Abstract
Chlamydomonas reinhardii cells were broken in a French press and the soluble fraction was tested for agglutination activity. Deflagellated cell bodies ofmt + andmt - gametes yielded soluble fractions that were able to isoagglutinate gametes of the opposite mating type. When the wild-type gametes of opposite mating types were mixed, the cell body-agglutinins were used up during flagellar agglutination and subsequent cell fusion. When thefus mt + andmt - gametes agglutinated without successive fusion, the amount of cell body-agglutinins sharply decreased, then increased and reached the premixing level: the recovery was blocked by cycloheximide. When cells were treated with EDTA or trypsin, the cell body-agglutinins as well as flagellar surface-agglutinins were completely lost without apparent loss of motility. The EDTA extract contained the same amount of agglutinins as observed in the cell bodies before extraction, and this amount was about 100 times higher than that in the EDTA extract of isolated flagella. By the addition of trypsin inhibitor, the trypsinized gametes resynthesized the cell body-agglutinins. The process was sensitive to cycloheximide in both mating type gametes and to tunicamycin inmt + gametes.
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Abbreviations
- mt +/- :
-
mating type plus or minus
- CHI:
-
cycloheximide
- TI:
-
trypsin inhibitor
- TM:
-
tunicamycin
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Saito, T., Tsubo, Y. & Matsuda, Y. Synthesis and turnover of cell body-agglutinin as a pool of flagellar surface-agglutinin inChlamydomonas reinhardii gamete. Arch. Microbiol. 142, 207–210 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00693391
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