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Development, Vol 105, Issue 3 657-664, Copyright © 1989 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Re-expression of 117 antigen, a cell surface glycoprotein of aggregating cells, during terminal differentiation of Dictyostelium discoideum prespore cells

LH Browne, H Sadeghi, D Blumberg, KL Williams and C Klein
School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia.

117 antigen is a glycoprotein expressed on the surface of D. discoideum cells at aggregation. It then disappears and is later re-expressed on the surface of a subpopulation of cells at culmination, the terminal differentiation stage (Sadeghi et al. 1987). A cDNA clone was used to show that the appearance of cell surface 117 antigen accurately reflects the expression of the 117 gene as measured by mRNA levels. It was also shown that during multicellular development there is a reciprocal relationship between the levels of 117 mRNA and the mRNA which codes for prespore surface glycoprotein, PsA. Dual parameter flow cytometry was used to demonstrate that the 117 antigen is found on the surface of maturing prespore cells after the PsA glycoprotein disappears, but that it is not found on mature spores. Using three monoclonal antibodies which identify respectively 117 antigen, PsA, and MUD3 antigen (a spore coat glycoprotein--probably Sp96), two new stages of final spore maturation were defined. These results indicate that there is a recapitulation of at least one aggregative cell surface glycoprotein in the prespore subpopulation of cells as they rise up the stalk during final spore development. This raises the possibility that culmination, which involves complex three dimensional morphogenetic movements not unlike those observed during animal embryogenesis, involves components of the two-dimensional pattern seen during aggregation.


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