title: Characterization of the BLR1 gene encoding a putative blue-light regulator in the phytopathogenic fungus Bipolaris oryzae.
abstract: Bipolaris oryzae is a filamentous ascomycetous fungus that causes brown leaf spot disease in rice. We isolated and characterized BLR1, a gene that encodes a putative blue-light regulator similar to Neurospora crassa white-collar 1 (WC-1). The deduced amino acid sequence of BLR1 showed high degrees of similarity to other fungal blue-light regulator protein. Disruption of the BLR1 gene demonstrated that this gene is essential for conidial development after conidiophore formation and for near-UV radiation-enhanced photolyase gene expression.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, Shimane University, Matsue, Shimane, Japan. j-kihara@life.shimane-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Junichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kihara
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moriwaki
authors.forename: Nozomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ueno
authors.forename: Sakae
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arase
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001203:Ascomycota / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D008027:Light; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins