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The SDS-insoluble protein fraction of fruiting bodies was solubilized with trifluoroacetic acid. On SDS-PAGE this fraction was found to contain one abundant protein with an apparent of 16 kDa. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of this protein was determined and RT-PCR used to isolate a cDNA clone which upon sequencing identified the protein as a typical class I hydrophobin (ABH1). The gene () was isolated and sequenced, and a second hydrophobin gene () was found about 2.5 kbp downstream of . Purified ABH1 self-assembled at hydrophobic-hydrophilic interfaces, producing the typical rodlet layer known from other hydrophobins. Similar rodlets were observed on the surface of the fruiting body, while immunological localization showed the hydrophobin to be particularly abundant at the outer surface of fruiting bodies, in the veil and in the core tissue of the stipe. Transcripts of were found only in fruiting-body hyphae. The ABH1 hydrophobin is probably solely responsible for the hydrophobicity of the fruiting-body surface but may also line air channels within fruiting bodies.

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