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1756977

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-2-5
pubmed:abstractText
We have isolated strains of Fusarium oxysporum carrying mutations conferring a phenotype characteristic of a loss of function in the regulatory gene of nitrate assimilation (nirA in Aspergillus nidulans, nit-4 in Neurospora crassa). One of these nir- mutants was successfully transformed with a plasmid containing the nirA gene of A. nidulans. The nitrate reductase of the transformants is still inducible, although the maximum activity is lower than in the wild type. Single and multiple integration events were found, as well as a strict correlation between the presence of the nirA gene and the Nir+ phenotype of the F. oxysporum transformants. We also investigated how the A. nidulans structural gene (niaD) is regulated in F. oxysporum. Enzyme assays and Northern experiments show that the niaD gene is subject to nitrate induction and that it responds to nitrogen metabolite repression in a F. oxysporum genetic background. This indicates that both the mechanisms of specific induction, mediated by a gene product isofunctional to nirA, and nitrogen metabolite repression, presumably mediated by a gene product isofunctional to the homologous gene of A. nidulans, are operative in F. oxysporum.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0378-1119
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
109
pubmed:geneSymbol
nirA
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
155-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Heterologous expression of the Aspergillus nidulans regulatory gene nirA in Fusarium oxysporum.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Unité Associée au CNRS 1354, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study