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Lazarus CM, Küntzel H. Anatomy of amplified mitochondrial DNA in "Ragged" mutants of Aspergillus amstelodami: Excision points within protein genes and a common 215 bp segment containing a possible origin of replication. Curr Genet. 1981;4(2):99-107doi: 10.1007/BF00365688.
Lazarus, C. M., & Küntzel, H. (1981). Anatomy of amplified mitochondrial DNA in "Ragged" mutants of Aspergillus amstelodami: Excision points within protein genes and a common 215 bp segment containing a possible origin of replication. Current genetics, 4(2), 99-107. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00365688
Lazarus, C M, and Küntzel, H. "Anatomy of amplified mitochondrial DNA in "Ragged" mutants of Aspergillus amstelodami: Excision points within protein genes and a common 215 bp segment containing a possible origin of replication." Current genetics vol. 4,2 (1981): 99-107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00365688
Lazarus CM, Küntzel H. Anatomy of amplified mitochondrial DNA in "Ragged" mutants of Aspergillus amstelodami: Excision points within protein genes and a common 215 bp segment containing a possible origin of replication. Curr Genet. 1981 Nov;4(2):99-107. doi: 10.1007/BF00365688. PMID: 24185955.
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Curr Genet. 1981 Nov;4(2):99-107. doi: 10.1007/BF00365688.

Anatomy of amplified mitochondrial DNA in "Ragged" mutants of Aspergillus amstelodami: Excision points within protein genes and a common 215 bp segment containing a possible origin of replication.

Current genetics

C M Lazarus, H Küntzel

Affiliations

  1. Abteilung Chemie, Max-Planck-Institut für experimentelle Medizin, Hermann-Rein-Straße 3, 3400, Göttingen, Germany.

PMID: 24185955 DOI: 10.1007/BF00365688

Abstract

The extranuclearly-inherited ragged growth phenotype (Rgd) of Aspergillus amstelodami is always accompanied by excision and head-to-tail amplification of mtDNA sequences. In one mutant strain (Rgd1) the amplified mtDNA segment (rgd1 DNA, monomeric length 0.9 kb) maps downstream of the large subunit ribosomal RNA gene (Region 1), whereas in all other strains analyzed the amplified sequences (rdg3-7DNA) are located in Region 2 between genes coding for cytochrome b and ATPase subunit 6. The various region 2 sequences differ in lengths (1.5 to 2.7 kb) but have in common a 215 bp sequence mapping between an. unidentified protein gene (corresponding to URF4 of human mtDNA) and an arginine tRNA gene. This common sequence may contain an origin of replication, because a looped-out hairpin structure similar to that of yeast and human mitochondrial origin sequences can be formed. Furthermore, Region 2 DNA suppresses replication of Region 1 DNA, indicating that the former group of molecules contains the more efficient origin. The nucleotide sequence of the rgd6 repeat unit starts and ends within protein genes of mtDNA, and no homologies were found between heads and tails or their flanking sequences.

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