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Development, Vol 119, Issue 3 703-710, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Prestalk cells in monolayer cultures exhibit two distinct modes of cellulose synthesis during stalk cell differentiation in Dictyostelium

L. Blanton R

Stalk formation in Dictyostelium discoideum involves the synthesis of a stalk tube by the prestalk cell population and stalk cell walls by the individual prestalk cells. Cellulose is a major structural component of the stalk tube and stalk cell walls. The DIF-deficient strain HM44 was used to study the events of stalk formation in monolayer cultures. The induction of cellulose synthase activity was shown to require both DIF and cAMP. Microscopical observations of monolayer cultures using the cellulose-indicating fluorochrome Tinopal LPW demonstrated the presence in these cultures of two cellulose-containing materials: the stalk cell walls and an intercellular material found between cells and around cell clumps. The synthesis of intercellular material precedes that of stalk cell walls in induced cultures. Cells committed to stalk cell formation were delayed in doing so if they were switched to medium containing cAMP but no DIF. During this delay the cells synthesized large quantities of the intercellular material. The intercellular material was shown to be microfibrillar, was sensitive to cellulase, and labelled with a colloidal gold-conjugated cellulase. The intercellular material may have the same mode of cellulose synthesis as that involved in stalk tube formation. If so, that mode would be favored by DIF and cAMP in combination, whereas the cellulose synthesis involved in stalk cell wall formation would be DIF-dependent but delayed or repressed by cAMP.


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