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Genetics, Vol. 155, 657-669, June 2000, Copyright © 2000

Co-expression of the Mating-Type Genes Involved in Internuclear Recognition Is Lethal in Podospora anserina

Evelyne Coppina and Robert Debuchya
a Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, UMR 8621 CNRS-Université Paris Sud, F-91405 Orsay, France

Corresponding author: Evelyne Coppin, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Bâtiment 400, Université Paris Sud, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France., coppin{at}igmors.u-psud.fr (E-mail)

Communicating editor: P. J. PUKKILA

In the heterothallic filamentous fungus Podospora anserina, four mating-type genes encoding transcriptional factors have been characterized: FPR1 in the mat+ sequence and FMR1, SMR1, and SMR2 in the alternative mat- sequence. Fertilization is controlled by FPR1 and FMR1. After fertilization, male and female nuclei, which have divided in the same cell, form mat+/mat- pairs during migration into the ascogenous hyphae. Previous data indicate that the formation of mat+/mat- pairs is controlled by FPR1, FMR1, and SMR2. SMR1 was postulated to be necessary for initial development of ascogenous hyphae. In this study, we investigated the transcriptional control of the mat genes by seeking mat transcripts during the vegetative and sexual phase and fusing their promoter to a reporter gene. The data indicate that FMR1 and FPR1 are expressed in both mycelia and perithecia, whereas SMR1 and SMR2 are transcribed in perithecia. Increased or induced vegetative expression of the four mat genes has no effect when the recombined gene is solely in the wild-type strain. However, the combination of resident FPR1 with deregulated SMR2 and overexpressed FMR1 in the same nucleus is lethal. This lethality is suppressed by the expression of SMR1, confirming that SMR1 operates downstream of the other mat genes.




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