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Light dependence of sexual agglutinability in Chlamydomonas eugametos
Authors:R. Kooijman  T. J. M. Elzenga  P. de Wildt  A. Musgrave  F. Schuring  H. van den Ende
Affiliation:(1) Department of Plant Physiology, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, 1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract:The mating activity of mating-type plus gametes of Chlamydomonas eugametos depends on light. Cells lost their ability to agglutinate with mating-type minus gametes after a dark period of 30 min. They regained their agglutinability after 10 min exposure to light. Other mating reactions, such as tipping and flagellar tip activation, were not dependent upon light. Since cycloheximide and tunicamycin did not affect the light-induced activation of flagellar agglutinability, no protein synthesis or glycosylation is involved in this process. Equal amounts of biologically active agglutination factor could be extracted from cells placed either in light or in darkness. A minor portion of the active material was found to be located on the flagellar surface of illuminated cells. No active material was found on the flagellar surface of dark-exposed cells, whereas their cell bodies contained the same amount of active material as the cell bodies of illuminated cells. Since a light-induced flow of agglutination factors from the cell body to the flagella could not be detected and dark-exposed cells could be slightly activated by amputation or fixation by glutaraldehyde, we propose that light affects flagellar agglutinability by an in-situ modification of the agglutination factor on the flagella. When mt+ and mt- strains were crossed and the progeny examined for light-sensitivity, it was apparent that this phenomenon is not mating type-linked.Abbreviations and symbols FTA flagellar tip activation - mt+/- mating type plus or minus - WGA wheat-germ agglutinin
Keywords:Agglutination (flagellum)  Chlamydomonas  Flagellum  Light (flagellar agglutination)  Sexuality (algal)
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