Schmitt, Rüdiger (2003) Differention of germinal and somatic cells in Volvox carteri. CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY, 6 (6). pp. 608-613. ISSN 1369-5274, 1879-0364
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Volvox carteri is a spherical alga with a complete division of labor between around 2000 biflagellate somatic cells and 16 asexual reproductive cells (gonidia). It provides an attractive system for studying how a molecular genetic program for cell-autonomous differentiation is encoded within the genome. Three types of genes have been identified as key players in germ-soma differentiation: a set of gls genes that act in the embryo to shift cell-division planes, resulting in asymmetric divisions that set apart the large-small sister-cell pairs; a set of lag genes that act in the large gonidial initials to prevent somatic differentiation; and the regA gene, which acts in the small somatic initials to prevent reproductive development. Somatic-cell-specific expression of regA is controlled by intronic enhancer and silencer elements.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | GREEN-ALGA VOLVOX; NITRATE REDUCTASE; GENE; PLAYS; REGA; TRANSFORMATION; MORPHOGENESIS; METHYLATION; EXPRESSION; PROTEINS; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 540 Chemistry & allied sciences 500 Science > 570 Life sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Biochemie, Genetik und Mikrobiologie |
| Depositing User: | Petra Gürster |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2021 07:42 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2021 07:42 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/38339 |
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