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Medical AI Inquiry: You was designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.  Labels: OBJECTIVE, RESULTS. Meshes: Amino Acid Sequence, Amino Acid Substitution, Benomyl, Benzimidazoles, Cloning, Molecular, DNA, Circular, DNA, Fungal, Drug Resistance, Fungal, Gene Expression, Histidine, Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Transformation, Genetic, Trichoderma, Tubulin, Tyrosine.
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Does homologous expression of a mutated beta-tubulin gene confer benomyl resistance on Trichoderma virens? Context: To clone the beta-tubulins and to induce resistance to benzimidazoles in the biocontrol fungus Trichoderma virens through site-directed mutagenesis. Two beta-tubulin genes have been cloned using PCR amplification followed by the screening of a T. virens cDNA library. The full-length cDNA clones, coding for 445 and 446 amino acids, have been designated as T. virens tub1 and T. virens tub2. A sequence alignment of these two tubulins with tubulins from other filamentous fungi has shown the presence of some unique amino acid sequences not found in those positions in other beta-tubulins. Constitutive expression of the tub2 gene with a histidine to tyrosine substitution at position 6 (known to impart benomyl/methyl benzimadazol-2-yl carbamate resistance in other fungi), under the Pgpd promoter of Aspergillus nidulans, did not impart resistance to benomyl.
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The homologous expression of tub2 gene with a histidine to tyrosine mutation at position +6, which is known to impart benomyl tolerance in other fungi, does not impart resistance in T. virens. Final Decision: no