The Aspergillus nidulans velvet domain containing transcription factor VeA is shuttled from cytoplasm into nucleus during vegetative growth and stays there for sexual development, but has to return into cytoplasm for asexual development.

ABSTRACT: Survival of multicellular organisms requires the coordinated interplay between networks regulating gene expression and controlled intracellular transport of respective regulators. Velvet domain proteins are fungal transcription factors, which form various heterodimers and play key roles in controlling early developmental decisions towards more either asexual or sexual differentiation. VeA is the central subunit of the trimeric velvet complex VelB-VeA-LaeA, which links transcriptional to epigenetic control for the coordination of fungal developmental programs to specific secondary metabolite synthesis. Nuclear localization of the VeA bridging factor is carefully controlled in fungi. In this work we demonstrate that VeA carries three nuclear localization signals NLS1, NLS2 and NLS3, which al

SUBMITTER: Strohdiek A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12169562 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature