Dictyostelium development-socializing through cAMP |
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Authors: | Meima M Schaap P |
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Institution: | Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee, Scotland, DD1 5EH, UK. |
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Abstract: | Starving Dictyostelium amoebae use cAMP as a chemoattractant to gather into aggregates, as a hormone-like signal to induce cell differentiation, and as an intracellular messenger to control stalk- and spore cell maturation and germination of spores. In this chapter we describe the respective roles of the three adenylyl cyclases ACA, ACB and ACG in controlling cAMP signaling during development and we discuss how cAMP signals are processed by the cells to trigger the large repertoire of gene regulatory events that is under control of this signal molecule. |
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Keywords: | Dictyostelium discoideum$l / developmental gene expression / spore germination / adenylyl cyclase / cAMP receptor / protein kinase A |
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