Molecular cloning and regulatory analysis of the arylsulfatase structural gene of Neurospora crassa.
Molecular cloning and regulatory analysis of the arylsulfatase structural gene of Neurospora crassa.
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粗糙脉孢菌芳基硫酸酯酶结构基因的分子克隆及调控分析。
DOI:
10.1128/mcb.9.9.3630-3637.1989
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Paietta,JV
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作者:
Paietta,JV
Thears-1+gene ofNeurospora crassaencodes the enzyme arylsulfatase.ars-1+is in a group of highly regulated sulfur-related structural genes that are expressed under conditions of sulfur limitation and are under coordinate control of thecys-3+andscon+regulatory genes. Thears-1+gene was cloned by chromosome walking from theqagene cluster, using a lambda library. Cotransformation of anN. crassa ars-1mutant with the isolated lambda clones and the benomyl resistance gene, followed by assay for arylsulfatase activity, was used to screen for thears-1+gene. Further confirmation that the cloned segment mapped to thears-1+locus was obtained by restriction-fragment-length polymorphism analysis. Northern (RNA) blot analysis showed that thears-1+gene was transcribed to give an mRNA of 2.3 kilobases. In wild-type cells, thears-1+transcript was abundant under sulfur-derepressing conditions but absent under repressing conditions. Time course analysis showed that the appearance ofars-1+message in sulfur-derepressed cultures paralleled the appearance of arylsulfatase enzyme activity. In addition, transcription ofars-1+was detected only under derepressing conditions in a nuclear transcription assay. In acys-3regulatory mutant that was unable to synthesize arylsulfatase (or other sulfur-controlled enzymes), there was noars-1+transcript under repressing or derepressing conditions. In a temperature-sensitivecys-3mutant, thears-1+transcript was present only at the permissive growth temperature and under sulfur derepression. A negative regulatory mutant,sconc, displayed both constitutive expression of arylsulfatase enzyme activity and content ofars-1+message.