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Differential expression of glucose-regulated (grp78) and heat-shock-inducible (hsp70) genes during asexual development of Neurospora crassa

Institute of Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Bremen, PO Box 330440, D-28334 Bremen, Germany

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Summary: The expression of a glucose-regulated gene (grp78) changes significantly during the vegetative life cycle of Neurospora crassa: the amounts of grp78 mRNA are low in dormant conidia, increase during germination and exponential growth, decline in young aerial hyphae and reach a maximum in late (15-18 h) aerial hyphae. Heat shock (30 min at 45°C) elevated the mRNA level of this gene especially in early aerial hyphae, whereas no increase above the high constitutive amount was found after heat treatment of late aerial hyphae. The expression of the inducible hsp70 gene after heat shock also varied with the state of development and showed the highest inducibility in late aerial hyphae. Surface mycelium, from which aerial hyphae emerge, showed a similar increase in the amounts of both mRNA species. A developmental mutant (acon-2), which is defective in minor constriction budding of aerial hyphae, showed lower levels of con-2 mRNA as well as of grp78 and hsp70 mRNA (after heat shock) in late aerial hyphae. The acon-2 mutant did not form conidia at this stage. It is concluded that the high constitutive and inducible expression of stress genes in late aerial hyphae is due to a developmental activation of their transcription or, alternatively, to a lower degradation rate of their mRNA during this stage.

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