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Development, Vol 120, Issue 10 2847-2855, Copyright © 1994 by Company of Biologists

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The 'prespore-like cells' of Dictyostelium have ceased to express a prespore gene: analysis using short-lived beta-galactosidases as reporters

S Detterbeck, P Morandini, B Wetterauer, A Bachmair, K Fischer and HK MacWilliams
Zoologisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munchen, Germany.

In transgenic strains of Dictyostelium discoideum that express beta-galactosidase under the control of a prespore-specific promoter, only early slugs show reporter confined to the prespore zone. As slugs migrate beta-galactosidase-positive cells accumulate in the prestalk zone; ultimately, there may be so many that the prestalk-prespore boundary is no longer distinguishable (Harwood, A., Early, A., Jermyn, K. and Williams, J. (1991) Differentiation 46, 7-13). It is not clear whether these 'anomalous' reporter-positive cells currently express prespore genes; another possibility is that they are ex-prespore cells that have transformed to prestalk and sorted to the prestalk zone (Sternfeld, J. (1993) Roux Archiv. Dev. Biol. 201, 354-363), while retaining their previously produced reporter. To test the activity of the prespore genes in these cells, we have made prespore reporter constructs whose products decay quickly; these are based on constructs used to investigate protein turnover in yeast (Bachmair, A., Finley, D. and Varshavsky, A. (1986) Science 234, 179-186). In strains bearing such constructs, beta-galactosidase-positive cells do not appear in the prestalk zone. The apparent deterioration of the prestalk/prespore pattern in older slugs is thus an artefact of reporter stability.


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