Souza Cristina A J, Silva Carla C, Ferreira Adlane V-B
Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
Genet Mol Res. 2003 Mar 31;2(1):136-47.
Fungi have been very useful for gene regulation studies. Mating implicates in a series of events influenced by many types of environmental input that are interpreted into regulatory pathways, including signal transduction. Although various aspects of mating and signal transduction in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have long been characterized, recent findings in filamentous fungi indicate that pheromones and pheromone receptors may be essential for mating partner recognition and also for nucleus recognition in sorting before meiosis. A brief overview on mating-type genes of ascomycete fungi and recent contributions to the understanding of their role in the regulation of multicellularity and sexual dimorphism is presented in this review.
真菌在基因调控研究中非常有用。交配涉及一系列受多种环境输入影响的事件，这些事件被解读为调控途径，包括信号转导。尽管酿酒酵母交配和信号转导的各个方面早已得到表征，但丝状真菌的最新研究结果表明，信息素和信息素受体对于识别交配伴侣以及减数分裂前分选过程中的细胞核识别可能至关重要。本文综述了子囊菌交配型基因及其在多细胞性和性别二态性调控中作用的最新研究进展。
