New prestalk and prespore inducing signals in Dictyostelium
New prestalk and prespore inducing signals in Dictyostelium
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DOI:
10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.03.023
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发表时间:
2005-06-15
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2.7
通讯作者:
Kay, RR
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作者:
Serafimidis, I;Kay, RR
The differentiation-inducing signals (DIFs) currently known in Dictyostelium appear unable to account for the full diversity of cell types produced in development. To search for new signals, we analyzed the differentiation in monolayers of cells expressing prestalk (ecmAO, ecmA, ecmO, ecmB and cAR2) and prespore (psA) markers. Expression of each marker drops off as the cell density is reduced, suggesting that cell interaction is required. Expression of each marker is inhibited by cerulenin, an inhibitor of polyketide synthesis, and can be restored by conditioned medium. However, the known stalk-inducing polyketide, DIF-1, could not replace conditioned medium and induce the ecmA or cAR2 prestalk markers, suggesting that they require different polyketide inducers. Polyketide production by fungi is stimulated by cadmium ions, which also dramatically stimulates differentiation in Dictyostelium cell cultures and the accumulation of medium factors. Factors produced with cadmium present were extracted from conditioned medium and fractionated by HPLC. A new factor inducing prespore cell differentiation, called PSI-2, and two inducing stalk cell differentiation (DIFs 6 and 7) were resolved. All arc; distinct from currently identified factors. DIF-6, but not DIF-7 or PSI-2, appears to have an essential carbonyl group. Thus Dictyostelium may use extensive polyketide signaling in its development. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.