Journal article
A Dictyostelium morphogen that is essential for stalk cell formation is generated by a subpopulation of prestalk cells
Abstract
The stalk cell differentiation inducing factor (DIF) has the properties required of a morphogen responsible for pattern regulation during the pseudoplasmodial stage of Dictyostelium development. It induces prestalk cell formation and inhibits prespore cell formation, but there is as yet no strong evidence for a morphogenetic gradient of DIF. We have measured DIF accumulation by monolayers of isolated prestalk and prespore cells in an attempt to …
Authors
Kwong L; Xie Y; Daniel J; Robbins SM; Weeks G
Journal
Development, Vol. 110, No. 1, pp. 303–310
Publisher
The Company of Biologists
Publication Date
September 1, 1990
DOI
10.1242/dev.110.1.303
ISSN
0950-1991