Author:
Butnick N Z,Yager L N,Hermann T E,Kurtz M B,Champe S P
Abstract
Mutants of Aspergillus nidulans defective in conidiation (asexual sporulation) can be classified according to whether they are blocked before or after induction of conidiation. Mutants blocked before induction (preinduction mutants) appear to be unable to respond to the inducing stimulus and thus are defective in one of the earliest events in the sporulation process. Three preinduction mutants have been isolated and characterized. Each was found to exhibit the same pleiotropic phenotype: they also were defective in sexual sporulation and secreted a set of phenolic metabolites at a level much higher than did wild type or mutants blocked at later stages of conidiation. One of the metabolites has been identified as the antibiotic diorcinal (3,3'-dihydroxy-5,5'-dimethyldiphenyl ether) which is known to be involved in the synthesis of certain farnesyl phenols of unknown function. These results suggest that preinduction mutants are blocked in a phenolic metabolic pathway, one or more product of which participates in the initiation of sporulation.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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