Article
Early encounters of the repetitive kind: a prelude to cell adhesion in conjugating Tetrahymena thermophila.
Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists - 1 Mar 1993
Brown F, Tirone S, Wolfe J
Abstract excerpt
The relationship between direct cell contacts and subsequent cell-cell adhesion was studied in the ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila. During sexual reproduction, adhesion into pairs begins at approximately 1 hr after mixing starved complementary mating types. However, direct contacts be...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Adhesion
- Cells, Cultured
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Mutation
- Receptors, Concanavalin A
- Reproduction
- Tetrahymena thermophila