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Richard Pokorný1, Peter Vargovic, Udo Hölker
1Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 81237-Bratislava, Slovakia.
Abstract:
The expression of glutamic acid decarboxylase gene and the laccase activity were measured during the development of surface-cultivated Trichoderma viride mycelia in order to examine their up-regulation by light. The results show that the changes in activity of GAD induced by light observed previously are caused by transcriptional regulation of gad gene expression in both submerged mycelia and aerial mycelia after photoinduction. The expression of tga gene encoding a T. viride G(alpha) protein was found not to be up-regulated by light and was also present in the non-conidiating mutant of T. viride suggesting that this protein is not involved in the regulation of conidiation in this fungus, or that it plays a role is in later stages of conidia development. The activity of laccase was also not light-inducible and may be related to the maturation of conidia.
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