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Eukaryotic Cell, April 2002, p. 273-280, Vol. 1, No. 2
1535-9778/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/EC.1.2.273-280.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Distinct Signaling Pathways from the Circadian Clock Participate in Regulation of Rhythmic Conidiospore Development in Neurospora crassa

Alejandro Correa and Deborah Bell-Pedersen*

Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843

Received 30 November 2001/ Accepted 23 January 2002

Several different environmental signals can induce asexual spore development (conidiation) and expression of developmentally regulated genes in Neurospora crassa. However, under constant conditions, where no environmental cues for conidiation are present, the endogenous circadian clock in N. crassa promotes daily rhythms in expression of known developmental genes and of conidiation. We anticipated that the same pathway of gene regulation would be followed during clock-controlled conidiation and environmental induction of conidiation and that the circadian clock would need only to control the initial developmental switch. Previous experiments showed that high-level developmental induction of the clock-controlled genes eas (ccg-2) and ccg-1 requires the developmental regulatory proteins FL and ACON-2, respectively, and normal developmental induction of fl mRNA expression requires ACON-2. We demonstrate that the circadian clock regulates rhythmic fl gene expression and that fl rhythmicity requires ACON-2. However, we find that clock regulation of eas (ccg-2) is normal in an fl mutant strain and ccg-1 expression is rhythmic in an acon-2 mutant strain. Together, these data point to the endogenous clock and the environment following separate pathways to regulate conidiation-specific gene expression.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843. Phone: (979) 847-9237. Fax: (979) 845-2891. E-mail: dpedersen{at}mail.bio.tamu.edu.

Eukaryotic Cell, April 2002, p. 273-280, Vol. 1, No. 2
1535-9778/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/EC.1.2.273-280.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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