Three steps in prespore differentiationin Dictyostelium discoideum with different requirements of cellular interaction
Three steps in prespore differentiationin Dictyostelium discoideum with different requirements of cellular interaction
复制标题
盘基网柄菌前孢子分化的三个步骤对细胞相互作用的不同要求
DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-0436.1990.tb00540.x
复制
发表时间:
1990
期刊:
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
K. Okamoto
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Y. Yamada;K. Okamoto
Abstract Extracellular cAMP and a secreted factors have been known to be involved in prespore differentiation of Dictyostelium discoideum. Here we show that cAMP, a secreted factor(s) and some other interactions are required for prespore differentiation and that they work in completely different periods; a secreted factor(s) and other interactions are required only in the stages earlier than the cAMP-dependent stage. According to the results the process of prespore differentiation can be dissected into three sequential stages, stage I, II and III. The processes in stage I and II depend on high cell density. The requirement for high cell density in stage II could be replaced with a secreted factor(s) in conditioned medium, whereas it could not in stage I. The factor(s) in conditioned medium does not appear to be cAMP, ammonia, or methionine. In contrast to these two stages, the process in stage III, the last stage, proceeds even at low cell density if cAMP is supplied, where other interactions would be negligible. Therefore cells that have proceeded to the end of stage II are considered to have acquired a competence to differentiate to prespore cells without further cellular interactions other than cAMP. cAMP pulses are not essential for the processes of any stage of prespore differentiation, since they proceed in the presence of caffeine, an inhibitor of cAMP pulse production, or in a mutant strain (Frigid A) which is deficient in cAMP relay systems.
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.84.4.1030
发表时间:
1987
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Chisholm,RL;Hopkinson,S;Lodish,HF
通讯作者:
Lodish,HF