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Mutations in four genes: sconA (formerly suA25meth, mapA25), sconB (formerly mapBl), sconC and sconD, the last two identified in this work, relieve a group of sulphur amino acid biosynthetic enzymes from methionine-mediated sulphur metabolite repression. Exogenous methionine has no effect on sulphate assimilation in the mutant strains, whereas in the wild type it causes almost complete elimination of sulphate incorporation. In both mutant and wild-type strains methionine is efficiently taken up and metabolized to S-adenosylmethionine, homocysteine and other compounds. scon mutants also show elevated levels of folate-metabolizing enzymes which results from the large pool of homocysteine found in these strains. The folate enzymes apear to be inducible by homocysteine and repressible by methionine (or Sadenosylmethionine).
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Natorff, R., Balińska, M. & Paszewski, A. At least four regulatory genes control sulphur metabolite repression in Aspergillus nidulans . Molec. Gen. Genet. 238, 185–192 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00279546
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