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Lucena-Agell D, Hervás-Aguilar A, Múnera-Huertas T, Pougovkina O, Rudnicka J, Galindo A, Tilburn J, Arst HN, Peñalva MA. Mutational analysis of the Aspergillus ambient pH receptor PalH underscores its potential as a target for antifungal compounds. Mol Microbiol 2016; 101:982-1002. [PMID: 27279148 PMCID: PMC5026065 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The pal/RIM ambient pH signalling pathway is crucial for the ability of pathogenic fungi to infect hosts. The Aspergillus nidulans 7‐TMD receptor PalH senses alkaline pH, subsequently facilitating ubiquitination of the arrestin PalF. Ubiquitinated PalF triggers downstream signalling events. The mechanism(s) by which PalH transduces the alkaline pH signal to PalF is poorly understood. We show that PalH is phosphorylated in a signal dependent manner, resembling mammalian GPCRs, although PalH phosphorylation, in contrast to mammalian GPCRs, is arrestin dependent. A genetic screen revealed that an ambient‐exposed region comprising the extracellular loop connecting TM4‐TM5 and ambient‐proximal residues within TM5 is required for signalling. In contrast, substitution by alanines of four aromatic residues within TM6 and TM7 results in a weak ‘constitutive’ activation of the pathway. Our data support the hypothesis that PalH mechanistically resembles mammalian GPCRs that signal via arrestins, such that the relative positions of individual helices within the heptahelical bundle determines the Pro316‐dependent transition between inactive and active PalH conformations, governed by an ambient‐exposed region including critical Tyr259 that potentially represents an agonist binding site. These findings open the possibility of screening for agonist compounds stabilizing the inactive conformation of PalH, which might act as antifungal drugs against ascomycetes.
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- Daniel Lucena-Agell
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Section of Microbiology, Imperial College London, Flowers Building, Armstrong Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Section of Microbiology, Imperial College London, Flowers Building, Armstrong Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Section of Microbiology, Imperial College London, Flowers Building, Armstrong Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, Madrid, 28040, Spain.,Section of Microbiology, Imperial College London, Flowers Building, Armstrong Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, Madrid, 28040, Spain.
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Todd RB, Davis MA, Hynes MJ. Genetic manipulation of Aspergillus nidulans: heterokaryons and diploids for dominance, complementation and haploidization analyses. Nat Protoc 2007; 2:822-30. [PMID: 17446882 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The haploid microbial eukaryote Aspergillus nidulans is a powerful genetic system, which allows analysis of a broad range of biological phenomena. In addition to conventional analysis of meiotic progeny in a single generation, parasexual analysis affords a rapid and convenient method for genetic analysis. We describe the construction of A. nidulans heterokaryons and diploids for use in genetic analysis to determine dominance and conduct complementation tests. We also describe the rapid mapping of mutations to chromosomes by haploidization of diploids carrying marked chromosomes. Balanced heterokaryons may be established within 10 days and diploids may be constructed in 2-3 weeks. Dominance tests and complementation tests using balanced heterokaryons or diploids may be completed in 2-3 days. Haploidization analysis of heterozygous diploids can be achieved within 10 days. These protocols should be adaptable for use in related Aspergilli and Penicillia, which lack a known meiotic cycle.
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- Richard B Todd
- Department of Genetics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
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Descheneau AT, Cleary IA, Nargang FE. Genetic evidence for a regulatory pathway controlling alternative oxidase production in Neurospora crassa. Genetics 2005; 169:123-35. [PMID: 15466423 PMCID: PMC1448880 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.034017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2004] [Accepted: 09/22/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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When the cytochrome-mediated mitochondrial electron transport chain of Neurospora crassa is disrupted, an alternative oxidase encoded by the nuclear aod-1 gene is induced. The alternative oxidase donates electrons directly to oxygen from the ubiquininol pool and is insensitive to chemicals such as antimycin A and KCN that affect the standard electron transport chain. To facilitate isolation of mutants affecting regulation of aod-1, a reporter system containing the region upstream of the aod-1 coding sequence fused to the coding sequence of the N. crassa tyrosinase gene (T) was transformed into a strain carrying a null allele of the endogenous T gene. In the resulting reporter strain, growth in the presence of chloramphenicol, an inhibitor of mitochondrial translation whose action decreases the level of mitochondrial translation products resulting in impaired cytochrome-mediated respiration, caused induction of both alternative oxidase and tyrosinase. Conidia from the reporter strain were mutagenized, plated on medium containing chloramphenicol, and colonies that did not express tyrosinase were identified as potential regulatory mutants. After further characterization, 15 strains were found that were unable to induce both the reporter and the alternative oxidase. Complementation analysis revealed that four novel loci involved in aod-1 regulation had been isolated. The discovery that several genes are required for regulation of aod-1 suggests the existence of a complex pathway for signaling from the mitochondria to the nucleus and/or for expression of the gene.
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- Andrea T Descheneau
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
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Li Destri Nicosia MG, Brocard-Masson C, Demais S, Hua Van A, Daboussi MJ, Scazzocchio C. Heterologous transposition in Aspergillus nidulans. Mol Microbiol 2004. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2001.02323.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Coenen A, Croft JH, Slakhorst M, Debets F, Hoekstra R. Mitochondrial inheritance in Aspergillus nidulans. Genet Res (Camb) 1996; 67:93-100. [PMID: 8801189 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300033553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Mitochondrial chloramphenicol and oligomycin resistance mutations were used to investigate mitochondrial inheritance in A. nidulans. Mitochondrial RFLPs could not be used to distinguish between paternal and maternal mitochondria because none were detected in the 54 isolates investigated. Several thousand ascospores from each of 111 hybrid cleistothecia from 21 different crosses between 7 heterokaryon incompatible isolates were tested for biparental inheritance. All mitochondrial inheritance was strictly uniparental. Not one instance of paternal inheritance of mitochondria was observed. The implications of our results for the theory that uniparental inheritance evolved to avoid cytoplasmic conflict are discussed. Possible explanations for the maintenance of strict uniparental inheritance of mitochondria in an inbreeding homothallic organism are suggested. The chloramphenicol resistance marker was inherited preferentially to the oligomycin resistance marker probably due to the inhibited energy production of mitochondria with the oligomycin resistance mutation. The maternal parent was determined for 93 hybrid cleistothecia from 17 crosses between 7 different strains. Contrary to previous reports A. nidulans strains functioned as both maternal and paternal parent in most crosses.
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- A Coenen
- Department of Genetics, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Alex Coenen@
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Arst HN. Localisation of several chromosome I genes of Aspergillus nidulans: implications for mitotic recombination. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1988; 213:545-7. [PMID: 3054488 DOI: 10.1007/bf00339629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Another laboratory previously reported that the vast majority of mitotic recombinants in chromosome I disomics of Aspergillus nidulans arise from double exchange events involving the centromeric region and a far distal, possibly telomeric, region. This conclusion was based on the assumption that the camC gene is located in a position far distal to the centromere on the left arm of chromosome I. As a left arm location for camC distal to the centromere was possibly in conflict with mapping data obtained in the context of an unrelated project, camC was partially mapped along with three other previously unlocated chromosome I genes, davA, ornD and uapA. The data presented here indicate that camC is located in a position far distal to the centromere but on the right arm of chromosome I, a conclusion also supported by the previous data. The positioning of uapA and camC in far distal locations on the right arm of chromosome I indicates the existence of a vast, otherwise nearly unmapped region on this chromosome arm.
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- H N Arst
- Department of Bacteriology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, UK
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Wolf K, Del Giudice L. The variable mitochondrial genome of ascomycetes: organization, mutational alterations, and expression. ADVANCES IN GENETICS 1988; 25:185-308. [PMID: 3057820 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2660(08)60460-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- K Wolf
- Institut für Genetik und Mikrobiologie, Universität München, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany
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Sor F, Fukuhara H. Erythromycin and spiramycin resistance mutations of yeast mitochondria: nature of the rib2 locus in the large ribosomal RNA gene. Nucleic Acids Res 1984; 12:8313-8. [PMID: 6095195 PMCID: PMC320360 DOI: 10.1093/nar/12.22.8313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Two linked genetic loci, rib 2 and rib 3, of yeast mitochondrial genome are the sites of mutations that confer resistance to erythromycin and/or spiramycin. We have examined two mutations at the rib 2 locus. Mutation ER354 was found at the nucleotide position 3993 of the large ribosomal RNA gene; it corresponded to a C to G transversion leading to a double resistance to erythromycin and spiramycin. Mutation SR551 was found also at the same position, but the C was replaced by a T, conferring resistance to spiramycin only. Rib 2 and rib 3 are 836 base pairs apart on the gene sequence, but are very close to each other in the secondary structure of ribosomal RNA.
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Extranuclear chloramphenicol resistance mutations in the basidiomyceteSistotrema brinkmannii. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/0147-5975(84)90008-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Smith TM, Saunders G, Stacey LM, Holt G. Restriction endonuclease map of mitochondrial DNA from Penicillium chrysogenum. J Biotechnol 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1656(84)90071-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Baptista-Ferreira JLC, Economou A, Casselton LA. Mitochondrial genetics of Coprinus: Recombination of mitochondrial genomes. Curr Genet 1983; 7:405-7. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00445883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/1983] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Sor F, Fukuhara H. Identification of two erythromycin resistance mutations in the mitochondrial gene coding for the large ribosomal RNA in yeast. Nucleic Acids Res 1982; 10:6571-7. [PMID: 6757866 PMCID: PMC326949 DOI: 10.1093/nar/10.21.6571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Two independent erythromycin resistance mutations, ER514 and ER221, have been identified in the mitochondrial gene coding for the 21S ribosomal RNA. The two mutations were found to be identical, corresponding to a A to G transition at the nucleotide position 1951 of the ribosomal RNA gene. In the secondary structure model of the ribosomal RNA, the ER resistance site is found at the proximity of the chloramphenicol resistance sites located about 500 bases downstream.
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High frequency transfer of species specific mitochondrial DNA sequences between members of the aspergillaceae. Curr Genet 1981; 3:221-8. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00429824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/1981] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Macino G, Scazzocchio C, Waring RB, Berks MM, Davies RW. Conservation and rearrangement of mitochondrial structural gene sequences. Nature 1980; 288:404-6. [PMID: 6253835 DOI: 10.1038/288404a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Mitochondria contain the simplest DNA molecules that are present in eukaryotes. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is easily purified, and is an important model system for studying eukaryote gene structure and basic molecular processes. The protein sequences of mitochondrial gene products have been shown to be conserved from yeast to man, and there are definite similarities at the DNA sequence level. In contrast, the overall organization of the mitochondrial genome is drastically different in these organisms. To understand this, we need to extend work on mtDNA to a wider range of species. We have chosen to study the mtDNA of Aspergillus nidulans because a particularly comprehensive analysis of this system can be achieved using genetics as well as biochemistry, and like most eukaryotes it is an obligate aerobe, whereas Saccharomyces cerevisiae is not. We have investigated whether defined pieces of particular yeast mitochondrial genes show enough homology to Aspergillus mtDNA fragments to enable the corresponding Aspergillus genes to be located on the physical map. The results reported here show that this is the case for all five genes tested, and present the first data on the physical organization of the structural genes in the mitochondrial genome of A. nidulans.
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Lazarus CM, Turner G. Extranuclear recombination in Aspergillus nidulans: closely-linked multiple chloramphenicol- and oligomycin-resistance loci. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1977; 156:303-11. [PMID: 340908 DOI: 10.1007/bf00267186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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A nuclear, chloramphenicol-sensitive mutant cas-1 has been isolated which is cross sensitive to a number of drugs, including oligomycin and cycloheximide. Approximately one-third of the chloramphenicol-resistant mutants isolated from mutagenized conidia of this strain were found to be extranuclear, and exhibited a variety of phenotypes. One of these mutants, designated (camB51), was slow growing on drug-free medium and recombined at low frequency with the previously described mutant (camA112) (Gunatilleke et al., 1975). The majority of extranuclear oligomycin-resistant mutants isolated from cas-1 were indistinguishable from (oliA1) (Rowlands and Turner, 1973). Two mutants, (oliB322) and (oliB332), with similar but not identical phenotypes to (oli A1), recombined with the latter at low frequency but not with each other, thus representing a new class of extranuclear mutants.
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Rowlands RT, Turner G. Nuclear-extranuclear interactions affecting oligomycin resistance in Aspergillus nidulans. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1977; 154:311-8. [PMID: 144864 DOI: 10.1007/bf00571288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The extranuclear mitochondrial oligomycin-resistant mutation of Aspergillus nidulans, (oliA1), was transferred asexually into four nuclear oligomycin-resistant strains of different phenotypes. In all four cases, the possession of the nuclear plus extranuclear mutation led to an increase in the in vivo level of oligomycin resistance. In two cases, the altered cytochrome spectrum and impaired growth ability determined by (oliA1) were suppressed by the nuclear mutations. In the third case, the in vitro oligomycin resistance of the double mutant ATPase was dramatically increased above that of either of the component single mutant strains, indicating a synergystic interaction between the nuclear and extranuclear gene products. In the fourth case, the double mutant became cold-sensitive. A new extranuclear mitochondrial oligomycin-resistant mutation (oliB332) is described. This mutant is phenotypically similar to, though not identical with, (oliA1) but is separable by recombination. A range of nuclear oligomycin-resistant mutants have been mapped. Despite presenting five distinctly different phenotypes, they all map at the same locus.
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Rowlands RT, Turner G. Maternal inheritance of extranuclear mitochondrial markers in Aspergillus nidulans. Genet Res (Camb) 1976; 28:281-90. [PMID: 800001 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300016979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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SUMMARYMaternal inheritance of extranuclear mitochondrial genes has been demonstrated inAspergillus nidulansusing the ‘blue’ ascospore colour mutants in combination with heterokaryon incompatible strains. It appears that heterokaryosis is not a prerequisite of sexual outcrossing, and that recombination of extranuclear mitochondrial markers does not occur in the sexual stage of the cell cycle.
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Mason JR, Turner G. Transmission and recombination of extranuclear genes during sexual crosses in Aspergillus nidulans. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1975; 143:93-9. [PMID: 765748 DOI: 10.1007/bf00269425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Three extranuclear mitochondrial mutations in Aspergillus nidulans, (oliA1), (camA1) and (cs67), were used as markers in sexual crosses to provide information on the frequencies of transmission and recombination of the mitochondrial genome. Any individual perithecium contained ascospores of only one extranuclear genotype. Using mono-, bi- and trifactorial crosses it was found that all three markers could be recovered from the progeny, although the transmission frequencies were different for each marker. This bias was present irrespective of the nuclear background or the presence of selective agents in the medium on which the cross was established. These findings enable a series of "transmission strength" to be established, as shown below:-- (camA1) greater than (cs67, camA1) greater than (+) = (cs67) greater than (oliA1, cs67) greater than (oliA1) greater than (oliA1, camA1). However, the numbers of recombinants isolated were so variable as to make this form of analysis unsuitable for mapping the mitochondrial genome.
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Gunatilleke IA, Arst HN, Scazzocchio C. Three genes determine the carboxin sensitivity of mitochondrial succinate oxidation in aspergillus nidulans. Genet Res (Camb) 1975; 26:297-305. [PMID: 178574 DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300016098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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SUMMARYPartially dominant mutations to carboxin resistance occur in three, freely recombining, nuclear genes inAspergillus nidulans. Mutations at all three loci reduce carboxin inhibition of succinate dehydrogenase (EC 1.3.99.1), succinate-cytochromecreductase (EC 1.3.99.1) and succinate oxidase (EC 1.3.99.1) in mitochondrial preparations. It is therefore probable that the ability of carboxin to prevent growth ofA. nidulansis a direct consequence of its ability to prevent succinate oxidation.
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Rowlands RT, Turner G. Three-marker extranuclear mitochondrial crosses in Aspergillus nidulans. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1975; 141:69-79. [PMID: 765725 DOI: 10.1007/bf00332379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Two- and three-point extranuclear crosses have been carried out via heterokaryons involving the three extranuclear mitochondrial markers of Aspergillus nidulans: (oliA1), (cs67) and (camA112). All three markers appear to be located on a single functional mitochondrial genome. Recombination between all three pairs of extranuclear markers appears to be equally frequent, suggesting a lack of genetic linkage. An important feature of these results is the variable and often marked non-equality of frequency of reciprocal classes of recombinants.
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Gunatilleke IA, Scazzocchio C, Arst HN. Cytoplasmic and nuclear mutations to chloramphenicol resistance in Aspergillus nidulans. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1975; 137:269-76. [PMID: 1102919 DOI: 10.1007/bf00333022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Two chloramphenicol resistance mutations out of 123 tested in Aspergillus nidulans are inherited extranuclearly as judged by transmissibility in heterokaryons, lack of segregation at meiosis, and independent segregation from all of the eight nuclear linkage groups. They do not recombine with each other. However, experiments in collaboration with G. Turner and R.T. Rowlands show that they do recombine with cytoplasmic mutations to oligomycin resistance (Rowlands and Turner, 1973) and cold-sensitivity (Waldron and Roberts, 1973). These cytoplasmic chloramphenicol resistance mutations are stable and do not affect growth or morphology on antibiotic-free media. Nuclear mutations to chloramphenicol resistance map at a minimum of three loci. At one of these loci, most, but not all, mutations lead pleiotropically to cycloheximide hypersensitivity, and most of these, but not all, also confer pleiotropic hypersensitivity to salicylhydroxamic acid.
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