Possible mechanisms of indoleamine-induced encystment in dinoflagellates

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 21, Issue , 1996, Pages 7-13

  Wong, Joseph T Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249153840     PISSN: 03013073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Hastings JW: Unicellular clocks. Annu Rev Microbiol 1959;13:297-312.
2. Hastings JW, Sweeney BM: On the mechanisms of temperature independence in a biological clock. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1957;43:804-811.
3. Balzer I, Hardeland R: Stimulation of bioluminescence by 5-methoxylated indoleamines in the dinoflagellate, Gonyaulax polyedra. Comp Biochem Physiol 1991;980:395-397.
4. Balzer I, Hardeland R: Photoperiodism and effects of indoleamines in a unicellular alga, Gonyaulax polyedra. Science 1991;253:795-797.
5. Balzer I, Pöggeler B, Hardeland R: 5-Methoxylated indoleamines in the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra: Presence, stimulation of bioluminescence, and circadian variations in responsiveness. Eur J Cell Biol 1990;51(suppl 30):52.
6. Balzer I, Pöggeler B, Hardeland R: Circadian rhythms of indoleamines in a dinoflagellate, Gonyaulax polyedra: Persistence of melatonin rhythms in constant darkness and relationship to 5-methoxytryptamine; in Touitou Y, Arendt J, Pévet P (eds): Melatonin and the Pineal Gland: from Basic Science to Clinical Application. Amsterdam, Excerpta Medica, 1993, pp 183-196.
7. Pöggeler B, Blazer I, Hardeland R, Lerchl A: Pineal hormone melatonin oscillates also in the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra. Naturwissenschaften 1991;78:268-269.
8. Anderson DM, Chisholm SW, Watras CJ: Importance of life cycle events in the population dynamics of Gonyaulax tamarensis. Mar Biol 1983;76:179-189.
9. Morrill LC:. Ecdysis, location of the plasma membrane in the dinoflagellate Heterocapsa niei. Protoplasma 1984;119:8-20.
10. Hardeland R: Induction of cyst formation by low temperature in the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra Stein: Dependence on circadian phase and requirement of light. Experientia 1994;50: 60-62.
11. Wong JTY, Wong YH: Indoleamines induced encystment in dinoflagellates. J Mar Biol Ass UK 1994;74:467-469.
12. Tsim ST, Yung LY, Wong JTY, Wong YH: Possible involvement of G proteins in indoleamine-induced encystment in dinoflagellates. Mol Mar Bio Biotech 1996;in press.
13. Hardeland R, Balzer I, Pöggeler B, Fuhrberg B, Uria H, Behrmann G, Wolf R, Meyer J, Reiter RJ: On the primary functions of melatonin in evolution: Mediation of photoperiodic signals in a unicell, photooxidation, and scavenging of free radicals. J Pineal Res 1995;18:104-111.
14. Ebisawa T, Karne S, Lerner ML, Reppert SM: Expression cloning of a high-affinity melatonin receptor from Xenopus dermal melanophores. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1994;91:6133-6137.
15. Reppert SM, Weaver DR, Ebisawa T: Cloning and characterization of a mammalian melatonin receptor that mediates reproductive and circadian responses. Neuron 1994;13:1177-1185.
16. 125I]iodomelatonin binding sites in hamster brain membranes: Pharmacological characteristics and regional distribution. Endocrinology 1988;122: 1825-1833.
17. Sugden D: Aggregation of pigment granules in single culture Xenopus laevis melanophores by melatonin analogues. Br J Pharmacol 1991;104:922-927.
18. 125I]iodomelatonin binding site. J Neurochem 1995;64:1892-1895.
19. Cardinali DP, Bonanni RRA, Mediavilla MD, Sanchez-Barcelo E: Diurnal changes in cyclic nucleotide response to pineal indoles in murine mammary glands. J Pineal Res 1992;13:111-116.
20. o by mastoparan, related amphilic peptides, and hydrophobic amines: Mechanism and structure determinations of activity. J Biol Chem 1990;265:14176-14188.
21. Higashijima T, Uzu S, Nakajima T, Ross EM: Mastoparan, a peptide toxin from wasp venom, mimics receptors by activating GTP-binding regulatory protein (G proteins). J Biol Chem 1988; 263:6491-6494.
22. Quarmby LM, Yueh YG, Cheshire JL, Keller LR, Snell WJ, Crain RC: Inositol phospholipid metabolism may trigger flagellar excision in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J Cell Biol 1992;116: 737-744.
23. Tsim ST, Wong JTY, Wong YH: Effects of dibutyryl cAMP and bacterial toxins on indoleamine-induced encystment of dinoflagellates. Biol Signal 1996;in press.
24. Becker-Andre M, Wiesenberg I, Schaeren-Wiemers N, Andre E, Missbach M, Sayrat J, Carlberg C: Pineal gland hormone melatonin binds and activates an oprhan of the nuclear receptor superfamily. J Biol Chem 1994;269:28531-28534.
25. Morse D, Fitz L, Hastings JW: What is the clock? Translational regulation of bioluminescence. Trends Biochem 1990;15:262-265.
26. 1 on bioluminescence in Gonyaulax polyedra; in Hardeland (ed): Cellular Rhythms and Indoleamines. Göttingen, University of Göttingen, 1995, pp 99-105.
27. + exchange in acidic vacuoles of Trypanosoma cruzi. Biochem J 1994;304:227-233.
28. 2+ storage in acidocalcisomes of Trypanosoma cruzi. Biochem J 1995;310:1005-1012.
29. +-ATPase of plant cells. Ann NY Acad Sci 1989; 574:180-188.
30. Voyno-Yasenetskaya T, Conklin BR, Gilbert RL, Hooley R, Bourne HR, Barber DL: Gα13 stimulates Na-H exchange. J Biol Chem 1994;269:4721-4724.
31. Zeuzem S, Feick P, Zimmermann P, Haase W, Kahn RA, Schultz I: Intravesicular acidification correlates with binding of ADP-ribosylation factor to microsomal membranes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1992;89:6619-6623.
32. Cuppoletti J, Chernyak V, Huang P, Malinowska DH: Structure-function relationship in the interaction of amphipathic helical polypeptides with gastric H/K ATPase. Ann NY Acad Sci 1992;671: 443-445.
33. Hardeland R: Formation of asexual cysts in Alexandrium lusitanicum in response to 5-methoxytryptamine or melatonin; in Hardeland (ed): Cellular Rhythms and Indoleamines. Göttingen, University of Göttingen, 1995, pp 81-84.
34. Hardeland R: Differences in the responsiveness of dinoflagellates to 5-methoxylated indoleamines: Ceratium horridum does not encyst in response to melatonin or 5-methoxytryptamine; in Hardeland (ed): Cellular Rhythms and Indoleamines. Göttingen, University of Göttingen, 1995, pp 85-87.