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Genetics of nitrate reductase in Ustilago maydis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

C. M. Lewis  and
J. R. S. Fincham
C. M. Lewis
Affiliation:
The John Innes Institute, Bayfordbury, Hertford, Herts, and The Department of Genetics, University of Leeds
J. R. S. Fincham
Affiliation:
The John Innes Institute, Bayfordbury, Hertford, Herts, and The Department of Genetics, University of Leeds
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Mutants of Ustilago maydis have been isolated both, deficient and derepressed for nitrate reduction. Those deficient in enzyme fall into six groups, one of which is the structural gene. Enzyme which has proved to be more labile than that of wild-type has been isolated from a temperature-sensitive mutant at this locus. All the mutants in the structural gene have xanthine dehydrogenase activity and the situation closely parallels that of Aspergillus nidulans.

The derepressed mutants fall into four complementation groups and all are partially derepressed in that they are further inducible by nitrate. Full derepression can be conferred by induction of a second mutation. In one analysed case the second reinforcing mutation proved to be pheno-typically similar to the first one when separated from it.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , October 1970 , pp. 151 - 163
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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