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Two cell-counting factors regulate the aggregate size of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum.
Development, growth & differentiation - 1 Dec 2001
Okuwa T, Katayama T, Takano A, Kodaira K, Yasukawa H
Abstract excerpt
Countin, a cell-counting factor in Dictyostelium discoideum, is considered to limit the maximum size of the multicellular structure, because a countin null strain forms a huge fruiting body compared to that of the wild-type. A novel gene, countin2, that is highly homologous to countin (40% identity in amino acid sequence) was identified in the D. discoideum genome. The countin2 null strain formed a 1.7-fold...
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