Abstract
The total proteins and concanavalin A-binding glycoproteins of the cultivated mushroom Agrocybe aegerita were studied in homokaryotic siblings and in dikaryotic strains. The glycoproteins exhibited considerable variability compared with the proteins; the genetic diversity detected in homokaryons in the glycoprotein analysis was 30-fold higher than the genetic diversity revealed by protein analysis, and the glycoprotein patterns could be used to characterize individual genotypes. We found that the expression of glycoproteins in haploid nuclei was significantly asymmetric when the nuclei were paired in dikaryons. The expression levels of the two component nuclei depended on their genotypes, and each haploid nucleus was characterized by its level of expression. Furthermore, some specific glycoproteins that were not detected in all of the homokaryons were newly synthesized in the dikaryotic strains. Among these was a glycoprotein designated gpAa-65, which was identified in all of the dikaryotic strains and appeared to be a good molecular marker of the dikaryotic state.
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