Genetical and Molecular Analyses of qa-2 Transformants in NEUROSPORA CRASSA
AUTOR(ES)
Case, Mary E.
RESUMO
Neurospora crassa qa-2+ transformants from five different donor DNA clones were analyzed by genetical and molecular techniques. None of the 32 transformants have the qa-2+ DNA replacing the qa-2- gene in linkage group VII. In one transformant, the qa-2+ DNA was inserted adjacent to the qa-2 - gene. Thirty-one transformants have the qa-2+ inserts at sites not linked, or not closely linked, to the qa-2 locus in LG VII. Plasmid sequences were integrated along with the qa-2+ gene in 28 transformants. In the unlinked duplication-type transformants, catabolic dehydroquinase (the qa-2+ gene product) was induced at 5–100% of the wild-type-induced enzyme activity, with 24 transformants in the 5–80% range. The reduced levels of enzyme activity may be due to "position effects" of sequences adjacent to the integration site either in the N. crassa genomic DNA or in the flanking plasmid (pBR322 or pBR325) sequences. Unexpected gene conversion-like events, in which a qa-2+ gene was changed to qa-2- , were observed in tetrads from intercrosses between unlinked duplication-type transformants and in selfings of such transformants.
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