White collar-1, a central regulator of blue light responses in Neurospora, is a zinc finger protein

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1650-1657

  Ballario, Paola ^a   Vittorioso, Paola ^a   Magrelli, Armando ^a   Talora, Claudio ^a   Cabibbo, Andrea ^a   Macino, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blue light; Neurospora crassa; Photomorphogenesis; Zinc finger domain

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; LIGHT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0029879678     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00510.x     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Arpaia, G., Loros, J, Dunlap, J.C., Morelli, G. and Macino, G. (1993) The interplay of light and the circadian clock, independent dual regulation of clock-controlled gene ccg-2 (eas). Plant Physiol., 102, 1299-1305
2. Arpaia, G., Loros, J., Dunlap, J.C., Morelli, G. and Macino, G. (1995) The circadian clock-controlled gene ccg-1 is induced by light. Mol. Gen. Genet., 247, 157-163.
3. Ahmad, M. and Cashmore, A.R. (1993) The HY4 gene of A.thaliana encodes a protein with characteristics of a blue-light photoreceptor. Nature, 366, 162-166.
4. Baima, S., Macino, G and Morelli, G. (1991) Photoregulation of albino-3 gene of Neurospora crassa. J. Photochem. Photobiol., 11, 107-115.
5. Birnboim, H.C. and Doly, J. (1979) A rapid alkaline extraction procedure for screening recombinant plasmid DNA. Nucleic Acids Res., 7, 1513-1523
6. Bricmont, P A., Daugherty, J.R. and Cooper, T G. (1991) The DAL 81 gene product is required for induced expression of differentially regulated nitrogen catabolic genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Cell. Biol, 11, 1161-1166.
7. Cabibbo, A., Sporeno, E., Macino, G. and Ballario, P. (1991) CBM1, an N.crassa genomic library in pAC3 and its use for walking on chromosome VII right arm. Fungal Genet. Newslett., 38, 68-70.
8. Carattoli, A., Cogoni, C., Morelli, G. and Macino, G. (1994) Molecular characterization of upstream regulatory sequences controlling the photoinduced expression of the albino-3 gene of Neurospora crassa. Mol. Microbiol., 13, 787-795.
9. Chory, J. (1993) Out of darkness: mutants reveal pathways controlling light regulated development in plants. Trend Genet., 9, 167-172
10. Crawford, J.M., Geever, R.F., Asch, D.K. and Case, M.E. (1992) Sequence and characterization of the met-7 gene of Neurospora crassa. Gene, 111, 265-266.
11. Crawford, N.M. and Arst, H.N. (1993) The molecular genetics of nitrate assimilation in fungi and plants. Annu. Rev. Genet, 27, 115-146.
12. Cunningham, T.S. and Cooper, T.G. (1991) Expression of the DAL80 gene, whose product is homologous to the GATA factors and is a negative regulator of multiple nitrogen catabolic genes in S.cerevisiae is sensitive to nitrogen catabolite repression. Mol. Cell. Biol., 12, 6205-6215.
13. Davis, R.H. and de Serres, F.J. (1970) Genetic and microbial research techniques for Neurospora crassa. Methods Enzymol., 17A, 79-143.
14. Degli Innocenti, F. and Russo, V.E (1984) Isolation of new white collar mutants of Neurospora crassa and studies on their behaviour in the blue-light-induced formation of protoperitecia. J. Bacteriol., 159, 757-761.
15. Elich, T.D. and Chory, J. (1994) Initial events in phytochrome signalling, still in the dark. Plant Mol. Biol., 26, 1315-1327.
16. Evans, T., Reitman, M. and Fenselfeld, G. (1988) An erythrocyte-specific DNA-binding factor recognizes a regulatory sequences common to all chicken globin genes. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 85, 5976-5980.
17. Harding, R.W. and Melles, S. (1984) Genetic analysis of the phototrophism of Neurospora crassa perithecial beaks using white collar and albino mutants. Plant Physiol., 72, 996-1000.
18. Harding, R.W. and Turner, R.V. (1981) Photoregulation of the carotenoid biosynthetic pathways in albino and white collar mutants of Neurospora crassa. Plant Phystol, 68, 745-749.
19. Hesse, S.M., Stanford, D.R. and Hopper, A.K. (1994) SRD1, an S cerevisiae gene affecting pre-rRNA processing contains a C2/C2 zinc-finger motif. Nucleic Acids Res., 7, 1265-1271.
20. Kawasaki, E.S. (1990) Amplification of RNA in PCR Protocols: A Guide to Methods and Applications. Academic Press Inc., pp. 21-27.
21. Kudla, B., Caddick, M.X., Langdon, T., Martinez-Rossi, N.M., Bennet, C.F., Sisley, S, Davies, R.W. and Arst, H.N. (1990) The regulatory gene areA mediating nitrogen metabolite repression in Aspergillus nidulans. Mutations affecting specificity of gene activation alter a loop residue of a putative Zn-finger. EMBO J., 9, 1355-1364.
22. Lauter, F.R. and Russo, V.A. (1990) Light-induced dephosphorylation of a 33kDa protein in the wild-type strain of Neurospora crassa. The regulatory mutants wc-1 and wc-2 are abnormal. J. Photochem. Photobiol., 5, 95-103.
23. Lauter, F.R. and Russo, V.A. (1991) Blue light induction of conidiation specific genes in Neurospora crassa. Nucleic Acids Res., 19, 6883-6886.
24. Leong, D., Boyer, H. and Betlach, M. (1988) Transcription of genes involved in bacterio-opsin gene expression in mutants of a halophilic Archeabacterium J. Bacteriol., 170, 4910-4915.
25. Metzenberg, R.L., Stevens, J.N., Selker, E.U. and Morzycka-Wroblewska, E. (1984) A method for finding the genetic map positioning of cloned DNA fragments. Fungal Genet. Newslett., 31, 35-39.
26. Morelli, G., Nelson, M.A., Ballario, P. and Macino, G. (1993) The photoregulated carotenoid, biosynthetic genes of N.crassa. Methods Enzymol., 214, 412-424.
27. Nelson, M A., Morelli, G., Carattoli, A., Romano, N. and Macino, G. (1989) Molecular cloning of Neurospora crassa carotenoid biosynthetic gene (albino-3) regulated by blue light and the product of the white collar-1 gene. Mol. Cell Biol., 9, 1271-1276.
28. Neuhaus, G., Bowler, C., Kern, R. and Chua, N.H. (1993) Calcium/ calmodulin-dependent and independent phytochrome signal transduction pathways. Cell, 73, 937-952.
29. Omichinski, J., Clore, G., Schaad, O., Fenselfeld, G., Trainor, C., Appella, E., Stahl, S. and Gronenborn, A. (1993) NMR structure of a specific DNA complex of Zn-containing DNA binding domain of GATA-1. Science, 261, 438-446.
30. Orbach, M J, Sachs, M.S. and Yanofsky, C. (1990) Neurospora crassa arg-2 locus. Structure and expression of the gene encoding the small subunit of arginine specific carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase. J. Biol. Chem., 265, 10981-10987.
31. Orkin, S.H. (1992) GATA-binding transcription factors in hematopoietic cells. Blood, 80, 575-581.
32. Perkins, D.D., Radford, A, Newmeyer, D. and Bjorkman, M. (1982) Chromosomal loci of Neurospora crussa. Microbiol. Rev., 46, 426-570.
33. Quail, P.H. (1991) Phytochrome; a light-activated molecular switch that regulates plant gene expression. Annu. Rev. Genet., 25, 389-409.
34. Sargent, M.L. and Briggs, W.R. (1967) The effects of light on a circadian rhythm of conidiation in Neurospora. Plant Physiol., 42, 1504-1510.
35. Schindler, U. and Cashmore, A.R. (1990) Photoregulated gene expression may involve ubiquitous DNA binding proteins. EMBO J., 9, 3415-3427.
36. Schmidhauser, T.J., Lauter, F.R., Russo, E.A. and Yanofsky, C. (1990) Cloning, sequence and photoregulation of al-1, a carotenoid biosynthetic gene of Neurospora crassa. Mol. Cell. Biol., 10, 5064-5070.
37. Selker, E.U. (1990) Premeiotic instability of repeated sequences in Neurospora crassa. Annu. Rev. Genet., 24, 579-631.
38. Sessa, G., Morelli, G. and Ruberti, I. (1993) The Athb-1 and Athb-2 HD-Zip domains homodimerize forming complexes of different DNA binding specificities. EMBO J., 12, 3507-3517.
39. Shand, R F. and Betlanch, M.C. (1991) Expression of the bop gene cluster of Halobacterium halobium is induced by low oxygen tension and by light. J. Bacteriol., 173, 4692-4699.
40. Short, T.W. and Briggs, W.R. (1994) The transduction of blue light signals in higher plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol., 45, 143-171.
41. Smith, D.B. and Johnson, K.S. (1988) Single-step purification of polypeptides expressed in E.coli as fusions with glutathione S-transferase. Gene, 67, 31-40.
42. Sommer, G.J., Chambers, A.A., Eberle, J., Lauter, F.R. and Russo, V.E. (1989) Fast light-regulated genes of N.crassa. Nucleic Acids Res., 17, 5717-5724.
43. Vedele, F and Caboche, M. (1993) A tobacco cDNA clone encoding a GATA-1 zinc-finger protein homologous to regulators of nitrogen metabolism in fungi. Mol. Gen. Genet., 240, 365-373.
44. Yuan, G., Fu, Y. and Marzluf, G.A. (1991) nit-2, the major nitrogen regulatory gene of N.crassa encodes a protein with a putative Zn-finger DNA-binding domain. Mol. Cell. Biol., 11, 5735-5745.