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Dark grown mycelial cells of Neurospora crassa bearing mutant genes crisp-I or frost and having a decreased level of cyclic adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate contained more carotenoid pigments than the cells with wild alleles of these genes. A transient decrease of the cyclic AMP occurred following photoinduction of carotenoid synthesis during its lag-period. Its intensity correlated with the increase of carotenoid pigment level due to photoinduction. No correlation in the content of cyclic guanosine 5′-phosphate with both constitutive level of carotenoids and its photoinduced increase was observed.
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Kritsky, M.S., Sokolovsky, V.Y., Belozerskaya, T.A. et al. Relationship between cyclic AMP level and accumulation of carotenoid pigments in Neurospora crassa . Arch. Microbiol. 133, 206–208 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00415002
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