Cells of Dictyostelium discoideum respond more sensitively to N10-methylfolic acid than to folic acid

Chemotaxis to cyclic AMP and folic acid is mediated by different G proteins in Dictyostelium discoideum

Mutant Frigid A (fgdA) of Dictyostelium discoideum is defective in a functional Ga2 subunit of a G protein and is characterized by a complete blockade of the cyclic AMP-mediated sensory transduction steps, including cyclic AMP relay, chemotaxis and the cyclic GMP response. Folic acid-mediated transmembrane signal transduction was investigated in this mutant; the results show that: (1) cell surf...

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

Inhibition of Acid Proteinase from Dictyostelium discoideum

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The Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle in Dictyostelium discoideum

Experimental studies of enzyme kinetics in vitro and metabolic fluxes in vivo have been used by Wright and her colleagues to develop a detailed kinetic model of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in Dictyostelium discoideum. This model has recently been been analyzed by two different methods (Albe, K. R., and Wright, B. E. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 3106-3114; Shiraishi, F., and Savageau, M. A. (199...

The Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle in Dictyostelium discoideum

Some aspects of tricarboxylic acid-cycle activity during differentiation and aging in Dictyostelium discoideum were examined. The concentrations of glutamate, aspartate, alanine, citrate, 2-oxoglutarate, succinate, fumarate, malate, oxaloacetate, pyruvate and acetyl-CoA were determined at four stages over the course of differentiation. The rate of 02 utilization was also determined over differe...