Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-19-2010
Publication Title
Eukaryotic Cell
Department
Geisel School of Medicine
Abstract
In plants and animals, cryptochromes function as either photoreceptors or circadian clock components. We have examined the cryptochrome from the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa and demonstrate that Neurospora cry encodes a DASH-type cryptochrome that appears capable of binding flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and methenyltetrahydrofolate (MTHF). The cry transcript and CRY protein levels are strongly induced by blue light in a wc-1-dependent manner, and cry transcript is circadianly regulated, with a peak abundance opposite in phase to frq. Neither deletion nor overexpression of cry appears to perturb the free-running circadian clock. However, cry disruption knockout mutants show a small phase delay under circadian entrainment. Using electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA), we show that CRY is capable of binding single- and double-stranded DNA (ssDNA and dsDNA, respectively) and ssRNA and dsRNA. Whole-genome microarray experiments failed to identify substantive transcriptional regulatory activity of cry under our laboratory conditions.
DOI
10.1128/EC.00380-09
Original Citation
Froehlich AC, Chen CH, Belden WJ, Madeti C, Roenneberg T, Merrow M, Loros JJ, Dunlap JC. Genetic and molecular characterization of a cryptochrome from the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Eukaryot Cell. 2010 May;9(5):738-50. doi: 10.1128/EC.00380-09. Epub 2010 Mar 19. PMID: 20305004; PMCID: PMC2863965.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Froehlich, Allan C.; Chen, Chen-Hui; Belden, William J.; and Madeti, Cornelia, "Genetic and Molecular Characterization of a Cryptochrome from the Filamentous Fungus Neurospora Crassa" (2010). Dartmouth Scholarship. 824.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/824
