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Mol Cell Biol. 1985 July; 5(7): 1714-1721

Direct and indirect gene replacements in Aspergillus nidulans.

B L Miller, K Y Miller and W E Timberlake

ABSTRACT

We performed three sets of experiments to determine whether cloned DNA fragments can be substituted for homologous regions of the Aspergillus nidulans genome by DNA-mediated transformation. A linear DNA fragment containing a heteromorphic trpC+ allele was used to transform a trpC- strain to trpC+. Blot analysis of DNA from the transformants showed that the heteromorphic allele had replaced the trpC- allele in a minority of the strains. An A. nidulans trpC+ gene was inserted into the argB+ gene, and a linear DNA fragment containing the resultant null argB allele was used to transform a trpC- argB+ strain to trpC+. Approximately 30% of the transformants were simultaneously argB-. The null argB allele had replaced the wild-type allele in a majority of these strains. The A. nidulans SpoC1 C1-C gene was modified by removal of an internal restriction fragment and introduced into a trpC- strain by transformation with a circular plasmid. A transformant containing a tandem duplication of the C1-C region separated by plasmid DNA was self-fertilized, and trpC- progeny were selected. All of these had lost the introduced plasmid DNA sequences, whereas about half had retained the modified C1-C gene and lost the wild-type copy. Thus, it is possible with A. nidulans to replace chromosomal DNA sequences with DNA fragments that have been cloned and modified in vitro by using either one- or two-step procedures similar to those developed for Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Mol Cell Biol. 1985 July; 5(7): 1714-1721




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