The effect of cAMP on differentiation inducing factor (DIF)-mediated formation of stalk cells in low-cell-density monolayers of Dictyostelium discoideum

1988 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Kwong ◽  
Andre Sobolewski ◽  
Gerald Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Cell Density ◽  
Dictyostelium Discoideum ◽  
Low Cell Density

scholarly journals PldB, a Putative Phospholipase D Homologue in Dictyostelium discoideum Mediates Quorum Sensing during Development

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 694-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Chen ◽  
Vanessa Rodrick ◽  
Yi Yan ◽  
Derrick Brazill
Keyword(s):  
Quorum Sensing ◽  
Cell Density ◽  
Dictyostelium Discoideum ◽  
Phospholipase D ◽  
Unicellular Eukaryote ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Developmental Gene Expression ◽  
Gene Coding ◽  
Early Developmental ◽  
Low Cell Density

ABSTRACT Quorum sensing, also known as cell-density sensing in the unicellular eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum, is required for efficient entry into the differentiation and development segment of its life cycle. Quorum sensing is accomplished by simultaneously secreting and sensing the glycoprotein Conditioned Medium Factor, or CMF. When the density of starving cells is high, CMF levels are high, which leads to aggregation followed by development. Here, we describe the role of pldB, a gene coding for a putative phospholipase D (PLD) homologue, in quorum sensing. We find that in submerged culture, adding butanol, an inhibitor of PLD-catalyzed phosphatidic acid production, allows cells to bypass the requirement for CMF mediated quorum sensing and aggregate at low cell density. Deletion of pldB mimics the presence of butanol, allowing cells to aggregate at low cell density. pldB − cells also initiate and finish aggregation rapidly. Analysis of early developmental gene expression in pldB − cells reveals that the cyclic AMP receptor cAR1 is expressed at higher levels earlier than in wild-type cells, which could explain the rapid aggregation phenotype. As would be predicted, cells overexpressing pldB are unable to aggregate even at high cell density. Adding CMF to these pldB − overexpressing cells does not rescue aggregation. Both of these phenotypes are cell autonomous, as mixing a small number of pldB − cells with wild-type cells does not cause the wild-type cells to behave like pldB − cells.

scholarly journals Inhibition of Apoptosis in a Human Pre-B–Cell Line by CD23 Is Mediated Via a Novel Receptor

Blood ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 234-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey J. White ◽  
Bradford W. Ozanne ◽  
Pierre Graber ◽  
Jean-Pierre Aubry ◽  
Jean-Yves Bonnefoy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Line ◽  
Cell Density ◽  
Flow Cytometric Analysis ◽  
Leukemia Cell ◽  
Lymphocytic Leukemia ◽  
Leukemia Cell Line ◽  
Cell Densities ◽  
Lymphocytic Leukemia Cell ◽  
Low Cell Density ◽  
Cells Cultured

Abstract Human CD23 is a 45-kD type II membrane glycoprotein, which functions as a low-affinity receptor for IgE and as a ligand for the CD21 and CD11b/CD11c differentiation antigens. CD23 is released from the surface of cells as soluble fragments, and a 25-kD species of soluble CD23 (sCD23) appears to act as a multifunctional cytokine. In this report, sCD23 is shown to sustain the growth of low cell density cultures of a human pre-B–acute lymphocytic leukemia cell line, SMS-SB: no other cytokine tested was able to induce this effect. Flow cytometric analysis indicates that sCD23 acts to prevent apoptosis of SMS-SB cells. SMS-SB cells cultured at low cell density possess low levels of bcl-2 protein. Addition of sCD23 to cells at low cell density maintained bcl-2 expression at levels equivalent to those observed in SMS-SB cells cultured at higher cell densities. No CD23 mRNA was found in SMS-SB cells, ruling out an autocrine function for CD23 in this cell line model. Although SMS-SB cells do not express the known receptors for CD23, namely CD21, CD11b-CD18, or CD11c-CD18, the cells specifically bind CD23-containing liposomes, but not glycophorin-containing liposomes. Binding of CD23-containing liposomes is inhibited by anti-CD23 but not by anti-CD21 or anti-CD11b/c monoclonal antibodies. The data show that sCD23 prevents apoptosis of the SMS-SB cell line by acting through a novel receptor.

scholarly journals Quorum Sensing Controls Biofilm Formation in Vibrio cholerae through Modulation of Cyclic Di-GMP Levels and Repression of vpsT

2008 ◽  
Vol 190 (7) ◽  
pp. 2527-2536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Waters ◽  
Wenyun Lu ◽  
Joshua D. Rabinowitz ◽  
Bonnie L. Bassler
Keyword(s):  
Quorum Sensing ◽  
Vibrio Cholerae ◽  
Cell Density ◽  
Biofilm Formation ◽  
High Cell Density ◽  
High Cell ◽  
Chemical Signaling ◽  
Signaling Systems ◽  
Genes Encoding ◽  
Low Cell Density

ABSTRACT Two chemical signaling systems, quorum sensing (QS) and 3′,5′-cyclic diguanylic acid (c-di-GMP), reciprocally control biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae. QS is the process by which bacteria communicate via the secretion and detection of autoinducers, and in V. cholerae, QS represses biofilm formation. c-di-GMP is an intracellular second messenger that contains information regarding local environmental conditions, and in V. cholerae, c-di-GMP activates biofilm formation. Here we show that HapR, a major regulator of QS, represses biofilm formation in V. cholerae through two distinct mechanisms. HapR controls the transcription of 14 genes encoding a group of proteins that synthesize and degrade c-di-GMP. The net effect of this transcriptional program is a reduction in cellular c-di-GMP levels at high cell density and, consequently, a decrease in biofilm formation. Increasing the c-di-GMP concentration at high cell density to the level present in the low-cell-density QS state restores biofilm formation, showing that c-di-GMP is epistatic to QS in the control of biofilm formation in V. cholerae. In addition, HapR binds to and directly represses the expression of the biofilm transcriptional activator, vpsT. Together, our results suggest that V. cholerae integrates information about the vicinal bacterial community contained in extracellular QS autoinducers with the intracellular environmental information encoded in c-di-GMP to control biofilm formation.

scholarly journals CbfA, the C-Module DNA-Binding Factor, Plays an Essential Role in the Initiation of Dictyostelium discoideum Development

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 1349-1358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Winckler ◽  
Negin Iranfar ◽  
Peter Beck ◽  
Ingo Jennes ◽  
Oliver Siol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Binding ◽  
Cell Density ◽  
Dictyostelium Discoideum ◽  
Ectopic Expression ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Cell Physiology ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Gene Encoding ◽  
Multicellular Development

ABSTRACT We recently isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum cells a DNA-binding protein, CbfA, that interacts in vitro with a regulatory element in retrotransposon TRE5-A. We have generated a mutant strain that expresses CbfA at <5% of the wild-type level to characterize the consequences for D. discoideum cell physiology. We found that the multicellular development program leading to fruiting body formation is highly compromised in the mutant. The cells cannot aggregate and stay as a monolayer almost indefinitely. The cells respond properly to prestarvation conditions by expressing discoidin in a cell density-dependent manner. A genomewide microarray-assisted expression analysis combined with Northern blot analyses revealed a failure of CbfA-depleted cells to induce the gene encoding aggregation-specific adenylyl cyclase ACA and other genes required for cyclic AMP (cAMP) signal relay, which is necessary for aggregation and subsequent multicellular development. However, the cbfA mutant aggregated efficiently when mixed with as few as 5% wild-type cells. Moreover, pulsing cbfA mutant cells developing in suspension with nanomolar levels of cAMP resulted in induction of acaA and other early developmental genes. Although the response was less efficient and slower than in wild-type cells, it showed that cells depleted of CbfA are able to initiate development if given exogenous cAMP signals. Ectopic expression of the gene encoding the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A restored multicellular development of the mutant. We conclude that sensing of cell density and starvation are independent of CbfA, whereas CbfA is essential for the pattern of gene expression which establishes the genetic network leading to aggregation and multicellular development of D. discoideum.

scholarly journals Evidence for cooperation between cells during sporulation of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 5166-5178 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Jakubowski ◽  
E Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Cell Density ◽  
De Novo ◽  
High Cell Density ◽  
Degradation Products ◽  
Yeast Cells ◽  
High Cell ◽  
Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Type Locus ◽  
Low Cell Density

Diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells heterozygous for the mating type locus (MATa/MAT alpha) undergo meiosis and sporulation when starved for nitrogen in the presence of a poor carbon source such as potassium acetate. Diploid yeast adenine auxotrophs sporulated well at high cell density (10(7) cells per ml) under these conditions but failed to differentiate at low cell density (10(5) cells per ml). The conditional sporulation-deficient phenotype of adenine auxotrophs could be complemented by wild-type yeast cells, by medium from cultures that sporulate at high cell density, or by exogenously added adenine (or hypoxanthine with some mutants). Adenine and hypoxanthine in addition to guanine, adenosine, and numerous nucleotides were secreted into the medium, each in its unique temporal pattern, by sporulating auxotrophic and prototrophic yeast strains. The major source of these compounds was degradation of RNA. The data indicated that differentiating yeast cells cooperate during sporulation in maintaining sufficiently high concentrations of extracellular purines which are absolutely required for sporulation of adenine auxotrophs. Yeast prototrophs, which also sporulated less efficiently at low cell density (10(3) cells per ml), reutilized secreted purines in preference to de novo-made purine nucleotides whose synthesis was in fact inhibited during sporulation at high cell density. Adenine enhanced sporulation of yeast prototrophs at low cell density. The behavior of adenine auxotrophs bearing additional mutations in purine salvage pathway genes (ade apt1, ade aah1 apt1, ade hpt1) supports a model in which secretion of degradation products, uptake, and reutilization of these products is a signal between cells synchronizing the sporulation process.

Sox9 expression of alginate-encapsulated chondrocytes is stimulated by low cell density

2009 ◽  
Vol 91A (3) ◽  
pp. 910-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bernstein ◽  
Meng Dong ◽  
Sylvi Graupher ◽  
Denis Corbeil ◽  
Michael Gelinsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Density ◽  
Sox9 Expression ◽  
Low Cell Density

scholarly journals The impacts of replacing air bubbles with microspheres for the clarification of algae from low cell-density culture

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 168-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Ometto ◽  
Carlo Pozza ◽  
Rachel Whitton ◽  
Beatrice Smyth ◽  
Andrea Gonzalez Torres ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Density ◽  
Air Bubbles ◽  
Low Cell Density

scholarly journals Application of feeder layer method for improved colony formation of grape cells and protoplasts at low cell density.

1985 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 3583-3585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi YAMAKAWA ◽  
Kazuya ONOMICHI ◽  
Tohru KODAMA ◽  
Yasuji MINODA
Keyword(s):  
Cell Density ◽  
Colony Formation ◽  
Feeder Layer ◽  
Layer Method ◽  
Low Cell Density

scholarly journals Sociality in Escherichia coli: Enterochelin Is a Private Good at Low Cell Density and Can Be Shared at High Cell Density

2015 ◽  
Vol 197 (13) ◽  
pp. 2122-2128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Scholz ◽  
E. Peter Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Cell Density ◽  
Iron Acquisition ◽  
Partial Privatization ◽  
High Cell ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cell Densities ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Low Cell Density

ABSTRACTMany bacteria produce secreted iron chelators called siderophores, which can be shared among cells with specific siderophore uptake systems regardless of whether the cell produces siderophores. Sharing secreted products allows freeloading, where individuals use resources without bearing the cost of production. Here we show that theEscherichia colisiderophore enterochelin is not evenly shared between producers and nonproducers. Wild-typeEscherichia coligrows well in low-iron minimal medium, and an isogenic enterochelin synthesis mutant (ΔentF) grows very poorly. The enterochelin mutant grows well in low-iron medium supplemented with enterochelin. At high cell densities the ΔentFmutant can compete equally with the wild type in low-iron medium. At low cell densities the ΔentFmutant cannot compete. Furthermore, the growth rate of the wild type is unaffected by cell density. The wild type grows well in low-iron medium even at very low starting densities. Our experiments support a model where at least some enterochelin remains associated with the cells that produce it, and the cell-associated enterochelin enables iron acquisition even at very low cell density. Enterochelin that is not retained by producing cells at low density is lost to dilution. At high cell densities, cell-free enterochelin can accumulate and be shared by all cells in the group. Partial privatization is a solution to the problem of iron acquisition in low-iron, low-cell-density habitats. Cell-free enterochelin allows for iron scavenging at a distance at higher population densities. Our findings shed light on the conditions under which freeloaders might benefit from enterochelin uptake systems.IMPORTANCESociality in microbes has become a topic of great interest. One facet of sociality is the sharing of secreted products, such as the iron-scavenging siderophores. We present evidence that theEscherichia colisiderophore enterochelin is relatively inexpensive to produce and is partially privatized such that it can be efficiently shared only at high producer cell densities. At low cell densities, cell-free enterochelin is scarce and only enterochelin producers are able to grow in low-iron medium. Because freely shared products can be exploited by freeloaders, this partial privatization may help explain how enterochelin production is stabilized inE. coliand may provide insight into when enterochelin is available for freeloaders.

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