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Auxanography and growth kinetics of a leucine and phenylalaninerequiring strain of Aspergillus nidulans reveals that (a) a phenylalanine-requiring strain is competitively inhibited by leucine but a leucine-requiring strain is not inhibited by phenylalanine, (b) the molar ratio of the two amino acids is critical for inhibition, and (c) leucine is specific for the possible replacement of phenylalanine.
Failure to isolate a leucine-resistant phenylalanine-auxotroph suggests that the competition between these two amino acids does not take place at the coding level. By mitotic and meiotic analysis the mutant fpaB37 has been located on the left arm of linkage group I and has been found to be distinct and different from the locus trypB.
Interactions between p-fluorophenylllanine-resistance and amino acid requirements and uptake experiments indicate that there are at least two sites for which leucine competes with phenylalanine-one of them being the site of entry of these essential amino acids into the mycelium. Both of these interaction sites are common for leucine, phenylalanine and p-fluorophenylalanine.
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Sinha, U. Competition between leucine and phenylalanine and its relation to p-fluorophenylalanine resistant mutations in Aspergillus nidulans . Archiv. Mikrobiol. 72, 308–317 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00409029
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