FGSC #240

Mutant Type

Genus: N

reporting_genes: arg-3 nic-2 al-1 pt;ylo-1

species: Neurospora crassa

allele: 30300 43002 34508 NS1(t) Y30539y

stock: 1288

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Depositor: DDP

Link Group: IIL IIR IIR;IVR;VIR

MT: A

Species No: 10

gene_back:

oppmt: 0

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Genes

Locus	Cultural Requirements	Link Group	Type
ylo-1	VIL. Between cys-1 (8%) and ad-1 (6%). Probably right of Bml (2%) (1012, PB). (381). Yellow carotenoids (381). Affects synthesis of neurosporaxanthin (4'-apo-beta'-caroten-4'-oic acid); citations in reference 398. Lesion probably involves the conversion of lycopene to 3,4-dehydrolycopene or the conversion of either torulene or gamma-carotene to neurosporaxanthin (398 and references therein) (Fig. 9). Resembles the orange wild type in young cultures, but color differences become clear with age. Expressed in both conidia and mycelia. Undefined modifiers affect intensity. Fails to complement with many of the al-1 and al-2 albino strains (R.E. Subden, personal communication).	VIL	B
pt	IVR. Right of T(S1229) and pdx-1 (2%). Left of col-4(2%) (40, 55, 808). (201) Original S4342 strain contained linked but separable insertional translocation T(S4342) (808), the presence of which should not change conclusions regarding gene order given in reference 40. Requires phenylalanine plus tyrosine (201). Lacks chorismate mutase (40, 316) (Fig. 11). Evidently the structural gene; strains carrying allele NS1 have thermolabile chorismate mutase (D.E.A. Catcheside, personal communication). NS1 strains are temperature sensitive, growing on minimal medium at 25 C, where they are readily scorable by blue fluorescence under long-wave UV and by browning of medium of aging cultures (1035). Inhibited by complex complete medium.	IVR	B
arg-3	Uses citrulline or arginine.	IL	B
al-1	IR. Right of hom (<1%), arg-6 (<1 to 4%), T(T54M94), and al-2. Left of lys-3 (9%). (797, 808; D.D. Perkins, unpublished data). (482) Carotenoids abnormal. Strains carrying the various alleles differ widely in phenotype, ranging from white (e.g., 4637) and "aurescent" (pigment in peripheral conidia and conidiophores, 34508) to yellow mycelia and conidia (e.g., ALS4 and RES-25). See, for example, reference 1042. Strains carrying alleles ALS-14, RES-6, 34508, and RES-25 contain large amounts of phytoene (99 to 100% of the total neutral carotenoids), suggesting a lesion that affects phytoene dehydrogenase (398, 1039) (see Fig. 9). Strains carrying allele RWT-ylo accumulate zeta carotene and smaller amounts of neurosporene, suggesting a leaky block of the step between these intermediates (1071). It is not known whether phytoene dehydrogenase catalyzes the whole series of dehydrogenations or whether leakiness of this enzyme accounts for the different mutant phenotypes. For complementation tests, see references 500, 1039, and 1041. Fine-structure mapping (500, 1042). Translocation T(4637), inseparable from al-1, was the first albino mutation and one of the first chromosome rearrangements in Neurospora to be identified and studied (656). Allele 34508 called aur: aurescent.	IR	B
nic-2	IR. Between ad-3B (4%) and ace-7 (4 to 7%) (271, 578). (482) Grows on nicotinic acid, nicotinamide, or high concentrations of quinolinic acid (97, 1168). Cannot use kynurenine, hydroxykynurenine, or hydroxyanthranilic acid (96, 1168). Accumulates 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (96) (Fig. 18). Aging cultures accumulate red-brown pigment in the medium. Used to study intralocus recombination (908). Translocations T(4540) and T(S1325)are inseparable from nic-2 (808, 908, 911).	IR	B