Pulse-labelling experiments with growing Neurospora crassa revealed that the polypeptides composing the protein moiety of a cytochrome oxidase preparation are derived from at least four independent pools of precursor polypeptides. The pool sizes range from 2 ° f 0 to 25 °/0 of the amount of the corresponding polypeptide present in cytochrome oxidase. The smallest pool is assigned to a polypepti...

the sulfur regulatory circuit of the filamentous fungus, neurospora crassa, consists of a set of unlinked structural genes which encode sulfur catabolic and two major regulatory genes which govern their expression. the cys-3 regulatory gene encode a transacting regulatory protein which activates the expression of cys-14 and ars, whereas the other regulatory genes scon-l and scon-2 appear to act...

Many fungi form complex three-dimensional fruiting bodies, within which the meiotic machinery for sexual spore production has been considered to be largely conserved over evolutionary time. Indeed, much of what we know about meiosis in plant and animal taxa has been deeply informed by studies of meiosis in Saccharomyces and Neurospora. Nevertheless, the genetic basis of fruiting body developmen...

Intracellular pH (pH(i)) was measured during the circadian cycle of Neurospora. Internal pH of Neurospora cultures in liquid medium was assayed by the 5,5-dimethyl-2,4-oxazolidinedione method and gave values for pH(i) which were similar to those previously obtained by other workers using pH-microelectrodes with agar-grown cultures. Cytoplasmic pH changed in liquid medium cultures, but these cha...

in this study, the nutritive values of treated walnut hull by neurospora sitophila were evaluated. the chemical composition of samples was evaluated by laboratory analysis.in vitrodigestibility experiment was done to determine digestibility coefficients of dry matter, organic matter and also digestible organic matter in dry matter (domd) to estimate the metabolizable energy (me) content oftreat...

We previously described two plasmids that replicate autonomously in both Neurospora and E. coli (Stohl and Lambowitz, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A. 80, 1058-1062, 1983). One plasmid, pALS1, consists of the Neurospora ga-2+ gene (3 kb Hind III-fragment), the mitochondrial plasmid from N. intermedia strain P405-Labelle, and E. coli plasmid pBR325. The other, pALS2, is a putative deletion derivat...

Cyclitol derivatives have been synthesized and screened for growth inhibitory effect upon prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. One derivative, (2S,3R,5R)-3-azido-2-benzoyloxy-5-hydroxycyclohexanone, was studied in detail: it has no effect upon bacteria, but it is inhibitory to Neurospora crassa. In Neurospora crassa it increased the amount of myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase and inhibited the...

Biochemicalical evidence is presented which demonstrates that the Neurospora crassa plasma membrane ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3) is an electrogenic pump. The electrical potential across the Neurospora plasma membrane, as monitored by [14C]SCN- uptake by isolated Neurospora plasma membrane vesicles, is markedly increased interior positive under conditions of ATP hydrolysis catalyzed...

Phosphorylation of circadian clock proteins represents a major regulatory step that controls circadian clocks. In Neurospora, the circadian clock protein FREQUENCY (FRQ) is progressively phosphorylated over time, and its level decreases when it is hyperphosphorylated. In this study, we showed that most of the kinase activity phosphorylating FRQ in vitro was calcium/calmodulin-dependent, and the...