RRC ID 29011
著者 Brock DA, Gomer RH.
タイトル A cell-counting factor regulating structure size in Dictyostelium.
ジャーナル Genes Dev
Abstract Developing Dictyostelium cells form large aggregation streams that break up into groups of 0.2 x 10(5) to 1 x 10(5) cells. Each group then becomes a fruiting body. smlA cells oversecrete an unknown factor that causes aggregation streams to break up into groups of approximately 5 x 10(3) cells and thus form very small fruiting bodies. We have purified the counting factor and find that it behaves as a complex of polypeptides with an effective molecular mass of 450 kD. One of the polypeptides is a 40-kD hydrophilic protein we have named counting. In transformants with a disrupted counting gene, there is no detectable secretion of counting factor, and the aggregation streams do not break up, resulting in huge (up to 2 x 10(5) cell) fruiting bodies.
巻・号 13(15)
ページ 1960-9
公開日 1999-8-1
DOI 10.1101/gad.13.15.1960
PMID 10444594
PMC PMC316923
MeSH Amino Acid Sequence Animals Base Sequence Cell Aggregation Cell Count Cloning, Molecular Culture Media, Conditioned Dictyostelium / cytology* Dictyostelium / genetics Dictyostelium / growth & development* Molecular Sequence Data Molecular Weight Mutation Phenotype Protein Sorting Signals / genetics Protozoan Proteins / chemistry Protozoan Proteins / genetics Protozoan Proteins / isolation & purification Protozoan Proteins / metabolism* RNA, Messenger / genetics RNA, Messenger / metabolism Sequence Analysis Signal Transduction
IF 9.527
引用数 93
WOS 分野 GENETICS & HEREDITY CELL BIOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
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細胞性粘菌 S00324