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The water-borne protein signals (pheromones) of the Antarctic ciliated protozoan Euplotes nobilii: structure of the gene coding for the En-6 pheromone.
Canadian journal of microbiology - 1 Jan 2009
La Terza Antonietta, Dobri Nicoleta, Alimenti Claudio, Vallesi Adriana, Luporini Pierangelo
Abstract excerpt
The marine Antarctic ciliate, Euplotes nobilii, secretes a family of water-borne signal proteins, denoted as pheromones, which control vegetative proliferation and mating in the cell. Based on the knowledge of the amino acid sequences of a set of these pheromones isolated from the culture supernatant of wild-type strains, we designed probes to identify their encoding genes in the cell somatic nucleus...
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