粗糙脉孢霉瓜氨酸需求型突变株的分离

对粗糙脉孢霉双突变株ａｒｇ－４,ａｒｇ－１３进行了紫外诱变,利用过滤富集法分离了不能利用乌氨酸,能利用瓜氨酸的３个突变株,利用互补针分离的约６０个突变株分成了４个互补群,这可能代表４个独立的基因位点。     

The methylated component of the Neurospora crassa genome

Cytosine methylation is common, but not ubiquitous, in eukaryotes. Mammals and the fungus Neurospora crassa have about 2-3% of cytosines methylated. In mammals, methylation is almost exclusively in the under-represented CpG dinucleotides, and most CpGs are methylated whereas in Neurospora, methylation is not preferentially in CpG dinucleotides and the bulk of the genome is unmethylated. DNA methylation is essential in mammals but is dispensable in Neurospora, making this simple eukaryote a favoured organism in which to study methylation. Recent studies indicate that DNA methylation in Neurospora depends on one DNA methyltransferase, DIM-2 (ref. 6), directed by a histone H3 methyltransferase, DIM-5 (ref. 7), but little is known about its cellular and evolutionary functions. As only four methylated sequences have been reported previously in N. crassa, we used methyl-binding-domain agarose chromatography to isolate the methylated component of the genome. DNA sequence analysis shows that the methylated component of the genome consists almost exclusively of relics of transposons that were subject to repeat-induced point mutation--a genome defence system that mutates duplicated sequences.     

Independent transfer of mitochondrial plasmids in Neurospora crassa

In the ascomycete fungus Neurospora, the distribution of homologous mitochondrial plasmid DNAs in different species and among mitochondrial types of N. crassa suggests that these molecules have moved between lineages of clonally propagated mtDNA. Here we report direct evidence for independent inheritance of mitochondrial plasmids by sexual reproduction which may help explain the distribution of these molecules among mitochondrial lineages.     

The genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa

Neurospora crassa is a central organism in the history of twentieth-century genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology. Here, we report a high-quality draft sequence of the N. crassa genome. The approximately 40-megabase genome encodes about 10,000 protein-coding genes--more than twice as many as in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and only about 25% fewer than in the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster. Analysis of the gene set yields insights into unexpected aspects of Neurospora biology including the identification of genes potentially associated with red light photobiology, genes implicated in secondary metabolism, and important differences in Ca2+ signalling as compared with plants and animals. Neurospora possesses the widest array of genome defence mechanisms known for any eukaryotic organism, including a process unique to fungi called repeat-induced point mutation (RIP). Genome analysis suggests that RIP has had a profound impact on genome evolution, greatly slowing the creation of new genes through genomic duplication and resulting in a genome with an unusually low proportion of closely related genes.     

粗糙脉孢菌BenR基因在哈茨木霉中的定点转化

以β2-微管蛋白基因为定点整合位点,通过原生质体法将多菌灵抗性基因转化到哈茨木霉中,获得了具有多菌灵抗性的生物防治工程菌株．多菌灵抑制抗性转化子菌丝生长的ECso值达471．26μg／mL,比哈茨木霉原菌株提高1200倍以上;转化子对多菌灵的抗性具有遗传稳定性,且在无选择压力下菌丝生长速度及菌落形态与原菌株无显著差别;抑菌活性检测结果表明,3个转化子对立枯丝核菌均具有较强的抑菌活性,对菌丝生长的抑制率分别为87．5％、86．3％和85％．     

粗糙脉孢菌及其在发酵工业中的应用研究

粗糙脉孢菌（Neurospora crassa）是一种多细胞丝状真菌,也是一种重要的真核模式生物,它在现代遗传学、生物化学和分子生物学研究领域具有重要的地位。本文介绍了粗糙脉孢菌的生理特性及其分子生物学研究概况,重点阐述了粗糙脉孢菌在发酵工业生产应用中的研究进展。