title: Hydrophobin genes and their expression in conidial and aconidial Neurospora species.
abstract: Homologs of the gene encoding the hydrophobin EAS from Neurospora crassa have been identified both in the other conidial species of Neurospora (N. discreta, N. intermedia, N. sitophila, and N. tetrasperma) and selected aconidial species (N. africana, N. dodgei, N. lineolata, N. pannonica, and N. terricola). Southern blot analysis indicated the presence of a single gene in all species examined. EAS-like proteins were purified from the conidial species and each was shown to be the proteolytically processed gene-product of the corresponding eas homolog. While EAS-like proteins were not detected in the aconidial species, putative eas transcripts were detected in some isolates following RT-PCR and the aerial hyphae of these species were hydrophobic. DNA sequences of the coding region of the eas homologs were amplified by PCR and cloned and sequenced from all species except N. pannonica. Phylogenetic analysis of these sequences produced two clusters, the first comprising the conidiating species N. crassa, N. intermedia, N. sitophila, and N. tetrasperma forming a closely related group with N. discreta more distant, and the second comprising the aconidial species N. africana, N. dodgei, N. lineolata forming another closely related group with N. terricola more distant.
authors.affiliation: The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Ltd, Private Bag 92-169, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Winefield
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hilario
authors.forename: Ross E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Beever
authors.forename: Richard G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Haverkamp
authors.forename: Matthew D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Templeton
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009491:Neurospora / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010802:Phylogeny; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013045:Species Specificity; D013172:Spores, Fungal
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins