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A Neurospora crassa library, constructed in a derivative of the plasmid pBR322 (pRK9), was used to transform two E. coli ch1D molybdenum cofactor mutants (ch1D, ch1D::Mu). Subsequently, one transformant from each of three independent transformation experiments was restriction mapped. All three transformants had an identical N. crassa DNA insert (4.2 kb). Southern Blot analysis with one of the plasmids (pMoCo, 1:4) showed hybridization to a single band of N. crassa genomic DNA. When pMoCo plasmid (1:4) was used to transform various E. coli nitrate reductase mutants (ch1A, ch1B, ch1C, ch1D, ch1E, ch1G and ch1M), the pMoCo plasmid was capable of restoring E. coli nitrate reductase activity to only the ch1D mutant. In vitro reconstitution experiments using wild-type, ch1D and ch1D; pMoCo cell-free extracts as a source of molybdenum cofactor (MoCo) were performed with the N. crassa MoCo mutants nit-1, nit-7 and nit-8. MoCo from wild-type E. coli cell-free extracts was capable of reconstituting NADPH : nitrate reductase activity to all three N. crassa mutants. MoCo from ch1D; pMoCo cell-free extracts was capable of reconstituting more NADPH : nitrate reductase activity to the N. crassa mutants than cell-free extracts from the original ch1D mutant.
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Stuart Dunn-Coleman, N. Cloning and preliminary characterization of a molybdenum cofactor gene of Neurospora crassa . Curr Genet 8, 589–595 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00395704
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