Summary
Spore maturation occurs during normal development in when environmental influences induce a migrating slug a fruiting body. As the amoeboid prespore cells turn spores there is a burst of enzyme accumulation, epimerase, and at a later stage the exocytosis of of the spore coat. Evidence is presented here that triggered by an elevated intracellular cAMP number of rapidly developing (rde) mutants, whose cAMP been investigated previously, are shown to be able to submerged monolayers, whereas wild-type strains are of these mutants are best explained by a derepression transduction pathway utilizing intracellular cAMP. direct, it is shown that the permeant cAMP analogues