Pheromones are essential for male fertility and sufficient to direct chemotropic polarized growth of trichogynes during mating in Neurospora crassa

Eukaryotic Cell
Hyojeong Kim, Katherine A Borkovich

Abstract

Neurospora crassa is a self-sterile filamentous fungus with two mating types, mat A and mat a. Its mating involves chemotropic polarized growth of female-specific hyphae (trichogynes) toward male cells of the opposite mating type in a process involving pheromones and receptors. mat A cells express the ccg-4 pheromone and the pre-1 receptor, while mat a strains produce mRNA for the pheromone mfa-1 and the pre-2 receptor; MFA-1 and CCG-4 are the predicted ligands for PRE-1 and PRE-2, respectively. In this study, we generated Deltaccg-4 and Deltamfa-1 mutants and engineered a mat a strain to coexpress ccg-4 and its receptor, pre-2. As males, Deltaccg-4 mat A and Deltamfa-1 mat a mutants were unable to attract mat a and mat A trichogynes, respectively, and consequently failed to initiate fruiting body (perithecial) development or produce meiotic spores (ascospores). In contrast, Deltaccg-4 mat a and Deltamfa-1 mat A mutants exhibited normal chemotropic attraction and male fertility. Deltaccg-4 Deltamfa-1 double mutants displayed defective chemotropism and male sterility in both mating types. Heterologous expression of ccg-4 enabled mat a males to attract mat a trichogynes, although subsequent perithecial differentiation did not occ...Continue Reading

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