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Development, Vol 100, Issue 1 119-124, Copyright © 1987 by Company of Biologists
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JJ Brookman, KA Jermyn and RR Kay
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
The Dictyostelium slug contains a simple anterior-posterior pattern of prestalk and prespore cells. It is likely that DIF, the morphogen which induces stalk cells, is involved in establishing this pattern. Previous work has shown that a number of distinct species of DIF are released by developing cells and that cell-associated DIF activity increases rapidly during the slug stage of development. In this paper we describe a comparison of the DIF extracted from slugs with the DIF released into the medium. Analysis by high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) using different solvent systems shows that the major species of DIF activity extracted from slugs coelutes with DIF-1, the major species of released DIF and is similarly sensitive to sodium borohydride reduction. Since DIF specifically induces the differentiation of prestalk cells, the anterior cells of the slug, it could be anticipated that DIF is localized in the prestalk region. We have therefore determined the distribution of DIF within the slug. Migrating slugs from strain V12M2 were manually dissected into anterior one-third and posterior two-third fragments and the DIF activity extracted. Surprisingly, we found that DIF was not restricted to the prestalk fragment. Instead there appears to be a reverse gradient of DIF in the slug with at least twice the specific activity of total DIF in the prespore region than in the prestalk region.
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