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GenePath: a System for Automated Construction of Genetic Networks from Mutant Data [PDF]

, 2003
Motivation: Genetic pathways are often used in the analysis of biological phenomena. In classical genetics, they are constructed manually from experimental data on mutants. The field lacks formalism to guide such analysis, and accounting for all the data
Bratko, Ivan, Demšar, Janez, Halter, John, Juvan, Peter, Kuspa, Adam, Shaulsky, Gad, Zupan, Blaz   +6 more
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Production of antibacterial compounds by a Steely hybrid polyketide synthase in Dictyostelium

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
By selecting appropriate production species under optimised culture conditions, new chlorinated dibenzofuran compounds, which previously could not be analysed in sufficient quantities, were identified from cellular slime mould fruiting bodies. The strong antibacterial activity exhibited by these compounds suggests a link to the ecological function of ...
Tomoaki R. Yamashita, Toyonobu Usuki, Robert R. Kay, Tamao Saito   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification and recombinant expression of anandamide hydrolyzing enzyme from Dictyostelium discoideum

BMC Microbiology, 2012
Background Anandamide (Arachidonoyl ethanolamide) is a potent bioactive lipid studied extensively in humans, which regulates several neurobehavioral processes including pain, feeding and memory.
Neelamegan Dhamodharan, Schoenhofen Ian C, Richards James C, Cox Andrew D   +3 more
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Insights on Microsatellite Characteristics, Evolution, and Function From the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
Microsatellites are repetitive sequences commonly found in the genomes of higher organisms. These repetitive sequences are prone to expansion or contraction, and when microsatellite expansion occurs in the regulatory or coding regions of genes this can ...
Felicia N. Williams, K. Matthew Scaglione, K. Matthew Scaglione, K. Matthew Scaglione   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identification of the protein kinases Pyk3 and Phg2 as regulators of the STATc-mediated response to hyperosmolarity [PDF]

, 2014
Cellular adaptation to changes in environmental osmolarity is crucial for cell survival. In Dictyostelium, STATc is a key regulator of the transcriptional response to hyperosmotic stress. Its phosphorylation and consequent activation is controlled by two
A Kortholt, A Kortholt, AA Noegel, Adrian John Harwood, BK Gilsbach, C Blanc, Christoph S. Clemen, CR Thompson, DE Levy, H Kiu, H Kuwayama, H Towbin, J Faix, J Langenick, J Na, Jeffrey G. Williams, Jianbo Na, JM Goldberg, K Adler, KL Williams, L Gebbie, Linh Hai Vu, Ludwig Eichinger, M Brink, M Fukuzawa, M Gamper, MR Lee, NS Lee, P Farbrother, P Gatsios, R Kang, RH Insall, T Araki, T Araki, T Araki, T Araki, Tsuyoshi Araki, UK Laemmli   +37 more
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Interactions Between Active Matters and Endogenous Fields

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review synthesizes endogenous field information and computational methods in contexts such as cancer, wounds, and biofilms. It organizes NAMs and AAMs by sensing, transmitting, and executing functions, compares their limitations, and from these contrasts proposes design strategies for next‐generation AAMs, offering perspectives to foster ...
Jinwei Lin, Qiaoxin Guan, Jiangqi Feng, Shuqin Chen, Leilei Xu, Jianguo Guan, Samuel Sánchez   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-color fluorescence live-cell imaging in Dictyostelium discoideum

Cell Structure and Function
The cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, a member of the Amoebozoa, has been extensively studied in cell and developmental biology. D. discoideum is unique in that they are genetically tractable, with a wealth of data accumulated over half a ...
Hidenori Hashimura, Satoshi Kuwana, Hibiki Nakagawa, Kenichi Abe, Tomoko Adachi, Toyoko Sugita, Shoko Fujishiro, Gen Honda, Satoshi Sawai   +8 more
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Dynamical strategies for obstacle avoidance during Dictyostelium discoideum aggregation: a Multi-agent system model [PDF]

, 2019
Chemotaxis, the movement of an organism in response to chemical stimuli, is a typical feature of many microbiological systems. In particular, the social amoeba \textit{Disctyostelium discoideum} is widely used as a model organism, but it is not still ...
Maggiora, Marco, Proverbio, Daniele
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Measuring cell adhesion forces with the atomic force microscope at the molecular level [PDF]

, 2002
In the past 25 years many techniques have been developed to characterize cell adhesion and to quantify adhesion forces. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been used to measure forces in the pico-newton range, an experimental technique known as force ...
Benoit, M., Gaub, H. E.
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Information Transmission Strategies for Self‐Organized Robotic Aggregation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
In this review, we discuss how information transmission influences the neighbor‐based self‐organized aggregation of swarm robots. We focus specifically on local interactions regarding information transfer and categorize previous studies based on the functions of the information exchanged.
Shu Leng, Zihan Li, Yifeng Shao, Jinhao Liu, Li Yu, Shuguang Li   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source