Properties of two cyclic nucleotide-deficient mutants of Neurospora crassa.
AUTOR(ES)
Rosenberg, G
RESUMO
Studies on the crisp-1 (cr-1), cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP)-deficient mutants of Neurospora crassa were undertaken to characterize the response of these mutants to exogenous cyclic nucleotides and cyclic nucleotide analogs. A growth tube bioassay and a radioimmune assay for cyclic nucleotides yielded the following results. (i) 8-Bromo cAMP and N6-monobutyryl cAMP but not dibutyryl cAMP are efficient cAMP analogs in Neurospora, stimulating mycelial elongation of the cr-1 mutants. Exogenous cyclic guanosine 3'5'-monophosphate (cGMP) also stimulates such mycelial elongation. (ii) Both cAMP levels and cGMP levels found in cr-1 mycelia are lower than those in wild type. However, the levels of both cyclic nucleotides are normal in conidia of cr-1. The data on cr-1 mycelia and those reported earlier in Escherichia coli (M. Shibuya, Y. Takebe, and Y. Kaziro (Cell 12:528-528, 1977) show a previously unexpected relationship between cAMP and cGMP metabolism in microorganisms. The semicolonial morphology of another adenylate cyclase-deficient mutant of Neurospora, frost, was not corrected by exogenous cyclic nucleotides or by phosphodiesterase inhibitors indicating that the frost morphology is probably not caused by low endogenous cAMP levels. The low adenylate cyclase activity and the abnormal morphology of frost may be related separately to the linolenate deficiency reported in the mutant.
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