KEI INOUYE
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Volume 17 Issue 2 June 1992 pp 115-127
Patterning in the cellular slime moulds
The aim of the present article is to derive and illustrate in a simple form some of the important concepts in developmental biology. The development of the cellular slime mould
Volume 43 Issue 5 December 2018 pp 1025-1036 Article
Species recognition in social amoebae
IKUMI SHIBANO HAYAKAWA KEI INOUYE
Aggregative multicellularity requires the ability of cells to recognise conspecifics. Social amoebae are among the beststudied of such organisms, but the mechanism and evolutionary background of species recognition remained to beinvestigated. Here we show that heterologous expression of a single Dictyostelium purpureum gene is sufficient for D.discoideum cells to efficiently make chimaeric fruiting bodies with D. purpureum cells. This gene forms a bidirectional pairwith another gene on the D. purpureum genome, and they are both highly polymorphic among independent wild isolates ofthe same mating group that do not form chimaeric fruiting bodies with each other. These paired genes are both structurallysimilar to D. discoideum tgrB1/C1 pair, which is responsible for clonal discrimination within that species, suggesting thatthese tgr genes constitute the species recognition system that has attained a level of precision capable of discriminatingbetween clones within a species. Analysis of the available genome sequences of social amoebae revealed that such genepairs exist only within the clade composed of species that produce precursors of sterile stalk cells (prestalk cells),suggesting concurrent evolution of a precise allorecognition system and a new ‘worker’ cell-type dedicated to transportingand supporting the reproductive cells.
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