Genetics of early Dictyostelium discoideum development.
Genetics of early Dictyostelium discoideum development.
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早期盘基网柄菌发育的遗传学。
DOI:
10.1128/mr.52.1.29-49.1988
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1988
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Kessin,RH
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Dictyostelium amoebae feed on bacteria and divide by binary fission as long as their prey is available. Once their food is exhausted or removed, the cells begin development and synthesize new macromolecules that give them the ability to move toward sourcesof cyclic adenosine 3', 5'-phosphate (cAMP). All of the apparatus required for recog-nizing cAMP and moving up a concentration gradient, including the cAMPreceptor (106, 130, 131), extracellular cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (97, 126, 185), adenyl-ate cyclase (60, 127, 205), andcAMP secretory apparatus, are produced de novo (144). During their migration into centers of aggregation, the cells become adhesive, and once assembled, they unleash a large number of new transcripts, products of which are responsible for further differentiation into spore and stalk cells (8, 21, 38, 138). There is good evidence that chemotaxis toward cAMP, first used during aggregation, is retained to direct the cells during the later stages of development when complex movements lead to the formation ofa migrating slug and then to a fruiting body (120, 220). Dictyostelium cells have invented the strategem of coordinating the expression of their genes and morphogenesis by connecting a cell surface cAMP receptor to their sensory and motility apparatus and to the second messenger cascades which they use for gene regulation. Extracellular cAMP, therefore, has immediate effects on chemotaxis and motility and more delayed but crucial effects on gene regulation.