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Virag A, Griffiths AJF. A mutation in the Neurospora crassa actin gene results in multiple defects in tip growth and branching. Fungal Genet Biol 2004; 41:213-25. [PMID: 14732267 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2003.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Actin has a pivotal function in hyphal morphogenesis in filamentous fungi, but it is not certain whether its function is equivalent to that of a morphogen, or if it is simply part of a mechanism that executes orders given by another regulatory entity. To address this question we selected for cytochalasin A resistance and isolated act1, the first actin mutant in Neurospora crassa. This mutant branches apically and shows an altered distribution of actin at the tip. Based on the properties of this mutant, we propose a model of tip growth and branching in which actin effects tip growth by regulating the rate of vesicle flow from proximal to distal regions of a hypha, thereby controlling the tip-high gradient of cytoplasmic calcium. The actin-controlled calcium gradient at the tip is necessary for maintenance of tip growth as well as the dominance of one polarized site at the hyphal tip. The phenotype of act1 indicates that actin controls the balance between lateral and apical branching.
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- Aleksandra Virag
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
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Heat-sensitive mutant strain of Neurospora crassa, 4M(t), conditionally defective in 25S ribosomal ribonucleic acid production. Mol Cell Biol 1988. [PMID: 6242828 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.1.3.199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A heat-sensitive mutant strain of Neurospora crassa, 4M(t), was studied in an attempt to define its molecular lesion. The mutant strain is inhibited in conidial germination and mycelial extension at the nonpermissive temperature (37 degrees C). Macromolecular synthesis studies showed that both ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein syntheses are inhibited when 4-h cultures are shifted from 20 to 37 degrees C. Density gradient analysis of ribosomal subunits made at 37 degrees C indicated that strain 4M(t) is deficient in the accumulation of 60S ribosomal subunits in that the ratio of 60S/37S subunits was 0.29:1 compared with 1.6:1 for the parental strain. This phenotype was shown to be the result of a slow rate of processing of, and a deficiency in the amount of, the immediate precursor to 25S ribosomal RNA (the large RNA of the 60S subunit) in the sequence of events constituting the production of mature ribosomal RNAs from the primary transcript of the ribosomal deoxyribonucleic acid, the precursor ribosomal RNA molecule. Analysis of polysomes suggested that the heat-sensitive gene product might function in both the assembly and the function of the 60S ribosomal subunit, since there was a smaller proportion of newly made 60S subunits synthesized at 37 degrees C in the polysome region of the gradients than in the monosome-plus-subunit region. The ribosomal RNA processing defect is apparently responsible for the observed defects in germination and macromolecular synthesis at 37 degrees C, but the precise molecular lesion is not known. On the basis of these results, the heat-sensitive mutant allele in the 4M(t) strain is considered to define the rip1 (ribosome production) gene locus.
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Russell PJ, Rodland KD, Rachlin EM, McCloskey JA. Differential DNA methylation during the vegetative life cycle of Neurospora crassa. J Bacteriol 1987; 169:2902-5. [PMID: 2953709 PMCID: PMC212211 DOI: 10.1128/jb.169.6.2902-2905.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Isotope dilution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of genomic DNAs isolated from the different growth phases of Neurospora crassa revealed significant differences in the amounts of 5-methylcytosine; the mol % of 5-methylcytosine was 0.36 in conidia (asexual spores), 0.40 in conidial germlings cultured for 3 h, 0.24 in mycelial cells that had grown exponentially for 6 and 12 h, and 0.40 in stationary-phase mycelial cells. These results indicate an approximate inverse correlation between the level of C methylation in the DNA and the presumed level of developmentally related transcriptional activity.
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Russell PJ, Loo MW, Schricker NS. Growth and macromolecular synthesis phenotypes of a heat-sensitive mutant strain, rip-1, of Neurospora crassa. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1985; 200:247-51. [PMID: 2412091 DOI: 10.1007/bf00425431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A heat-sensitive mutant of Neurospora crassa, strain 4M(t), was isolated using ultraviolet-light mutagenesis followed by the inositol-less death enrichment technique. The heat-sensitivity is the result of a single gene mutation which maps to the distal end of the right arm of linkage group II. The mutation defines the rip-1 gene locus. Both conidial germination and mycelial extension are inhibited in the mutant at 35 degrees C and above (the nonpermissive temperature) but prolonged incubation at that temperature is not lethal to either cell type. Analysis of the lateral mycelial growth rates of wild type and of the rip-1 mutant at a variety of temperatures between 10 and 40 degrees C indicated that the maximal growth rate occurs at 35 degrees C in the wild type, and at 25 degrees C in the rip-1 strain. The rip-1 mutant grows 239-times slower at 35 degrees C than at 25 degrees C, whereas the wild type grows 1.4-times faster. Temperature shift-up experiments showed that even 3 h at 20 degrees C is not sufficient to allow germination at 37 degrees C, thereby showing that the mutant cannot accumulate enough heat-sensitive product at the permissive temperature to contribute to germination at 37 degrees C. The reciprocal temperature shift-down experiments showed that the molecular events at 37 degrees C may be qualitatively useful for germination after shifting to 20 degrees C.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Russell PJ, Wagner S, Rodland KD, Feinbaum RL, Russell JP, Bret-Harte MS, Free SJ, Metzenberg RL. Organization of the ribosomal ribonucleic acid genes in various wild-type strains and wild-collected strains of Neurospora. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1984; 196:275-82. [PMID: 6092870 DOI: 10.1007/bf00328060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The organization of the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeat unit in the standard wild-type strain of Neurospora crassa, 74-OR23-1A, and in 30 other wild-type strains and wild-collected strains of N. crassa, . tetrasperma, N. sitophila, N. intermedia, and N. discreta isolated from nature, was investigated by restriction enzyme digestion of genomic DNA, and probing of the Southern-blotted DNA fragments with specific cloned pieces of the rDNA unit from 74-OR23-1A. The size of the rDNA unit in 74-OR23-1A was shown to be 9.20 kilobase pairs (kb) from blotting data, and the average for all strains was 9.11 + 0.21 kb; standard error = 0.038; coefficient of variation (C.V.) = 2.34%. These data indicate that the rDNA repeat unit size has been highly conserved among the Neurospora strains investigated. However, while all strains have a conserved HindIII site near the 5' end of the 25 S rDNA coding sequence, a polymorphism in the number and/or position of HindIII sites in the nontranscribed spacer region was found between strains. The 74-OR23-1A strain has two HindIII sites in the spacer, while others have from 0 to at least 3. This restriction site polymorphism is strain-specific and not species-specific. It was confirmed for some strains by restriction analysis of clones containing most of the rDNA repeat unit. The current restriction map of the 74-OR23-1A rDNA repeat unit is presented.
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Templeton D, Eckhart W. Characterization of viable mutants of polyomavirus cold sensitive for maintenance of cell transformation. J Virol 1984; 49:799-805. [PMID: 6321764 PMCID: PMC255540 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.49.3.799-805.1984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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We mutagenized a cloned fragment of polyoma DNA encoding portions of the middle size (MT) and large T antigens. We regenerated infectious viral genomes containing the mutagenized DNA and tested their transforming ability at 32 and 39 degrees C. We isolated three nontransforming mutants and two mutants which were cold sensitive for the maintenance of cell transformation. The nontransforming mutants contained amber termination codons in the reading frame for the MT antigen. They synthesized truncated MT antigens which lacked MT-associated protein kinase activity. The cold-sensitive mutants synthesized MT antigens indistinguishable from wild type with regard to size, stability at 32 and 39 degrees C, intracellular location, and associated protein kinase activity. One of the mutants was shown by nucleotide sequence analysis to contain a single amino acid change in the MT antigen, located two residues upstream from the C-terminal hydrophobic region, and no changes in the large T antigen. The other mutant contained two amino acid changes in the MT antigen and two amino acid changes in the large T antigen.
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Fischer-Fantuzzi L, Vesco C. Cold-sensitive growth of simian virus 40 in semipermissive variants of CV1 cells. J Virol 1982; 43:791-9. [PMID: 6292461 PMCID: PMC256189 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.43.3.791-799.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Two cell clones were isolated from the simian line CV1, permissive for simian virus 40 (SV40), by selection at low temperature with the tsA239 mutant of SV40. These clones exhibited cold-sensitive semipermissivity to both SV40 virions and SV40 DNA. On the basis of virus yields, their resistance to viral DNA was increased approximately 15 times over that of CV1 cells when the incubation temperature was lowered from 38.5 to 33.5 degrees C. A further 30- to 40-fold resistance increase was exhibited at both temperatures upon infection with SV40 virions. Partial characterization of these clones indicated that the cold sensitivity affected an early function in viral growth, between viral uncoating and the appearance of T-antigen positivity, with a burst-size decrease in all cells at the restricted temperature. This conditional defect appeared to be superimposed upon a temperature-independent uncoating defect, presumably carried in a CV1 subpopulation from which the two clones were ultimately selected.
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Talbot KJ, Russell PJ. Nuclear buoyant density determination and the purification and characterization of wild-type neurospora nuclei using percoll density gradients. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1982; 70:704-8. [PMID: 16662561 PMCID: PMC1065756 DOI: 10.1104/pp.70.3.704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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A procedure has been developed using Percoll density gradients for the isolation and purification of nuclei from germinated conidia of wild-type Neurospora crassa St. Lawrence strain 74A. Crude nuclei were purified isopycnically in gradients of Percoll, which is silica coated with polyvinylpyrrolidone. A DNA:RNA:protein ratio of 1:3.5:6.5 was found in purified nuclei. Cytoplasmic contamination was found to be negligible in the nuclear preparations, as determined by electron microscopy and by following a radioactively-labeled ribosome tag during the isolation procedure. A small amount of endogenous ribonuclease activity was detected in the crude nuclear preparations, but not in suspensions of nuclei purified in the Percoll gradients. Ribosomal RNA was extracted from the nuclei in good yields, and electrophoretic analysis indicated the presence of precursor rRNA molecules, as well as the mature 17S and 25S rRNA species. Using the Percoll gradient system, the buoyant density of purified Neurospora nuclei was determined to be 1.08 grams per milliliter based on refractive index measurements.
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- K J Talbot
- Biology Department, Reed College, Portland, Oregon 97202
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Mattern DL, Forman LR, Brody S. Circadian rhythms in Neurospora crassa: a mutation affecting temperature compensation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1982; 79:825-9. [PMID: 6461008 PMCID: PMC345845 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.79.3.825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The circadian rhythm of conidiation (spore formation) in Neurospora crassa is known to be temperature compensated, that is, the period is only slightly affected by the incubation temperature. Thus, the Q10 (the relative rate enhancement corresponding to a 10 degrees C rise in temperature) of the rhythm of the bd csp strain from 14 to 30 degrees C was 1.1, whereas the Q10 of the uncompensated growth rate in the same interval was 2.4. A mutation at the cel locus resulted in loss of the temperature-compensation property in cultures grown below 22 degrees C. The Q10 of the rhythm below 22 degrees C was 2.2, and periods of about 40 hr were observed. In contrast, the Q10 of the rhythm above 22 degrees C was 1.1, with circadian periods of 18-21 hr. Thus, cel displayed a threshold temperature or "break point" for the temperature compensation of its rhythm. Supplementation of cel strains, which require fatty acids, with unsaturated or short-chain fatty acids raised the threshold temperature to 26 degrees C, whereas supplementation with long-chain saturated fatty acids lowered it to 18 degrees C. These data suggest a role for fatty acids, as liquid components or as cellular metabolites, in the mechanism of temperature compensation.
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Cold-sensitive mutation in Neurospora crassa affecting the production of 17S ribosomal RNA from ribosomal precursor RNA. Curr Genet 1981; 4:1-5. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00376778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/1981] [Revised: 04/07/1981] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Loo MW, Schricker NS, Russell PJ. Heat-sensitive mutant strain of Neurospora crassa, 4M(t), conditionally defective in 25S ribosomal ribonucleic acid production. Mol Cell Biol 1981; 1:199-207. [PMID: 6242828 PMCID: PMC369663 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.1.3.199-207.1981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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A heat-sensitive mutant strain of Neurospora crassa, 4M(t), was studied in an attempt to define its molecular lesion. The mutant strain is inhibited in conidial germination and mycelial extension at the nonpermissive temperature (37 degrees C). Macromolecular synthesis studies showed that both ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein syntheses are inhibited when 4-h cultures are shifted from 20 to 37 degrees C. Density gradient analysis of ribosomal subunits made at 37 degrees C indicated that strain 4M(t) is deficient in the accumulation of 60S ribosomal subunits in that the ratio of 60S/37S subunits was 0.29:1 compared with 1.6:1 for the parental strain. This phenotype was shown to be the result of a slow rate of processing of, and a deficiency in the amount of, the immediate precursor to 25S ribosomal RNA (the large RNA of the 60S subunit) in the sequence of events constituting the production of mature ribosomal RNAs from the primary transcript of the ribosomal deoxyribonucleic acid, the precursor ribosomal RNA molecule. Analysis of polysomes suggested that the heat-sensitive gene product might function in both the assembly and the function of the 60S ribosomal subunit, since there was a smaller proportion of newly made 60S subunits synthesized at 37 degrees C in the polysome region of the gradients than in the monosome-plus-subunit region. The ribosomal RNA processing defect is apparently responsible for the observed defects in germination and macromolecular synthesis at 37 degrees C, but the precise molecular lesion is not known. On the basis of these results, the heat-sensitive mutant allele in the 4M(t) strain is considered to define the rip1 (ribosome production) gene locus.
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- M W Loo
- Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Picard-Bennoun M, Le Coze D. Search for ribosomal mutants in Podospora anserina: genetic analysis of cold-sensitive mutants. Genet Res (Camb) 1980; 36:289-97. [PMID: 7203012 DOI: 10.1017/s001667230001990x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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SUMMARYTwenty-four cold-sensitive (prototrophic) mutants were isolated after UV mutagenesis of protoplasts of the fungusPodospora anserina. Genetic analysis of these mutants was performed in order to detect those among them which were most likely to be impaired in translational fidelity. The 24 mutations belonged to 24 different genes. One half of the mutants were pleiotropic and displayed an altered phenotype: growth rate at the permissive temperature, germination of the spores, fertility and/or sporulation. Nine mutants differed from wild-type in their resistance levels to cycloheximide, trichodermin and/or paromomycin. Several mutations were linked to known ribosomal loci. Two mutations behaved like informational antisuppressors: one is allelic to the previously describedAs3gene and the other one defines a new antisuppressor gene,AS6.
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A cold-sensitive mutant ofNeurospora crassa obtained using tritium-suicide enrichment that is conditionally defective in the biosynthesis of cytoplasmic ribosomes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/0147-5975(80)90047-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Howard D, Dabrowa N. Mutants of Arthroderma benhamiae. Med Mycol 1979. [DOI: 10.1080/00362177985380051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Crouzet M, Bégueret J. Cold-sensitivity of a double mutant strain combining two ribosomal mutations in the ascomycete Podospora anserina. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1978; 165:283-8. [PMID: 739974 DOI: 10.1007/bf00332528] [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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A double mutant strain combining two ribosomal mutations conferring resistance to cycloheximide exhibits a cold-sensitive phenotype. At low temperature the biosynthesis of the 60S subunit is impaired. Genetic analysis of cold-resistant revertants have shown that this double mutant strain can be used efficiently to isolate new ribosomal mutations.
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Coppin-Raynal E. Ribosomal suppressors and antisuppressors in Podospora anserina: resistance to cycloheximide. J Bacteriol 1977; 131:876-83. [PMID: 893344 PMCID: PMC235544 DOI: 10.1128/jb.131.3.876-883.1977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Informational suppressors and antisuppressors have been previously isolated in Podospora anserina, and a range of exclusively genetic arguments have led to the assumption that they correspond to ribosomal mutations. An in vivo and in vitro comparison of the effect of the ribosomal inhibitor cycloheximide on wildtype and mutant strains described in this paper confirms the ribosomal hypothesis for at least some mutants. Indeed, the four mutants in the AS3 gene were cycloheximide resistant, and their ribosomes were found to be resistant when analyzed by polyuridyl-directed polyphenylalanine systhesis. On the other hand, ribosomes from two su 1 mutants were hypersensitive to the drug.
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Russell PJ, Hammett JR, Selker EU. Neurospora crassa cytoplasmic ribosomes; ribosomal ribonucleic acid synthesis in the wild type. J Bacteriol 1976; 127:785-93. [PMID: 134025 PMCID: PMC232985 DOI: 10.1128/jb.127.2.785-793.1976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The biosynthesis of ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) In wild-type Neurospora crassa growing at 25 degrees C was investigated by continuous-labeling and pulsechase experiments using [5-3H]uridine. The results of these experiments suggest the following precursor-product relationships: the first RNA molecule to be synthesized in significant quantities is the 2.4 X 10(6)-dalton (2.4-Mdal) ribosomal precursor RNA. This RNA is cleaved to produce two species of RNA with weights of 0.7 and 1.4-Mdal. The former is the mature 17S rRNA of the 37S ribosomal subunit. The 1.4-Mdal RNA is subsequently cleaved to produce the mature 1.27-Mdal (25S) and 61,000-dalton (5.8S) rRNA's of the 60S ribosomal subunit. In the maturation process, approximately 15 to 20% of the 2.4-Mdal ribosomal precursor rRNA molecule is lost. As in other eukaryotes that have been examined, 5S rRNA is not derived from this precursor molecule.
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Russell PJ, Hammett JR, Selker EU. Neurospora crassa cytoplasmic ribosomes: cold-sensitive mutant defective in ribosomal ribonucleic acid synthesis. J Bacteriol 1976; 125:1112-9. [PMID: 130375 PMCID: PMC236190 DOI: 10.1128/jb.125.3.1112-1119.1976] [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: 12/13/2022] Open
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Experiments were conducted to characterize further the biochemical defects of crib-1 (PJ30201), a coldsensitive mutant strain of Neurospora crassa with a defect in ribosome biosynthesis. The results are as follows. (i) The critical temperature for the expression of the mutant growth and ribosome phenotypes is in the range of 18 to 20 C. (ii) No preferential breakdown of 37S cytoplasmic ribosomal subunits synthesized by crib-1 at 25 C occurs after a shift to 10 C. (iii) Ribosomal subunits synthesized by crib-1 at 25 C function normally in in vivo protein synthesis at 10 C. (iv) Whereas wild type synthesizes both ribosomal subunits in a coordinate manner after either a temperature shift-down (25 to 10 C) of a shift-up (10 to 25 C), noncoordinate synthesis of ribosomal subunits owing to underproduction of 37S subunits occurs in the crib-1 strain immediately after a temperature shift-down. (v) After a shift from 10 to 25 C crib-1 exhibits a 12-h lag before the growth rate and the rate of synthesis of 37S subunits begin to increase significantly. (vi) At 10 C crib-1 synthesizes unequal amounts of 25S and 17S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) molecules, resulting from a greatly reduced accumulation of stable 17S rRNA. The mutant phenotypes of crib-1 are proposed to be the result of a defect in rRNA processing.
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Farber RA, Unrau P. Induction and isolation of cold-sensitive lines of Chinese hamster cells. Methods Cell Biol 1976; 14:265-71. [PMID: 1004229 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(08)60488-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Falke EV, Wright TR. Cold-sensitive mutants of Drosophila melanogaster defective in ribosome assembly. Genetics 1975; 81:655-82. [PMID: 814036 PMCID: PMC1213427 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/81.4.655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Thirteen X-linked, cold-sensitive lethal, female-sterile mutants of Drosophila melanogaster located at eight separate loci were screened for their ability to assemble ribosomes at the restrictive temperature of 17 degrees. Females were labelled with 3H-uridine for either 2 or 20 hours at 17 degrees. A mitochondria-free extract was prepared and analyzed by means of sucrose gradient centrifugation. Four of the mutants, l(1)TW-2cs, l(1)HM16cs, l(1)HM23cs, and l(1)HM20cs, had a lower ratio of cpm in the 40S subunit to cpm in the 60S subunit (40S:60S ratio) than wild type with a 2-hour label. The same was true of a 20-hour label of l(1)TW-2cs, l(1)HM16cs, and l(1)HM23cs, which are allelic, resulted in a 40S:60S ratio higher than wild type. Four other cs mutants were found to have less drastic effects on ribosome assembly. The ribosomal subunits of mutants l(1)HM16cs and l(1)HM20cs sediment at the same rate as their wild-type counterparts. The same is true for the RNA in their ribosomal particles. Sucrose gradient analysis of ribosomes from cold-sensitive lethal, female-sterile mutants appears to be an effective method for finding mutants that affect ribosome assembly.
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Farber RA, Unrau P. Isolation of cold-sensitive Chinese hamster cells. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1975; 138:233-42. [PMID: 1237784 DOI: 10.1007/bf00269350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Six cold-sensitive variants have been isolated from Chinese hamster ovary cells by the BUdR-visible light selection technique. The properties of one of these lines have been studied in detail. This line stops dividing immediately after a shift from 39 degrees C to 33 degrees C though its doubling time at 39 degrees C is only slightly longer than that of wild-type cells. The rates of DNA and protein synthesis are severely reduced at 33 degrees C, but the rate of RNA synthesis is not significantly different from wild-type cells. This line may be defective in protein synthesis, but the results of sedimentation analysis indicate that it probably has normal ribosomal subunit assembly.
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Pringle JR. Induction, selection, and experimental uses of temperature-sensitive and other conditional mutants of yeast. Methods Cell Biol 1975; 12:233-72. [PMID: 591 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(08)60959-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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