HIS study was undertaken to find a common factor responsible for the various effects of a suppressor mutation, s, which is able to eliminate the nutritional requirement of certain mutants at the pyrimidine-3 locus and of those at the proline-2 and -3 loci of Neurospora (HOULAHAN and MITCHELL 1947; MITCHELL and MITCHELL 1952). The s gene was not detectable, however, aside from its interaction wi...