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Possible involvement of autocrine factors into the control of motile behavior via a receptor-mediated mechanism was investigated in Physarum polycephalum plasmodium, a multinuclear amoeboid cell with the auto-oscillatory mode of motility. Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and extracellular cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase, its involvement into the control of plasmodium motile behavior was proved by action of its strong inhibitor, were regarded as putative autocrine factors. It was shown that the plasmodium secreted cAMP. When it was introduced into agar support, 0.1–1 mM cAMP induced a delay of the plasmodium spreading and its transition to migration. When locally applied, cAMP at the same concentrations induced the typical for attractant action increase in oscillation frequency and the decrease of ectoplasm elasticity. The ability to exhibit positive chemotaxis in cAMP gradient and the dependence of its realization were shown to depend on the plasmodium state. Chemotaxis test specimens obtained from the migrating plasmodium, unlike those obtained from growing culture, generate alternative fronts which compete effectively with fronts oriented towards the attractant increment. The results obtained support our supposition stated earlier that advance of the Physarum polycephalum plasmodium leading edge is determined by local extracellular cAMP gradients arising from a time delay between secretion and hydrolysis of the nucleotide.
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Original Russian Text © N.B. Matveeva, V.A. Teplov, A.R. Nezvetsky, T.G. Orlova, S.I. Beylina, 2012, published in Biofizika, 2012, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp. 832–839.
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Matveeva, N.B., Teplov, V.A., Nezvetsky, A.R. et al. Involvement of cyclic adenosine monophosphate in the control of motile behavior of Physarum polycephalum plasmodium. BIOPHYSICS 57, 644–650 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350912050132
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