The synthesis of phosphate-repressible alkaline phosphatase do not appear to be regulated by ambient pH in the filamentous mould Neurospora crassa
Braz. j. microbiol
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33(1): 92-95, jan.-mar. 2002. graf
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ABSTRACT
In order to investigate further the adaptive response of moulds to ambient pH, we have measured by ELISA the pho-2-encoded Pi-repressible alkaline phosphatase synthesised by Neurospora crassa. We showed that the 74A and pho-2A strains of this mould secrete similar amounts of the pho-2-encoded enzyme irrespective of ambient pH, when both the preg and pgov genes are not functional, i.e., in strains nuc-2+ growing under Pi-starvation. This suggests that pho-2, which is responsive to Pistarvation via the action of genes nuc-2, preg, pgov and nuc-1, is not a gene responsive to ambient pH and that the differential glycosylation observed for the Pi-repressible alkaline phosphatase retained by the mycelium at pH 5.6 or secreted into the growth medium at pH 8.0 is the genetic response to ambient pH sensing in N. crassa.
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Main subject:
In Vitro Techniques
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Bodily Secretions
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Alkaline Phosphatase
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Clinical Enzyme Tests
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Genetics, Microbial
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Neurospora crassa
Language:
English
Journal:
Braz. j. microbiol
Journal subject:
Microbiology
Year:
2002
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidade de São Paulo/BR
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Universidade de São Paulo,/BR
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Universidade de Uberaba/BR
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