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Nitrogen metabolite repression of nitrate reductase in Neurospora crassa: effect of the gln-1a locus.

N S Dunn-Coleman·A B Tomsett·R H Garrett
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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (reduced form)-nitrate reductase was freed from ammonium repression in a Neurospora crassa mutant having drastically lowered glutamine synthetase activity, gln-1a. The general phenomenon of nitrogen metabolite repression required glutamine or some aspect of glutamine metabolism.

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Enzyme RepressionGenesGlutamate-Ammonia LigaseGlutamineMutationNeurosporaNeurospora crassaNitrate ReductasesJournal ArticleResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

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N S Dunn-Coleman, A B Tomsett, R H Garrett. 1979. Nitrogen metabolite repression of nitrate reductase in Neurospora crassa: effect of the gln-1a locus.. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.139.2.697-700.1979

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