Article
Formation of the Dictyostelium spore coat.
Developmental genetics - 1 Jan 1990
West C M, Erdos G W
Abstract excerpt
The spore coat forms as a rigid extracellular wall around each spore cell during culmination. Coats purified from germinated spores contain multiple protein species and an approximately equal mass of polysaccharide, consisting mostly of cellulose and a galactose/N-acetylgalactosamine polysacchari...
Topics
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- Dictyostelium
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Extracellular Matrix
- Fungal Proteins
- Glycoproteins
- Glycosylation
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mutation
- Polysaccharides
- Spores, Fungal