The homologue of het-c of Neurospora crassa lacks vegetative compatibility function in Fusarium proliferatum.

ABSTRACT: For two fungal strains to be vegetatively compatible and capable of forming a stable vegetative heterokaryon they must carry matching alleles at a series of loci variously termed het or vic genes. Cloned het/vic genes from Neurospora crassa and Podospora anserina have no obvious functional similarity and have various cellular functions. Our objective was to identify the homologue of the Neurospora het-c gene in Fusarium proliferatum and to determine if this gene has a vegetative compatibility function in this economically important and widely dispersed fungal pathogen. In F. proliferatum and five other closely related Fusarium species we found a few differences in the DNA sequence, but the changes were silent and did not alter the amino acid sequence of the resulting protein. Deleting the

SUBMITTER: Kerenyi Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1610276 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature