Regulation of aggregate size and pattern by adenosine and caffeine in cellular slime molds

BACKGROUND: Multicellularity in cellular slime molds is achieved by aggregation of several hundreds to thousands of cells. In the model slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, adenosine is known to increase the aggregate size and its antagonist caffeine reduces the aggregate size. However, it is not cl...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Jaiswal, Pundrik, Soldati, Thierry, Thewes, Sascha, Baskar, Ramamurthy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
Materias:
Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22269093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-12-5

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22269093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-12-5

Ejemplares similares