Photoregulation of the Carotenoid Biosynthetic Pathway in Albino and White Collar Mutants of Neurospora crassa
AUTOR(ES)
Harding, Roy W.
RESUMO
The conversion of isopentenyl pyrophosphate to phytoene in Neurospora crassa requires both a soluble and a particulate fraction. Soluble and particulate enzyme fractions obtained from light-treated and dark-grown wild type, albino-1, albino-2, albino-3, and white collar-1 strains were mixed in various combinations, and the activity for conversion of [1-14C]isopentenyl pyrophosphate to phytoene was assayed. From such experiments it can be concluded that: (a) albino-3 is defective in the soluble fraction; (b) albino-2 is defective in the particulate fraction; (c) the in vivo light treatment increases the enzyme activity in the particulate fraction; (d) this light effect occurs in wild type, albino-1, and albino-3 strains; and (e) enzyme activity is present in the particulate fraction obtained from the white collar-1 mutant, but the in vivo light treatment does not cause an increase in this activity. To measure directly the level of particulate enzyme activity, [14C]geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate was used as a substrate. This compound, which is not available commercially, was synthesized enzymically using extracts of pea cotyledons. Particulate enzyme fractions obtained from wild type, albino-1, and albino-3 strains incorporate [14C]geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate into phytoene, and this activity is higher in extracts obtained from light-treated cultures. The particulate fraction obtained from the white collar-1 mutant also incorporates [14C]geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate into phytoene, but the in vivo light treatment does not cause an increase in this activity. No incorporation occurs when particulate fractions obtained from either dark-grown or light-treated albino-2 cultures are assayed. The soluble enzyme fraction obtained from the albino-3 mutant was shown to be almost totally defective in enzyme activity required for the biosynthesis of [14C]geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate from [1-14C]isopentenyl pyrophosphate. An in vivo light treatment increases the level of this activity in wild type, albino-1, albino-2, and albino-3 strains, but not in the white collar-1 mutant. A model is presented to account for all of the results obtained in this investigation. It is proposed that the white collar-1 strain is a regulatory mutant blocked in the light induction process, whereas the albino-1, albino-2, and albino-3 strains are each defective for a different enzyme in the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway.
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