Separation and properties of prestalk and prespore cells of Dictyostelium discoideum |
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Authors: | Adrian Tsang Jane M Bradbury |
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Institution: | Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Mill Hill Laboratories, London, NW7 1AD, UK |
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Abstract: | We describe a method of separating prestalk and prespore cells of Dictyostelium discoideum slugs using a self-generating Percoll gradient. This method gives quantitative recovery of cells and good purity. Separated prestalk and prespore cells possess different levels of the enzymes UDP galactose :polysaccharide transferase, cAMP phosphodiesterase and glycogen phosphorylase. We have used this method, as well as mechanical dissection of slugs, to examine the fate of separated prestalk and prespore cells in Dictyostelium strains that are able to give rise to mature stalk and spore cells in cell monolayers. The results from such experiments provide direct evidence that prestalk and prespore cells from the migrating slug stage are programmed to differentiate into stalk and spore cells respectively. |
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