title: Sequence analysis and expression of the Penicillium chrysogenum nitrate reductase encoding gene (niaD).
abstract: The nitrate reductase gene (niaD) of the filamentous fungus Penicillium chrysogenum encodes a protein of 864 amino acids. The derived protein sequence shows 78% and 72% sequence identity to the corresponding Aspergillus niger and A. nidulans proteins, respectively. The coding region of the Penicillium gene is interrupted by six small introns, as deduced by comparison with the niaD sequences of A. niger and A. nidulans, whereby the positions of the introns are perfectly conserved between these three fungal genes. Northern blot analysis indicated a 2.8 kb transcript and showed that expression of this gene is controlled at the level of mRNA accumulation depending on both induction by nitrate and nitrogen metabolite derepression. Induction of transcription of niaD was found to be paralleled by expression of the major nitrogen regulatory gene nre.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Mikrobiologie (Medizinische Fakultät), Universität Innsbruck, Austria. hubertus.haas@uibk.ac.at
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Haas
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marx
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Graessle
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stöffler
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal / Q000187:drug effects*; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D007438:Introns / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D050901:Nitrate Reductase; D009565:Nitrate Reductases / Q000235:genetics*; D009566:Nitrates / Q000494:pharmacology; D010408:Penicillium chrysogenum / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D012331:RNA, Fungal / Q000032:analysis; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D009566:Nitrates; D012331:RNA, Fungal; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D009565:Nitrate Reductases; D050901:Nitrate Reductase