Cell-sorting in aggregates of Dictyostelium discoideum

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3923-3929

  Nicol, Alastair ^a   Rappel, Wouter Jan ^a   Levine, Herbert ^a   Loomis, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agarose overlay; Cell sorting; Dictyostelium; Differential adhesion; Green fluorescent protein; Sorting out; Time lapse microscopy

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SELECTION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; DICTYOSTELIUM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; SEPHAROSE;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GASTROPODA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033489890     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Beug, H., Katz, F. E. and Gerisch, G. (1973). Dynamics in antigenic membrane sites relating to cell aggregation in Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Cell Biol. 56, 647-658.
2. Bonner, J. T. (1967). The Cellular Slime Molds. Second edition. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
3. Bonner, J. T. (1998). A way of following individual cells in the migrating slugs of Dictyostelium discoideum. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 9355-9359.
4. Devreotes, P. (1982). Chemotaxis. In Development of Dictyostelium (ed. W. F. Loomis), pp. 117-168. Acad. Press, San Diego, CA.
5. Doolittle, K. W., Reddy, I. and McNally, J. G. (1995). 3D analysis of cell movement during normal and myosin-II-null cell morphogenesis in Dictyostelium. Dev. Biol. 167, 118-129.
6. Durston, A. J. and Vork, F. (1979). A cinematographical study of the development of vitally stained Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Cell Sci. 36, 261-279.
7. Early, A., Abe, T. and Williams, J. (1995). Evidence for positional differentiation of prestalk cells and for a morphogenetic gradient in Dictyostelium. Cell 83, 91-99.
8. Fosnaugh, K. L. and Loomis, W. F. (1993). Enhancer regions responsible for temporal and cell-type-specific expression of a spore coat gene in Dictyostelium. Dev. Biol. 157, 38-48.
9. Fukui, Y., Yumura, S., Yumura, T. K. and Mori, H. (1986). Agar overlay method: High-resolution immunofluorescence for the study of the contractile apparatus. Meth. Enzymol. 134, 573-580.
10. Gerisch, G. (1980). Univalent antibody fragments as tools for the analysis of cell interactions in Dictyostelium. In Current Topics in Developmental Biology (ed. M. Friedlander), pp. 243-269. Academic Press, New York.
11. Kellerman, K. A. and McNally, J. G. (1999). Mound cell movement and morphogenesis in Dictyostelium. Dev. Biol. 208, 416-429.
12. Loomis, W. F. (1982). The development of Dictyostelium discoideum. Academic Press, New York.
13. Loomis, VV. F. (1988). Cell-cell adhesion in Dictyostelium discoideum. Dev. Genet. 9, 549-559.
14. Muller, K. and Gerisch, G. (1978). A specific glycoprotein as the target site of adhesion blocking Fab in aggregating Dictyostelium cells. Nature 274, 445-449.
15. Nellen, W., Silan, C. and Firtel, R. A. (1984). DNA-mediated transformation in Dictyostelium discoideum: regulated expression of an actin gene fusion. Mol. Cell. Biol. 4, 2890-2898.
16. Raper, K. B. (1940). Pseudoplasmodium formation and organization in Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 56, 241-282.
17. Rappel, W.-J., Nicol, A., Sarkissian, A., Levine, H. and Loomis, W. F. (1999). Self-organized vortex state in two-dimensional Dictyostelium dynamics. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1247-1250.
18. Rietdorf, J., Siegert, F. and Weijer, C. J. (1996). Analysis of optical density wave propagation and cell movement during mound formation in Dictyostelium discoideum. Dev. Biol. 177, 427-438.
19. Siegert, F. and Weijer, C. J. (1995). Spiral and concentric waves organize multicellular Dictyostelium mounds. Curr. Biol. 5, 937-943.
20. Siu, C. H., Des Roches, B. and Lam, T. Y. (1983). Involvement of a cell-surface glycoprotein in the cell-sorting process of Dictyostelium discoideum. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 80, 6596-6600.
21. Stege, J. (1998). The role of tip genes in parallel pathways of Dictyostelium cell sorting and tip formation. PhD thesis, University of California San Diego, CA.
22. Steinberg, M. S. (1970). Does differential adhesion govern self-assembly processes in histogenesis? Equilibrium configurations and the emergence of a hierarchy among populations of embryonic cells. J. Exp. Zool. 173, 395-433.
23. Sukumaran, S., Brown, J. M., Firtel, R. A. and McNally, J. G. (1998). lagC-null and gbf-null cells define key steps in the morphogenesis of Dictyostelium mounds. Dev. Biol. 200, 16-26.
24. Sussman, M. (1987). Cultivation and synchronous morphogenesis of Dictyostelium under controlled experimental conditions. Meth. Cell Biol. 28, 9-29.
25. Wang, B. and Kuspa, A. (1997). Dictyostelium development in the absence of cAMP. Science 277, 251-254.
26. Williams, J. G., Duffy, K. T., Lane, D. P., McRobbie, S. J., Harwood, A. J., Traynor, D., Kay, R. R. and Jermyn, K. A. (1989). Origins of the prestalk-prespore pattern in Dictyostelium development. Cell 59, 1157-1163.