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The Journal of Heredity 1991:82(1):1-7
© 1991 The American Genetic Association 82:1-7

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Organization and Regulation of the Qa (Quinic Acid) Genes in Neurospora crassa and Other Fungi

N. H. Giles, R. F. Geever, D. K. Asch, J. Avalos, and M. E. Case

From the Department of Genetics, University of Georgia Athens

Address reprint requests to Dr. Giles, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.

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In Neurospora crassa, five structural genes and two regulatory genes control the use of quinic acid as a carbon source. All seven genes are tightly linked to form the qa gene cluster. The entire cluster, which has been cloned and sequenced, occupies a continuous DNA segment of 17.3 kb. Three pairs of genes are divergently transcribed. including the two regulatory genes that are located at one end of the cluster and that encode an activator (qa-1F) and a repressor (qa-S). Three of the structural genes (qa-2, qa-3, and qa-4) encode inducible enzymes that catalyze the catabolism of quinic acid. One structural gene (qa-y) encodes a quinate permease; the funciton of the fifth gene (qa-x) is still unclear. Present genetic and molecular evidence indicates that the qa activator and r epressor proteins and the indicer quinic acid interact to control expression at the transcrptional level of all the qa genes. The activator, the product of the autoregulated qa-1F gene, binds to symmetrical 16 base parir upstream activating sequences facted one or more times 5 to each of the qa genes. A conserved 28 amio acid sequence containing a six cysteine zinc binding motif located in the amino terminal region of the activator has been directly implicated in DNA binding. Evidence for other functional domains in the activator and repressor proteins are discussed. Indirect evidence suggestes that the repressor is not a DNA-binding protein but forms an inactive complex with the activator in the obsence of the indicer. Comparative studies indicate that in three homthallic species of Neurospora the qa genes are clustered and arranged in the same order as in N. crassa, but sequence divergence has occurred in intergenic regions. In Aspergillus nidulans, however, although the qa genes remain clustered, a considerable rearrangement in the order of the seven homologous genes has occurred.


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