Temperature-sensitive mutants of Physarum polycephalum: viability, growth, and nuclear replication.

AUTOR(ES)

Laffler, T G

RESUMO

Using a selfing strain of Physarum polycephalum that forms haploid plasmodia, we have isolated temperature-sensitive growth mutants in two ways. The negative selectant, netropsin, was used to enrich for temperature-sensitive mutants among a population of mutagenized amoebae, and, separately, a nonselective screening method was used to isolate plasmodial temperature-sensitive mutants among clonal plasmodia derived from mutagenized amoebae. Complementation in heterokaryons was used to sort the mutants into nine functional groups. When transferred to the restrictive temperature, two mutants immediately lysed, whereas the remainder slowed or stopped growing. Of the two lytic mutants, one affected both amoebae and plasmodia, and the other affected plasmodia alone. The growth-defective mutants were examined for protein and deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis and for aberrations in mitotic behavior. One mutant may be defective in both protein and deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis, and another only in deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis. The latter shows a striking reduction in the frequency of postmitotic reconstruction nuclei at the restrictive temperature. We believe that this mutant, MA67, is affected in a step in the nuclear replication cycle occurring late in G2. Execution of this step is necessary for both mitosis and chromosome replication.

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