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  • Title: Identification of the gene at the pmg locus, encoding system II, the general amino acid transporter in Neurospora crassa.
    Author: Margolis-Clark E, Hunt I, Espinosa S, Bowman BJ.
    Journal: Fungal Genet Biol; 2001 Jul; 33(2):127-35. PubMed ID: 11456465.
    Abstract:
    Mutations at the pmg locus in Neurospora crassa cause a deficiency in a transport system for a broad range of amino acids. We have isolated a gene that encodes a protein with a high degree of sequence similarity to the GAP1 general amino acid permease in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Our data indicate that this is the gene at the pmg locus. It encodes a 572-residue protein with a molecular mass of 62,649 Da. The predicted secondary structure has 12 membrane-spanning regions, a feature characteristic of a superfamily of permease proteins. Inactivation of the gene yielded a mutant strain with the same phenotype as the pmg- strain, and a cosmid containing a functional copy of the gene rescued the pmg- strain. Although the pmg- strain has previously been assayed in a genetic background that contains mutations in genes for two other amino acid transport systems, we have found conditions in which the pmg- strain has an identifiable phenotype in an otherwise wild-type genetic background.
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