On the Role of Energy Metabolism inNeurosporaCircadian Clock Function
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Chronobiology International
- Vol. 2 (4), 223-233
- https://doi.org/10.3109/07420528509055883
Abstract
Neurospora crassa (bdA) mycelia were kept in liquid culture. Without rhythmic conidiation the levels of adenine nucleotides undergo circadian changes in constant darkness. Maxima occur 12-17 hr and 33-35 hr after initiation of the rhythm, i.e., at CT 0-6 hr. Pulses of metabolic inhibitors such as vanadate (Na3Vo4), molybdate (Na2MoO4: 2 H2O), N-ethylmaleimide (NEM), azide (NaN3), cyanide (NaCN) and oligomycin phase shift the circadian conidiation rhythm of Neurospora crassa. Maximal advance phase shifts are observed at about CT 6 with all inhibitors. Pulses of N,N'dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD) and light phase shift the conidiation rhythm following a phase response curve different from those of the other agents (maximal advance at about CT 18-24). The phase shifts with DCCD and light are significantly larger in the wild type compared to the mitochrondrial mutant poky. Such differences are not found in PRCs of the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide. [31P] NMR spectra of wild type Neurospora crassa and the clock mutants frq 1 and frq 7 which differ in their circadian period lengths did not reveal differences in the concentrations of adenine nucleotides, pyridine nucleotides or sugar phosphates. Starvation causes drastic changes of the levels of adenine nucleotides, phosphate and mobile polyphosphate without effecting phase or period length of the circadian rhythm.Keywords
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