FGSC #4573

Mutant Type

Genus: N

reporting_genes: mat A[m64] un-3 ad-3A nic-2 cyh-1

species: Neurospora crassa

allele: m64 55701(t) 2-17-814 43002 KH52(r)

stock:

glasgow:

mutagen:

Depositor: AJG

Link Group: I

MT:

Species No: 10

gene_back: M

oppmt: 0

trans:

ref1: Griffiths, A.J.F. Can J. Genet. 24:167-176. 1982, https://doi.org/10.1139/g82-016

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ksudc_link: https://digital.lib.k-state.edu/item/neurospora-crassa/fgsc-4573

ksudc_link_html: https://digital.lib.k-state.edu/item/neurospora-crassa/fgsc-4573 ↗

Genes

Locus	Cultural Requirements	Link Group	Type
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
un-3	IL. Right of In(NM176); hence, right of ser-3 (1%) (1093). Left of mt(0.04 to 0.1%) (488, 758). Closest bracketing marker left of mt (482). Unknown function. Heat sensitive (484). Growth drops off sharply between 28.5°C and 30°C (R.L. Metzenberg, personal communication). Multiply transport deficient at permissive temperatures with increased fragility of protoplasts (543); reduced rate of uptake of citrulline (1075) and aspartate (543, 1149). Resistant to ethionine and to p-fluorophenylalanine at 25°C (542, 543). Used to tag mating type (487) and as a flanker in an attempt to resolve the mating type region by recombination (758). Strains with probable un-3alleles are selected as citrulline-resistant mutants of pyr-3 arg-12s; most mutants selected in this way show complementation between alleles (1075). A possible functional relation to mating type is discussed in reference 543, Growth at 25°C aided by 0.3 mg of sodium acetate per ml. May be scored by slow growth at 25°C if acetate is not added to minimal medium (487). Formerly called un(55701).	IL	B
Am64			B
ad-3A	IR. Between his-3 (1 to 2%) and ad-3B (0.1 to 0.7%) (271). Right of ure-4 (78). (482) Requires adenine or hypoxanthine (682). Blocked in interconversion of CAIR plus aspartate to SAICAR (348) (Fig. 8). Produces purple pigment, permitting direct visual selection (276, 682); see the ad-3B entry. Reduced interallelic fertility (407). No interallelic complementation (267; F.J. de Serres, personal communication). ad-3A and ad-3B are two genetically and functionally distinct loci separated by a short but functionally complex region of unknown but essential function (271, 407). They have been used intensively for quantitative genetic and molecular studies of mutation (for a review, see reference 35). Either forward mutation (e.g., reference 277) or reverse mutation (e.g., reference 772) can be measured precisely; the former is detected visually by purple pigment. Purple pigment has also been used to assess the effect of histidine and tryptophan on purine nucleotide synthesis (786). Alleles N23 and N24 have been used as mutagen testers. N23 reverts with agents that cause base pair substitutions; N24 reverts with agents that cause frameshifts (772). SK(ad-3A) is at or near ad-3A and may be a cryptic ad-3A allele. Does not require adenine. In SK(ad-3A)x ad-3Acrosses, the ad-3A progeny die; possibly SK(ad-3A) mutants fail to make enough adenine to support their growth (251). Translocations Y155M64 ad-3A (272; PB) and Y112M15 ad-3A(413) each have one breakpoint that is inseparable from ad-3A. Called complementation group A (264). "A" in the locus symbol does not refer to mating type.	IR	B
cyh-1	IR. Right of nit-1 (6%). Left of T(STL76) and al-2 (8 to 13%) (496, 797, 808).Resistant to cycloheximide (496, 748). Resistance is recessive in duplications (1090). Dominance reported in forced heterokaryons (496, 748) may have been due to skewed nuclear ratios (1090). Protein synthesis on ribosomes of the mutant cyh-1 proceeds in the presence of cycloheximide in a cell-free system (834). Readily scored on slants with 10 µg of cycloheximide per ml autoclaved in the medium. Excellent as a marker and valuable for selecting somatic recombinants or deletions in heterozygous duplications (748, 1091). Used to show that the cycloheximide-induced phase shift of the circadian clock involves protein synthesis (738). Called act-1: actidione resistant-1.	IR	B