell membrane. we describe a mutant, puu-1, that can concentrate putrescine from the growth medium because the polyamine transport system has lost its normal sensitivity to ca2+. the wild type closely resembles the mutant if it is washed with citrate and ethylene glycol bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)n,n'-tetraacetic acid. the mutant phenotype also ap ... | 1991 | 1832827 |
| molecular organisation of the malate synthase genes of aspergillus nidulans and neurospora crassa. | the sequencing and comparison of the genes encoding the glyoxylate bypass enzyme malate synthase of aspergillus nidulans (acue) and neurospora crassa (acu-9) are presented. the predicted amino acid sequences of the a. nidulans and n. crassa enzymes are 538 and 542 residues respectively and the proteins are 87% homologous. in fungi, the malate synthase proteins are located in glyoxysomes and the deduced acue and acu-9 proteins both contain a c-terminal s-k-l sequence, which has been implicated in ... | 1991 | 1832736 |
| the acyl-carrier protein in neurospora crassa mitochondria is a subunit of nadh:ubiquinone reductase (complex i). | we determined the primary structure of a 9.6-kda subunit of the respiratory chain nadh:ubiquinone reductase (complex i) from neurospora crassa mitochondria and found a close relationship between this subunit and the bacterial or chloroplast acyl-carrier protein. the degree of sequence identity amounts to 80% in a region of 19 residues around the serine to which the phosphopantetheine is bound. the n-terminal presequence of the subunit has the characteristic features of a mitochondrial import seq ... | 1991 | 1832379 |
| a novel phenotype of an excision-repair mutant in neurospora crassa: mutagen sensitivity of the mus-18 mutant is specific to uv. | a uv-sensitive mutant has been isolated from uv-mutagenized conidia of neurospora crassa. the mutation responsible for the lesion was mapped in linkage group vl, proximal to the nucleolus organizer region. we designated the mutant mus-18. the sensitivity of the mus-18 mutant to uv-irradiation was not particularly high, being less than twice that of the wild-type strain. however, the frequency of mutations at the ad-3 loci induced by uv was extremely high even at low doses, under conditions where ... | 1991 | 1832207 |
| primary structures of two subunits of nadh: ubiquinone reductase from neurospora crassa concerned with nadh-oxidation. relationship to a soluble nad-reducing hydrogenase of alcaligenes eutrophus. | the primary structures of the nuclear-encoded 51 kda and 78 kda subunits of the respiratory chain nadh: ubiquinone reductase (complex i) from neurospora crassa mitochondria were determined by sequencing cdna and the n-terminus of the mature proteins. both subunits are related to the soluble nad-reducing hydrogenase of the bacterium alcaligenes eutrophus. sequence comparison between these subunits, the corresponding subunits of the bovine complex i and the bacterial nad-reducing hydrogenase furth ... | 1991 | 1832016 |
| mutational analysis of the dna-binding domain of the cys3 regulatory protein of neurospora crassa. | cys-3, the major sulfur regulatory gene of neurospora crassa, activates the expression of a set of unlinked structural genes which encode sulfur catabolic-related enzymes during conditions of sulfur limitation. the cys-3 gene encodes a regulatory protein of 236 amino acid residues with a leucine zipper and an upstream basic region (the b-zip region) which together may constitute a dna-binding domain. the b-zip region was expressed in escherichia coli to examine its dna-binding activity. the b-zi ... | 1991 | 1831537 |
| evolutionary conservation of a microbody targeting signal that targets proteins to peroxisomes, glyoxysomes, and glycosomes. | peroxisomes, glyoxysomes, glycosomes, and hydrogenosomes have each been classified as microbodies, i.e., subcellular organelles with an electron-dense matrix that is bound by a single membrane. we investigated whether these organelles might share a common evolutionary origin by asking if targeting signals used for translocation of proteins into these microbodies are related. a peroxisomal targeting signal (pts) consisting of the cooh-terminal tripeptide serine-lysine-leucine-cooh has been identi ... | 1991 | 1831458 |
| cloning the mating types of the heterothallic fungus podospora anserina: developmental features of haploid transformants carrying both mating types. | dnas that encode the mating-type functions (mat+ and mat-) of the filamentous fungus podospora anserina were cloned with the use of the mating-type a probe from neurospora crassa. cloning the full mat information was ascertained through gene replacement experiments. molecular and functional analyses of haploid transformants carrying both mating types lead to several striking conclusions. mat+ mat- strains are dual maters. however, the resident mat information is dominant to the mat information a ... | 1991 | 1831427 |
| 2-amino-n6-hydroxyadenine induces gene/point mutations and multiple-locus mutations, but not multilocus deletion mutations, in the ad-3 region of a two-component heterokaryon of neurospora crassa. | the mutagenicity of 2-amino-n6-hydroxyadenine (aha) has been studied in neurospora crassa by treating a two-component heterokaryon (h-12) and recovering specific-locus mutations induced in the ad-3 region. this assay system permits the identification of ad-3a and/or ad-3b mutants resulting from gene/point mutations, multilocus deletion mutations, and multiple-locus mutations of various genotypes, involving one or both loci. genetic characterization of the ad-3 mutants recovered from experiments ... | 1991 | 1831243 |
| short dispersed repeats localized in spacer regions of chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondrial dna. | in the mtdna of chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a unicellular green alga, we have identified a set of short repeated sequences up to 65 nucleotides long, each of which contains the palindromic consensus motif ctcgg(n4-14)ccgag. most of these repeated elements are localized in spacer regions that flank the transcribed coding regions of c. reinhardtii mtdna. these algal mitochondrial repeats have features reminiscent of short repeats in some fungal mtdnas, such as gc clusters in saccharomyces cerevisia ... | 1991 | 1831072 |
| determination of electric parameters of cell membranes by a dielectrophoresis method. | marszalek, p., j. j. zielinsky, and m. fikus (1989. bioelectrochem. bioenerg. 22:289-298) have described a novel design for measuring the complete dielectrophoretic spectrum of a single cell. from the analysis of the dielectrophoretic spectrum, the membrane conductivity, sigma membr, and the membrane dielectric permittivity, epsilon membr, of the cell may be determined according to the theory of dielectrophoresis described by sauer, f. a. (1985. interactions between electromagnetic field and cel ... | 1991 | 1831052 |
| photostimulation of conidiation in mutants of neurospora crassa. | various mutants of neurospora crassa were screened for light-stimulated conidiation which is a blue light effect and, at least in strain albino-band, is mediated by the flavoprotein nitrate reductase (nr). nr- mutants showed practically no photoconidiation under standard conditions. however, in fusion products of nit-1 (diaphorase activity present, terminal activity missing) plus nit-3 (terminal activity present, diaphorase activity missing), nr activities and photoconidiation were partially res ... | 1991 | 1830899 |
| identification of the membrane-embedded regions of the neurospora crassa plasma membrane h(+)-atpase. | reconstituted proteoliposomes containing functional neurospora crassa plasma membrane h(+)-atpase molecules oriented predominantly with their cytoplasmic surface exposed were treated with trypsin and then subjected to sepharose cl-6b column chromatography to remove the liberated peptides. the peptides remaining associated with the liposomes were then separated from the phospholipid by sephadex lh-60 column chromatography and analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. ... | 1991 | 1830591 |
| primary structure of the nuclear-encoded 18.3 kda subunit of nadh: ubiquinone reductase (complex i) from neurospora crassa mitochondria. | the primary structure of the nuclear-encoded 18.3 kda subunit of the respiratory chain nadh: ubiquinone reductase (complex i) from neurospora crassa was determined by sequencing cdna and the n-terminus of the protein. the cdna contains an open reading frame for a protein of 206 amino acids. the mature protein consists of 173 amino acids and has a molar mass of 18,341 da. the precursor protein includes a characteristic mitochondrial import sequence with a typical matrix peptidase processing site. | 1991 | 1830490 |
| primary structure of the nuclear-encoded 29.9 kda subunit of nadh: ubiquinone reductase from neurospora crassa mitochondria. | we isolated and sequenced cdna for the 29.9 kda subunit of mitochondrial nadh: ubiquinone reductase (complex i) from a neurospora crassa library in the lambda gt11 expression vector. the n-terminus of the mature protein was determined by edman-degradation. the cdna contains an open reading frame encoding a preprotein of 273 amino acids. the presequence of the transit protein essential for mitochondrial import is eight residues long. northern-blot analysis shows, that the level of the correspondi ... | 1991 | 1830489 |
| nadh:ubiquinone oxidoreductase from bovine mitochondria. cdna sequence of a 19 kda cysteine-rich subunit. | the sequence of a 19 kda subunit of nadh:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex i) from bovine heart mitochondria has been determined by a new strategy based on the polymerase chain reaction. the subunits of the enzyme were resolved in a polyacrylamide gel by two-dimensional isoelectric focusing and electrophoresis under denaturing conditions, transferred to a poly(vinylidene difluoride) membrane, and the n-terminal sequence was determined on the stained 19 kda protein up to residue 27. this informa ... | 1991 | 1830204 |
| the neurospora crassa cyt-20 gene encodes cytosolic and mitochondrial valyl-trna synthetases and may have a second function in addition to protein synthesis. | the cyt-20-1 mutant of neurospora crassa is a temperature-sensitive, cytochrome b- and aa3-deficient strain that is severely deficient in both mitochondrial and cytosolic protein synthesis (r.a. collins, h. bertrand, r.j. lapolla, and a.m. lambowitz, mol. gen. genet. 177:73-84, 1979). we cloned the cyt-20+ gene by complementation of the cyt-20-1 mutation and found that it contains a 1,093-amino-acid open reading frame (orf) that encodes both the cytosolic and mitochondrial valyl-trna synthetases ... | 1991 | 1830127 |
| beta-oxidation system of the filamentous fungus neurospora crassa. structural characterization of the trifunctional protein. | treatment of the trifunctional protein from neurospora crassa with various proteases produced almost identical patterns of proteolytic fragments. to study the structural features of the protein in more detail limited proteolysis with trypsin was carried out. polyclonal antibodies were raised against three different tryptic fragments. with the help of immunological methods and amino-terminal sequence analysis we were able to monitor the sequential cleavage steps during proteolysis. two major frag ... | 1991 | 1830049 |
| the beta-oxidation system in catalase-free microbodies of the filamentous fungus neurospora crassa. purification of a multifunctional protein possessing 2-enoyl-coa hydratase, l-3-hydroxyacyl-coa dehydrogenase, and 3-hydroxyacyl-coa epimerase activities. | a trifunctional beta-oxidation protein, designated tfp, was purified to apparent homogeneity from oleate-induced mycelia of neurospora crassa. 2-enoyl-coa hydratase, l-3-hydroxyacyl-coa dehydrogenase, and 3-hydroxyacyl-coa epimerase activities copurified in constant ratios with this protein when crude extracts were subjected to cation-exchange, dye-ligand, and adsorption chromatography. trifunctionality was substantiated by coinciding enzyme activity ratios during the last two purification steps ... | 1991 | 1830048 |
| suppression of the cr-1 mutation in neurospora crassa. | we have cloned a dna fragment, which hybridized with the adenylate cyclase gene (cyr1) of saccharomyces cerevisiae, from genomic dna libraries of neurospora crassa. the cr-1 mutation was able to be suppressed by introducing this dna fragment on a cosmid vector, judging from recovery of the adenylate cyclase activity and the abnormal morphology. | 1991 | 1829616 |
| nit-3, the structural gene of nitrate reductase in neurospora crassa: nucleotide sequence and regulation of mrna synthesis and turnover. | the nit-3 gene of the filamentous fungus neurospora crassa encodes the enzyme nitrate reductase, which catalyzes the first reductive step in the highly regulated nitrate assimilatory pathway. the nucleotide sequence of nit-3 was determined and translates to a protein of 982 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of approximately 108 kda. comparison of the deduced nit-3 protein sequence with the nitrate reductase protein sequences of other fungi and higher plants revealed that a significant ... | 1991 | 1829499 |
| regulation of biosynthesis of l-amino acid oxidase by neurospora crassa. | l-amino acid oxidase was purified from liquid cultures of neurospora crassa induced by l-phenylalanine, d-phenylalanine, atp and cycloheximide. although the four enzyme species isolated were found to differ in size and electrophoretic mobility, they were the product of a single gene as demonstrated by genomic southern analysis. northern analysis of total cellular rna showed a rapid increase of l-amino acid oxidase mrna in response to the different inducing agents studied. these data suggest that ... | 1991 | 1829425 |
| one hour in 1 ata oxygen enhances rat alveolar macrophage chemiluminescence and fungal cytotoxicity. | the purpose of this study was to determine if 100% o2 would enhance rat pulmonary alveolar macrophage (pam) oxidative killing of conidia of the fungus neurospora crassa. first, we found that incubation in 100% o2 had no effect on conidia viability in the absence of pam. we obtained resident pam from nonpretreated anesthetized male sprague-dawley rats by bronchoalveolar lavage. compared with similar air exposures we found that 1 h in vitro exposure of pam to 100% o2 (1.0 atmosphere absolute) incr ... | 1991 | 1829328 |
| heterologous expression and regulation of the neurospora crassa nit-4 pathway-specific regulatory gene for nitrate assimilation in aspergillus nidulans. | the nira gene of aspergillus nidulans and the nit-4 gene of neurospora crassa appear to be equivalent pathway-specific regulatory genes which mediate nitrate induction of nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase (nr and nir) activities. we have transformed the nit-4 wild-type (wt) gene into the a. nidulans loss-of-function (pleiotropic negative) nira 1 mutant strain. the nit-4 gene was found to complement the nira 1 mutation, thus permitting the nira 1 mutant strain to grow on nitrate or nitrite ... | 1991 | 1829047 |
| purification of nad glycohydrolase from neurospora crassa conidia by a polyclonal immunoadsorbent. | nad glycohydrolase from neurospora crassa conidia was purified by affinity chromatography on a column of polyclonal antibodies bound to an agarose matrix. the procedure was easy, non-denaturating and suitable for repetitive use of the gel. the enzyme obtained appeared homogeneous by sodiumdodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. | 1991 | 1828469 |
| duplication of leader sequence for protein targeting to mitochondria leads to increased import efficiency. | we describe a novel method for enhancing protein import into mitochondria, by tandemly duplicating the n-terminal cleavable leader peptide using a gene manipulation strategy. the import into isolated yeast mitochondria of passenger proteins (yeast mitochondrial atp synthase subunits 8 and 9 and some mutagenised derivatives) that show little or no import when endowed with one such leader (that of neurospora crassa mitochondrial atp synthase subunit 9) is remarkably improved when the leader is tan ... | 1991 | 1828039 |
| purification and properties of a casein kinase ii-like enzyme from neurospora crassa. | a serine/threonine protein kinase was partially purified from neurospora crassa. its physical and catalytic properties were typical of casein kinase ii. in vitro, the kinase phosphorylated a calpain like protease from allomyces arbuscula with higher affinity than a mixture of caseins. | 1991 | 1827768 |
| specificity of repeat-induced point mutation (rip) in neurospora: sensitivity of non-neurospora sequences, a natural diverged tandem duplication, and unique dna adjacent to a duplicated region. | the process designated rip (repeat-induced point mutation) alters duplicated dna sequences in the sexual cycle of neurospora crassa. we tested whether non-neurospora sequences are susceptible to rip, explored the basis for the observed immunity to this process of a diverged tandem duplication that probably arose by a natural duplication followed by rip (the neurospora zeta-eta region), and investigated whether rip extends at all into unique sequences bordering a duplicated region. bacterial sequ ... | 1991 | 1827630 |
| recurrence of repeat-induced point mutation (rip) in neurospora crassa. | duplicate dna sequences in the genome of neurospora crassa can be detected and mutated in the sexual phase of the life cycle by a process termed rip (repeat-induced point mutation). rip occurs in the haploid nuclei of fertilized, premeiotic cells before fusion of the parental nuclei. both copies of duplications of gene-sized sequences are affected in the first generation at frequencies of approximately 50-100%. we investigated the extent to which sequences altered by rip remain susceptible to th ... | 1991 | 1827629 |
| sulfate transport in neurospora crassa: regulation, turnover, and cellular localization of the cys-14 protein. | uptake of inorganic sulfate in neurospora crassa is governed by the sulfur regulatory circuit and is under the control of positively and negatively acting regulatory genes. two genetically and biochemically distinct systems are responsible for the uptake of sulfate from the environment. one of these, sulfate permease ii, encoded by the cys-14 gene, functions primarily in mycelia. a defined region of the cys-14 protein was highly expressed in escherichia coli and purified. anti-cys-14 antibody wa ... | 1991 | 1827594 |
| all internal promoter elements of neurospora crassa 5 s rrna and trna genes, including the a boxes, are functionally gene-specific. | the internal control elements of neurospora crassa 5 s genes include an a box and a c box as in xenopus and saccharomyces cerevisiae, plus a novel element, the ribo box at position +18 to +34. the ribo box is also found in the 40 s rrna promoter and a ribosomal protein gene but is absent from trna genes in n. crassa. the 5 s a box diverges from the trna a box consensus at two positions. we tested whether replacement of the 5 s a box with a trnaleu a box sequence would increase 5 s gene transcrip ... | 1991 | 1827115 |
| loss of nad(p)-reducing power and glutathione disulfide excretion at the start of induction of aerial growth in neurospora crassa. | when exponentially growing hyphae of neurospora crassa in aerated liquid cultures are filtered and the resulting mycelial mat is exposed to air, aerial hyphae develop and synchronous conidiation is obtained. the hyphae in direct contact with air adhere to each other within minutes and form aerial hyphae during the following 12 h; the hyphae which are not in direct contact with air do not adhere to each other and do not form aerial hyphae. previous data indicated that oxidative stress was generat ... | 1991 | 1827113 |
| identification of the active-site lysine residues of two biosynthetic 3-dehydroquinases. | the lysine residues involved in schiff-base formation at the active sites of both the 3-dehydroquinase component of the pentafunctional arom enzyme of neurospora crassa and of the monofunctional 3-dehydroquinase of escherichia coli were labelled by treatment with 3-dehydroquinate in the presence of nab3h4. radioactive peptides were isolated by h.p.l.c. following digestion with cnbr (and in one case after further digestion with trypsin). the sequence established for the n. crassa peptide was alqh ... | 1991 | 1826831 |
| regulation of molybdenum cofactor species in the green alga chlamydomonas reinhardtii. | molybdenum cofactor (moco) of molybdoenzymes is constitutively produced in cells of the green alga chlamydomonas reinhardtii grown in ammonium media, under which conditions certain molybdoenzymes are not synthesized. in soluble form, moco was found to be present in several forms: (i) as a low mr free species; (ii) bound to a moco-carrier protein of about 50 kda that could release moco to directly reconstitute in vitro nitrate reductase activity in the nit-1 mutant of neurospora crassa, but not t ... | 1991 | 1826614 |
| metalloselenonein, the selenium analogue of metallothionein: synthesis and characterization of its complex with copper ions. | we used an automated peptide synthesizer to produce a peptide, metalloselenonein, that contains selenocysteine residues substituted for all cysteine residues in neurospora crassa copper metallothionein. metalloselenonein binds 3 mol of cu(i) per mol. this adduct shows a broad absorption band between 230 and 400 nm and a fluorescence band at 395 nm, which can be attributed to copper-selenolate coordination. the circular dichroism spectrum of the copper-metalloselenonein complex shows a positive b ... | 1991 | 1826562 |
| nucleotide and dna uptake by neurospora crassa: involvement of an uptake stimulating protein. | the basal and dusf (dna-uptake-stimulating factor, described previously by schablik and szabó (1981) fems microbiol. lett. 10, 395-397) stimulated uptake of [3h]dna and radioactive nucleotides by neurospora crassa (fgsc 1118, slime) cell-wall-less strain was studied. the uptake of [3h]dna by the cells is a saturable and time-dependent process. the ph and temperature optimum for [3h]dna uptake are ph 7 and 27 degrees c, respectively. both basal and dusf-stimulated uptake of [3h]dna are inhibited ... | 1991 | 1826455 |
| the neurospora crassa carotenoid biosynthetic gene (albino 3) reveals highly conserved regions among prenyltransferases. | in the filamentous fungus neurospora crassa the biosynthesis of carotenoids is regulated by blue light. here we report the characterization of the albino-3 (al-3) gene of n. crassa, which encodes the carotenoid biosynthetic enzyme geranylgeranyl-pyrophosphate synthetase. this is the first geranylgeranyl-pyrophosphate synthetase gene isolated. nucleotide sequence comparison of al-3 genomic and cdna clones revealed that the al-3 gene is not interrupted by introns. transcription of the al-3 gene ha ... | 1991 | 1826006 |
| purification and characterization of glutamate decarboxylase from neurospora crassa conidia. | l-glutamate decarboxylase, an enzyme under the control of the asexual developmental cycle of neurospora crassa, was purified to homogeneity from conidia. the purification procedure included ammonium sulfate fractionation and deae-sephadex and cellulose phosphate column chromatography. the final preparation gave a single band on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels with a molecular weight of 33,200 +/- 200. a single band coincident with enzyme activity was found on native 7.5% polyacrylamid ... | 1991 | 1825829 |
| 31p-nmr-studies on intracellular ph and metabolite concentrations in relation to the circadian rhythm, temperature and nutrition in neurospora crassa. | perfused mycelia of neurospora crassa were analyzed in vivo with 31p-nmr. both the cytoplasmatic and the vacuolar ph and the concentrations of phosphate metabolites were followed up to 30 h under constant conditions. no circadian changes were detected. however, slight changes in the nutrition or oxygen supply induced distinct changes in the intracellular ph and in the concentrations of metabolites. an increase of temperature from 21 to 43 degrees c lowered the intracellular ph and the metabolite ... | 1991 | 1825790 |
| cdna and genomic dna sequence of the 21.3 kda subunit of nadh:ubiquinone reductase (complex i) from neurospora crassa. | the primary structure of a nuclear-encoded subunit of the respiratory chain nadh:ubiquinone reductase (complex i) from neurospora crassa was determined by sequencing cdna, genomic dna and the n-terminus of the protein. the sequence correlates to a protein of 200 amino acids and a molecular mass of 21349 da. the protein is synthesized without a cleavable presequence. it contains two alpha-helices predicted to traverse the bilayer and is a constituent of the membrane part of complex i. | 1991 | 1825789 |
| sequence similarities within the family of dihydrolipoamide acyltransferases and discovery of a previously unidentified fungal enzyme. | a composite protein sequence database was searched for amino acid sequences similar to the c-terminal domain of the dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase subunit (e2p) of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex of escherichia coli. nine sequences with extensive similarity were found, of which eight were e2 subunits. the other was for a putative mitochondrial ribosomal protein, mrp3, from neurospora crassa. alignment of the mrp3 and e2 sequences showed that the similarity extends through the entire mrp3 ... | 1991 | 1825611 |
| the wilhelmine e. key 1989 invitational lecture. organization and regulation of the qa (quinic acid) genes in neurospora crassa and other fungi. | in neurospora crassa, five structural genes and two regulatory genes control the use of quinic acid as a carbon source. all seven genes are tightly linked to form the qa gene cluster. the entire cluster, which has been cloned and sequenced, occupies a continuous dna segment of 17.3 kb. three pairs of genes are divergently transcribed, including the two regulatory genes that are located at one end of the cluster and that encode an activator (qa-1f) and a repressor (qa-1s). three of the structural ... | 2013 | 1825499 |
| catalysis of protein folding by cyclophilins from different species. | cyclophilins are a class of ubiquitous proteins with yet unknown function. they were originally discovered as the major binding proteins for the immunosuppressant cyclosporin a. the only known catalytic function of these proteins in vitro is the cis/trans isomerization of xaa-pro bonds in oligopeptides. this became clear after the discovery that bovine cyclophilin is identical with porcine prolyl isomerase. this enzyme accelerates slow, proline-limited steps in the refolding of several proteins. ... | 1991 | 1825312 |
| relationship between a subunit of nadh dehydrogenase (complex i) and a protein family including subunits of cytochrome reductase and processing protease of mitochondria. | the primary structure of a 40 kda subunit of the respiratory chain nadh:ubiquinone reductase from neurospora crassa was determined by sequencing cdna, genomic dna and the n-terminus of the mature protein. the gene which is interrupted by 7 introns encodes a preprotein consisting of 375 amino acids with a 26 amino acid long presequence typical for a mitochondrial targeting signal. the sequence of the mature subunit shows conspicuous similarities to the recently [(1989) nature 339, 147-149] discov ... | 1991 | 1825202 |
| nucleotide sequence, messenger rna stability, and dna recognition elements of cys-14, the structural gene for sulfate permease ii in neurospora crassa. | the complete nucleotide sequence of the cys-14 gene which encodes sulfate permease ii, a member of the sulfur regulatory circuit, is presented. the cys-14 gene contains four introns with consensus splice site sequences and is transcribed from four closely spaced initiation sites located approximately 20 bp upstream of the atg initiation codon. the translated cys14 protein is composed of 781 amino acids with a molecular weight of 87,037 and contains 12 potential hydrophobic membrane-spanning doma ... | 1991 | 1825178 |
| characterization of neurospora cpc1, a bzip dna-binding protein that does not require aligned heptad leucines for dimerization. | cpc1 is the transcriptional activator of amino acid biosynthetic genes of neurospora crassa. cpc1 function in vivo was abolished upon deletion of segments of cpc-1 corresponding to the presumed transcription activation domain, the dna-binding and dimerization domains, or a 52-residue connector segment of cpc1. a truncated cpc1 polypeptide containing only the carboxy-terminal 57-residue segment of cpc1 was sufficient to form homodimers that bound dna. however, deletion of the segment of cpc-1 cor ... | 1991 | 1824960 |
| cpc-1, the general regulatory gene for genes of amino acid biosynthesis in neurospora crassa, is differentially expressed during the asexual life cycle. | cpci, the principal regulatory protein required for cross-pathway control of amino acid biosynthetic genes in neurospora crassa, contains a domain similar to the dna-binding domain of gcn4, the corresponding general regulator in saccharomyces cerevisiae. we examined binding by cpc1 synthesized in vitro and by cpc1 present in n. crassa whole-cell extracts. cpci from both sources was shown to bind to the dna sequence 5'-atgactcat-3', which is also the preferred recognition sequence of gcn4, cpc1 w ... | 1991 | 1824959 |
| relationship of the membrane atpase from halobacterium saccharovorum to vacuolar atpases. | polyclonal antiserum against subunit a (67 kda) of the vacuolar atpase from neurospora crassa reacted with subunit i (87 kda) from a membrane atpase of the extremely halophilic archaebacterium halobacterium saccharovorum. the halobacterial atpase was inhibited by nitrate and n-ethylmaleimide; the extent of the latter inhibition was diminished in the presence of adenosine di- or triphosphates. 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan inhibited the halobacterial atpase also in a nucleotide-protectable manner; ... | 1991 | 1824911 |
| purification and properties of a membrane-bound insulin binding protein, a putative receptor, from neurospora crassa. | the protein that is responsible for specific, high-affinity binding of insulin to the surface of neurospora crassa cells has been purified to homogeneity. the insulin binding activity of solubilized plasma membranes resembled that of intact cells with regard to affinity of binding, specificity for mammalian insulins, and amount of insulin bound per cell. insulin binding activity was purified from triton x-100 solubilized membranes in two steps: fplc on a monoq hr5/5 column; and affinity chromato ... | 1991 | 1824821 |
| mutagenic potency and specificity of procarbazine in the ad-3 forward-mutation test in growing cultures of heterokaryon 12 of neurospora crassa. | procarbazine (natulan) was tested for its mutagenic potency and specificity in the ad-3 forward-mutation test in heterokaryon 12 (h-12) of neurospora crassa. in these experiments, procarbazine was a weak mutagen when present in growing cultures but nonmutagenic when conidial suspensions (nongrowing conidia) were treated. a total of 208 ad-3 mutants recovered after exposure of growing cultures of h-12 to 1 mg of procarbazine/ml, and 2 ad-3 mutants of spontaneous origin, were characterized genetic ... | 1991 | 1824718 |
| x-ray-induced specific-locus mutations in the ad-3 region of two-component heterokaryons of neurospora crassa, ix. mutational spectra as a function of x-ray dose. | in previous studies, x-ray-induced specific-locus mutations in the adenine-3 (ad-3) region of a two-component heterokaryon (h-12) of neurospora crassa were combined with a series of tester strains carrying markers in the ad-3 and immediately adjacent regions to map mutants that were presumed multilocus deletions (de serres, 1989c, 1990a). two new classes of x-ray-induced mutations were recovered: multiple-locus mutations consisting of gene/point mutations at the ad-3a or ad-3b locus with a close ... | 1991 | 1824717 |
| x-ray-induced specific-locus mutations in the ad-3 region of two-component heterokaryons of neurospora crassa. viii. dose-dependence of the overall spectrum. | there is considerable controversy in the literature concerning the nature of x-ray-induced specific-locus mutations in various experimental organisms. to investigate this problem in neurospora crassa a series of experiments (webber and de serres, 1965) was performed to study the induction-kinetics of x-ray-induced mutation in the adenine-3 (ad-3) region of a two-component heterokaryon (h-12). subsequent genetic analyses (de serres, 1989a,b,c, 1990a), on a series of 832 mutants recovered in these ... | 1991 | 1824716 |
| neurospora crassa clock-controlled genes are regulated at the level of transcription. | although an extensive number of biological processes are under the daily control of the circadian biological clock, little is known about how the clock maintains its regulatory networks within a cell. an important aspect of this temporal control is the daily control of gene expression. previously we identified two morning-specific genes that are regulated by the clock through daily control of gene expression (j. loros, s. denome, and j.c. dunlap, science 243:385-388, 1989). we have now introduce ... | 1991 | 1824715 |
| [synthesis and antimicrobial activity of substituted fluorobenzyl benzylidenethiazolidinediones and imidazolidinediones]. | the synthesis of six benzylidene thiazolidine-diones and three benzylidene imidazolidine-diones is described. in order to investigate their antimicrobial activity, they are evaluated against micro-organism such as staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus feacalis, mycobacterium smegmatis and neurospora crassa. | 1991 | 1795213 |
| cloning of a sequence of aquaspirillum magnetotacticum that complements the arod gene of escherichia coli. | a 2 kb dna fragment isolated from a cosmid library of aquaspirillum magnetotacticum strain ms-1 complements the aromatic-metabolite requirements and iron-uptake deficiencies of escherichia coli and salmonella typhimurium strains that lack a functional arod (biosynthetic dehydrodquinase) sequence. all recombinant cosmids selected for their arod complementation property carry this sequence. no dna sequence homology has, however, been detected by southern hybridization between the cloned fragment a ... | 1991 | 1766390 |
| heterologous expression of the aspergillus nidulans regulatory gene nira in fusarium oxysporum. | we have isolated strains of fusarium oxysporum carrying mutations conferring a phenotype characteristic of a loss of function in the regulatory gene of nitrate assimilation (nira in aspergillus nidulans, nit-4 in neurospora crassa). one of these nir- mutants was successfully transformed with a plasmid containing the nira gene of a. nidulans. the nitrate reductase of the transformants is still inducible, although the maximum activity is lower than in the wild type. single and multiple integration ... | 1991 | 1756977 |
| expression of the escherichia coli beta-glucuronidase gene in pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides. | the plant-pathogenic fungus pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides has been successfully transformed by using two different positive selection systems in combination with the escherichia coli gusa gene. the selectable markers used in this study were the hygromycin b phosphotransferase gene (hph) from e. coli and the gene (bml) for beta-tubulin from a benomyl-resistant mutant of neurospora crassa. a lower transformation rate was obtained with the bml system than with the hph system. conversely, cotr ... | 1991 | 1746951 |
| regulation of laccase biosynthesis in the plant-pathogenic fungus cryphonectria parasitica by double-stranded rna. | transmissible hypovirulence of the chestnut blight fungus, cryphonectria parasitica, is associated with cytoplasmic double-stranded-rna (dsrna) viruses. the fungal laccase has attracted interest because its activity is reduced in hypovirulent dsrna-containing strains. a laccase cdna clone was isolated by screening a cdna expression library with antibodies against the purified extracellular laccase. the amino acid sequence deduced from part of the cdna clone revealed high homology to other fungal ... | 1991 | 1744058 |
| over- and under-representation of short oligonucleotides in dna sequences. | strand-symmetric relative abundance functionals for di-, tri-, and tetranucleotides are introduced and applied to sequences encompassing a broad phylogenetic range to discern tendencies and anomalies in the occurrences of these short oligonucleotides within and between genomic sequences. for dinucleotides, ta is almost universally under-represented, with the exception of vertebrate mitochondrial genomes, and cg is strongly under-represented in vertebrates and in mitochondrial genomes. the tradit ... | 1992 | 1741388 |
| surface topography and molecular stoichiometry of the mitochondrial channel, vdac, in crystalline arrays. | the mitochondrial outer membrane contains a protein, called vdac, that forms large aqueous pores. in neurospora crassa outer membranes, vdac forms two-dimensional crystalline arrays whose size and frequency can be greatly augmented by lipase treatment of these membranes (c. mannella, science 224, 165, 1984). fourier filtration and surface reconstruction of freeze-dried/shadowed (45 degrees) arrays produced detailed images of two populations of crystals, whose lattices are mirror images of each o ... | 1991 | 1725124 |
| patch clamping vdac in liposomes containing whole mitochondrial membranes. | whole mitochondrial membranes isolated from neurospora crassa were reconstituted into liposomes and patch clamped. clear activity characteristic of the mitochondrial channel vdac was found, namely: open state conductance of 650 ps (in 150 mm kcl, 1 mm cacl2, 20 mm hepes, ph 7.2), voltage-dependent closure at both positive and negative potentials, change in conductance upon channel closure of about 450 ps in response to negative and positive potentials, and increased voltage dependence in the pre ... | 1991 | 1723104 |
| the induction and repair of (6-4) photoproducts in neurospora crassa. | the (6-4) photoproduct lesion found in dna after uv irradiation is repaired by germinating neurospora crassa conidia. wild-type neurospora removes 80% of the (6-4) photoproduct in approximately 20 min and maximal repair is accomplished by 30 min with approximately 89% of the original lesions removed. mutagen-sensitive neurospora mutants belonging to the established excision repair epistasis group, uvs-2, are not defective in the removal of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers. furthermore, we find thes ... | 1991 | 1719392 |
| a nuclear gene with many introns encoding ammonium-inducible chloroplastic nadp-specific glutamate dehydrogenase(s) in chlorella sorokiniana. | chlorella sorokiniana possesses ammonium-inducible, chloroplastic, nadp-specific glutamate dehydrogenase (nadp-gdh) homo- or heterohexamers composed of alpha- and/or beta-subunits which were previously shown to derive from precursor protein(s) of identical size. from the present studies, data are consistent with these two subunits being encoded by a single nuclear gene. the nadp-gdh gene is greater than 7 kb in length due to the presence of at least 21 introns, an unusually large number for a eu ... | 1991 | 1718478 |
| insulin-induced stimulation of protein phosphorylation in neurospora crassa cells. | 1) insulin stimulated the phosphorylation of at least 14 discrete proteins in neurospora crassa cells. specific proteins were phosphorylated at serine, threonine, and tyrosine residues, as determined by phosphoamino acid analysis of discrete spots on two-dimensional gels. 2) insulin stimulated the phosphorylation by [gamma-32p]atp of at least six discrete proteins in solubilized n. crassa membrane preparations at serine and tyrosine residues. 3) a phosphotyrosine-containing protein of 38 kda, pi ... | 1991 | 1717334 |
| core i protein of bovine ubiquinol-cytochrome-c reductase; an additional member of the mitochondrial-protein-processing family. cloning of bovine core i and core ii cdnas and primary structure of the proteins. | core i and core ii proteins are the largest nuclear-encoded subunits of the mitochondrial ubiquinol-cytochrome-c reductase (bc1 complex) lacking redox prosthetic groups. cdna clones of the two bovine core proteins have been isolated by the screening of lambda zap cdna libraries either with an oligonucleotide probe based on the sequence of an internal peptide or with a polymerase-chain-reaction-amplified fragment. the core i precursor protein consists of 362 amino acids with a 34-amino-acid prese ... | 1991 | 1712295 |
| gtp is required for the integration of a fragment of the neurospora crassa h(+)-atpase into homologous microsomal vesicles. | the integration of a fragment of the neurospora crassa plasma membrane h(+)-atpase was examined to determine if insertion of the fragment into homologous microsomal vesicles is obligatorily dependent on a nucleoside triphosphate. rna transcripts that encoded the amino terminal 344 amino acids of the neurospora crassa plasma membrane h(+)-atpase(pma(344)+) were translated in a n. crassa in vitro system. the pma(344)+ integrated post-translationally into homologous microsomal vesicles independent ... | 1991 | 1711898 |
| incipient mitochondrial evolution in yeasts. ii. the complete sequence of the gene coding for cytochrome b in saccharomyces douglasii reveals the presence of both new and conserved introns and discloses major differences in the fixation of mutations in evolution. | we have determined the complete sequence of the mitochondrial gene coding for cytochrome b in saccharomyces douglasii. the gene is 6310 base-pairs long and is interrupted by four introns. the first one (1311 base-pairs) belongs to the group id of secondary structure, contains a fragment open reading frame with a characteristic giy ... yig motif, is absent from saccharomyces cerevisiae and is inserted in the same site in which introns 1 and 2 are inserted in neurospora crassa and podospora anseri ... | 1991 | 1708831 |
| localization of actin and characterization of its isoforms in the hyphae of neurospora crassa. | the actin of neurospora crassa wild type strain st. lawrence has been purified, characterized and localized. a fungal 43 kda protein was isolated by affinity chromatography on dnase i-sepharose. this protein was identified as actin on immunoblots when an anti-actin monoclonal antibody raised against chicken gizzards was used as a probe. after two-dimensional gel electrophoresis three actin isoforms were detected. the distribution of actin in hyphae was examined by fitc-phalloidin staining of for ... | 1991 | 1706289 |
| voltage gating of the mitochondrial outer membrane channel vdac is regulated by a very conserved protein. | soluble protein preparations obtained from the mitochondrial fractions of three very different organisms, neurospora crassa, rat, and potato, were discovered to greatly enhance the voltage sensitivity of the mitochondrial outer membrane channel, vdac. the active ingredient, referred to as the vdac modulator, increased the rate of voltage-dependent channel closure by approximately 10-fold. the modulator from one species increased the closing rate of vdac channels from all three species. the activ ... | 1991 | 1705100 |
| analysis of the altered mrna stability (ams) gene from escherichia coli. nucleotide sequence, transcriptional analysis, and homology of its product to mrp3, a mitochondrial ribosomal protein from neurospora crassa. | the product of the altered mrna stability (ams) gene of escherichia coli is involved in decay of mrna. the complete nucleotide sequence of a 4-kilobase bamhi restriction fragment containing the ams coding sequence was determined. transcription of the ams gene was analyzed by high resolution s1 mapping. a promoter was found with a homology score of 58% 361 nucleotides upstream from the start codon of ams. the ams structural gene consists of an open reading frame of 2,445 nucleotides. the protein ... | 1991 | 1704367 |
| nucleotide sequence of the exons of the large subunit rrna of neurospora crassa mitochondria. | 1990 | 1701879 | |
| the apocytochrome b gene of chlamydomonas smithii contains a mobile intron related to both saccharomyces and neurospora introns. | the mitochondrial dna of the two interfertile algal species chlamydomonas smithii and chlamydomonas reinhardtii are co-linear with the exception of ca. 1 kb insertion (the alpha insert) present in c. smithii dna only. in vegetative diploids resulting from interspecific crosses, mitochondrial genomes are transmitted biparentally except for the alpha insert which is transmitted to all c. reinhardtii molecules in a manner reminiscent of the intron-mediated conversion event that occurs at the omega ... | 1990 | 1701210 |
| optimized vectors and selection for transformation of neurospora crassa and aspergillus nidulans to bleomycin and phleomycin resistance. | to provide a dominant selectable marker for transformation of neurospora crassa strains lacking specific auxotrophic mutations, we have engineered the bleomycin (bm) resistance-encoding gene (ble) from the bacterial transposon tn5 for expression in n. crassa. the coding region of the ble gene was fused to the promoter and terminator regions of the n. crassa am gene. in some vectors, multiple cloning sites were placed flanking the ble gene to provide a versatile ble cassette. when introduced into ... | 1990 | 1699844 |
| isolation and sequence of an fk506-binding protein from n. crassa which catalyses protein folding. | slow protein-folding reactions are accelerated by a prolyl cis/trans isomerase isolated from porcine kidney which is identical to cyclophilin, a protein that is probably the cellular receptor for the immunosuppressant cyclosporin a. catalysis probably involves the isomerization of prolyl peptide bonds in the folding protein chains. cyclosporin a inhibits folding catalysis by cyclophilin. here we report the isolation, cloning, sequencing and expression of another protein with prolyl isomerase act ... | 1990 | 1696687 |
| comparative studies of the quinic acid (qa) cluster in several neurospora species with special emphasis on the qa-x-qa-2 intergenic region. | the organization of the quinic acid (qa) genes in neurospora crassa has been compared to that in several other neurospora species. this gene cluster was found to be highly conserved in all species examined. however, there are numberous restriction fragment length polymorphisms that distinguish the heterothallic and homothallic species. catabolic dehydroquinase assays indicated that qa-2 gene expression in the homothallic species is subject to induction by quinic acid, as is the case in n. crassa ... | 1991 | 1685010 |
| sequence and expression of gln3, a positive nitrogen regulatory gene of saccharomyces cerevisiae encoding a protein with a putative zinc finger dna-binding domain. | the gln3 gene of saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for the activation of transcription of a number of genes in response to the replacement of glutamine by glutamate as source of nitrogen. we cloned the gln3 gene and constructed null alleles by gene disruption. gln3 is not essential for growth, but increased copies of gln3 lead to a drastic decrease in growth rate. the complete nucleotide sequence of the gln3 gene was determined, revealing one open reading frame encoding a polypeptide of 730 a ... | 1991 | 1682800 |
| isolation and expression of the acetate-inducible isocitrate lyase gene (acu-3) from neurospora crassa: evidence for a second constitutive isozyme. | heterologous hybridisation of the aspergillus nidulans structural gene for isocitrate lyase (acud) to a lambda genomic library of neurospora crassa identified a recombinant phage containing the hybridising sequence on an internal 9 kb ecori fragment. a restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) enabled the fragment to be assigned to linkage group v (lg v), the location of the acetate-inducible isocitrate lyase, acu-3 of neurospora. functional ectopic complementation by co-transformation of ... | 1991 | 1681413 |
| genomic analysis of a virulent and a less virulent strain of the entomopathogenic fungus beauveria bassiana, using restriction fragment length polymorphisms. | the genomic dna of two strains of the entomopathogenic fungus beauveria bassiana, strain gk2016, a "wild type" (virulent), and strain gk2051, a less virulent mutant to grasshoppers, was digested with 12 restriction endonucleases. gel electrophoresis conditions were established to show restriction fragment length patterns visually in the digested dna stained with ethidium bromide. the less virulent mutant was generated by ultraviolet illumination of conidiospores at a 95% lethal dose. both strain ... | 1991 | 1680543 |
| isolation and characterization of the adenylate cyclase structural gene of neurospora crassa. | a single gene (nac) encoding an adenylate cyclase was cloned from the genomic dna library of neurospora crassa, using the dna fragment encoding the catalytic domain of adenylate cyclase of saccharomyces cerevisiae as a probe. the open reading frame of this gene (6900 base pairs) was interrupted three time by introns. the protein encoded consists of 2300 amino acids and has adenylate cyclase activity. n. crassa adenylate cyclase has a high degree of homology with the catalytic domains of yeast an ... | 1991 | 1680356 |
| in vitro inhibition of stable 1,3-beta-d-glucan synthase activity from neurospora crassa. | glucan synthase activity of neurospora crassa was isolated by treatment of protoplast lysates with 0.1% 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)-dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate and 0.5% octylglucoside in 25 mm 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid buffer, ph 7.4, containing 5 mm edta, 1 mm phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride, 200 mm inorganic phosphate, 10 microm gtp, 1 mm dtt, 10 mm sodium fluoride, and 600 mm glycerol. resulting activity was partially purified by sucrose gradient density sedimentation ... | 1991 | 1669437 |