Affiliation:
1. Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, UMR 8621 CNRS-Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay, France
Abstract
Abstract
The heterothallic fungus Podospora anserina has two mating-type alleles termed mat+ and mat−. The mat+ sequence contains one gene, FPR1, while mat− contains three genes: FMR1, SMR1, and SMR2. FPR1 and FMR1 are required for fertilization, which is followed by mitotic divisions of the two parental nuclei inside the female organ. This leads to the formation of plurinucleate cells containing a mixture of parental mat+ and mat− nuclei. Further development requires a recognition between mat+ and mat− nuclei before migration of the mat+/mat− pairs into specialized hyphae in which karyogamy, meiosis, and ascospore formation take place. FPR1, FMR1, and SMR2 control this internuclear recognition step. Initial development of the dikaryotic stage is supposed to require SMR1; disruption of SMR1 results in barren perithecia. In a systematic search for suppressors restoring fertility, we isolated 15 suppressors—all of them mutations in the mating-type genes. These fmr1, smr2, and fpr1 mutants, as well as the strains disrupted for FMR1, SMR2, and FPR1, are weakly self-fertile. They are able to act as the male partner on a strain of the same mating type and give a mixture of biparental and uniparental progeny when crossed with a wild-type strain of opposite mating type. These observations lead us to propose that SMR2, FMR1, and FPR1 act as activators and repressors of fertilization and internuclear recognition functions.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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