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Development, Vol 117, Issue 4 1299-1308, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists
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T Ozaki, H Nakao, H Orii, T Morio, I Takeuchi and M Tasaka
Division of Biochemistry, Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute, Japan.
The Dp87 is a novel prespore specific gene of Dictyostelium discoideum which has a long open reading frame of 555 amino acids. The entire amino acid sequence had low but significant homology to the spore coat proteins, SP96 and SP70, of this organism. When a chimeric gene, containing a 1380 bp of the 5' upstream region of this gene fused with CAT gene, as reporter, was introduced into cells of this organism, it was expressed only in prespore cells of the slug. Transformation experiments, using chimeric genes, containing a series of 5' deletions of the upstream region, showed that -447 bp to -357 bp is an important cis-acting regulatory region for transcription. A nuclear factor(s) that specifically bind to this cis-acting region were detected from slug cell nuclei. Transformation experiments using a chimeric gene consisting of the 5' region between -666 bp and +149 bp of this gene, a beta-galactosidase reporter and an actin 8 terminator, showed that the reporter gene was expressed as early as in aggregation streams, indicating that Dp87 become transcribed a few hours earlier than the other prespore-specific genes so far reported. This was confirmed by northern hybridization detected using an image plate analyzer. The fact that cells expressing Dp87 appeared at random in aggregation streams gives solid support to the idea that position-independent differentiation of prespore and prestalk cells, followed by their sorting, brings about pattern formation in this organism.
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