Genetic analysis of genes involved in melanin biosynthesis of Cochliobolus miyabeanus |
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Institution: | 1. The Key Lab of National Tobacco Cultivation, College of Tobacco Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China;2. College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China;3. Zhumadian Branch of Henan Province Tobacco Company, Zhumadian 463000, PR China |
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Abstract: | Color mutants of Cochliobolus miyabeanus defective in melanin biosynthesis were isolated. Although the wild-type strain KU-13 formed dark green colonies, color mutants formed white, brown, and gray colonies or white colonies with red pigment secretion. From the white mutant which secreted red pigment, designated scy, a melanin precursor which restored melanization of albino mutants alm-1 was isolated and identified as scytalone. This indicated that scy mutant was defective in the conversion of scytalone to 1,3,8-trihydroxynaphthalene and that melanin of this fungus is of pentaketide origin formed from oxidation of 1,8-dihydroxynaphthalene. Albino mutants alm-1 were considered to be defective in pentaketide cyclization and brown mutants brm were considered to be defective in the conversion of 1,3,8-trihydroxynaphthalene to vermelone. Albino mutants alm-2 whose coloration was not restored by application of scytalone were also isolated. The alm-2 gene was believed to be a gene transactively regulating the pentaketide cyclization and conversion of scytalone. From crossing experiments among the color mutants, it was indicated that alm-1, alm-2, and brm were linked and that scy segregates independently of these three mutant loci. Crossing of a methionine requiring mutant with alm and scy indicated that the three loci segregate independently of each other. |
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