FGSC #158

Mutant Type

Genus: N

reporting_genes: met-7 wc-1 nt

species: Neurospora crassa

allele: 4894 P829 C86

stock: 7047

glasgow:

mutagen:

Depositor: DDP

Link Group: VIIR VIIR VIIR

MT: a

Species No: 10

gene_back:

oppmt: 0

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Genes

Locus	Cultural Requirements	Link Group	Type
met-7	VIIR. Right of qa-2 (<1%), ars (<1%), and the centromere (one second-division ascus in several hundred). Left of met-9 (10[-4]) and wc-1 (1 to 4%) (146, 725; M.E. Case, personal communication). (718; M.K. Allen, cited in references 718 and 789) Uses cystathionine, homocysteine, or methionine (718; N. H. Horowitz, cited in reference 1180). Lacks cystathionine-gamma-synthase (547) (Fig. 17). This enzyme is also lacking in the mutant met-3 (547). See met-3 for regulation. Apparently contiguous with met-9by coconversion. Flanking markers are recombined in most met-7+ met-9+ recombinants (725). Functionally distinct from the mutant met-9, which has active cystathionine-gamma-synthase (547) but cannot use homocysteine. No mutants lacking both functions have been isolated. Allele NM251 is suppressible by supersuppressor RN33 (same as ssu-1?) (725). Allele K79 is inseparable from reciprocal translocation T(I;VII)K79 (808).	VIIR	B
wc-1	VIIR. Right of met-9 (1 to 4%). Left of un-10 (7%) and for (6%) (724, 812, 816). Carotenoids absent from mycelia; conidia become pigmented with some delay. Named because nonconidiating rim at top of agar slant remains white. A double mutant with flor other nonconidiating mutant would be classed as albino. Regulatory mutants for photoinduced carotenogenesis via blue light receptor might be expected to have a similar phenotype (444, 445). A blue light treatment (given in vivo), which increases the activity of soluble and microsomal enzymes required for phytoene biosynthesis in the wild type, does not do so in the mutant wc-1 (445). Fails to show phototropism of perithecial beaks when used as the female (protoperithecial) parent, but not when used as the male (fertilizing) parent (R. W. Harding, personal communication). Useful genetic marker (725, 800). Scoring clearest at high temperatures (34 C).	VIIR	B
nt	VIIR. Between arg-10 (2 to 12%) and sk (7 to 18%) (789). (874) Uses nicotinic acid. May respond also to tryptophan, phenylalanine, tyrosine, quinic acid, and precursors of nicotinic acid or tryptophan, or both, depending on genetic background (448, 760). Best supplemented with nicotinamide and scored as a nic mutant. Probably deficient in tryptophan pyrrolase (tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase) (Fig. 18), but direct evidence is lacking because tryptophan oxygenase cannot be assayed in Neurospora (368). Kynurenine formamidase levels are normal (368). Pyridine nucleotide levels (111).	VIIR	B