title: Synthesis of a Lectin in Both Mycelia and Fruit Bodies of the Ascomycete Mushroom Aleuria aurantia.
abstract: In several organisms that form fruit bodies, the synthesis of lectins is developmentally regulated. Aleuria aurantia is an ascomycete that forms a fruit body known as orange peel mushroom. To find whether the mycelia of this organism synthesize a lectin, mycelial isolates were obtained from a wild fruit body by spore germination and regeneration from a fragment of the fruit body. The isolates were identified as A. aurantia by analysis of their DNA. The mycelial isolates synthesized a lectin with the same properties as those of fruit-body lectin in terms of subunit molecular mass, immunochemical reactivity, binding specificity for L-fucose, and N-terminal amino acid sequence. Vegetatively growing mycelia synthesized as much lectin as the fruit body, so such synthesis was not developmentally regulated, unlike some other organisms that form fruit bodies.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Bioresources Chemistry, Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.affiliation: a Department of Bioresources Chemistry, Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.affiliation: a Department of Bioresources Chemistry, Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nagao
authors.affiliation: a Department of Bioresources Chemistry, Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohtoshi
authors.affiliation: a Department of Bioresources Chemistry, Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ando
authors.affiliation: a Department of Bioresources Chemistry, Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nagata
keywords: Aleuria aurantia lectin; ascomycete mushroom Aleuria aurantia; lectin synthesis in mycelia