Relief of an auxotrophic requirement for uridine in Aspergillus nidulans strain G191 has been achieved by transformation with a segment of Neurospora crassa DNA containing the corresponding gene coding for orotidine-5'-phosphate decarboxylase. The mitotic stability of such transformants suggests that the DNA has integrated into the genome. Southern hybridisation analysis of DNA isolated from tr...

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Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) of the fungus Neurospora crassa, encoded by the spe-1 gene, catalyzes an initial and rate-limiting step in polyamine biosynthesis and is highly regulated by polyamines. In N. crassa, polyamines repress the synthesis and increase the degradation of ODC protein. Changes in the rate of ODC synthesis correlate with similar changes in the abundance of spe-1 mRNA. We ide...

Stress genes are differentially expressed during the development of Neurospora crassa and other fungi. Large amounts of constitutive heat shock protein 70 (HSC70) are found in dormant conidia of N. crassa, whereas little mRNA of the related glucose-regulated protein (grp78) is detected. It is, however, not generally clear whether heat shock protein or mRNA is preferentially stored in dormant sp...

The Neurospora crassa mitochondrial (mt) tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (CYT-18 protein) functions in splicing group I introns, in addition to aminoacylating tRNA(Tyr). Here, we compared the CYT-18 binding sites in the N. crassa mt LSU and ND1 introns with that in N. crassa mt tRNA(Tyr) by constructing three-dimensional models based on chemical modification and RNA footprinting data. Remarkably, super...

The chloride channel antagonists anthracene-9-carboxylic acid, ethacrynic acid and niflumic acid were found to be fungistatic and morphogenic when tested against the ascomycete Neurospora crassa. Potency increased with decreasing pH, suggesting that the protonated forms of the compounds were active. Niflumic acid produced the most pronounced growth aberrations which may reflect an ability to ac...