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The process of repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) was used to disrupt hsps-1, the gene encoding the major heat-inducible member of the HSP70 family of Neurospora crassa. A plasmid DNA, containing an incomplete copy of hsps-1 and the selectable marker qa-2+, was introduced into germinated conidia. The sexual progeny of transformants with ectopically integrated hsps-1 DNA was examined for RIP by Southern-blot analysis of MboI- and Sau3A-digested genomic DNA. Progeny strains, showing RIP, were tested for heat shock-responsive expression of hsps-1, by RNA-blot hybridization and Western-blot analysis, as well as for thermotolerance. Isolates with RIP showed low levels of hsps-1 mRNA and a lack of induction of HSP70 protein by heat shock, accompanied by only a marginal decrease in the acquisition of thermotolerance.
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Chakraborty, B.N., Ouimet, P.M., Sreenivasan, G.M. et al. Sequence repeat-induced disruption of the major heat-inducible HSP70 gene of Neurospora crassa . Curr Genet 29, 18–26 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00313189
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