... when progressing through starvation and subsequent development of a dormant stage. Fatty acid metabolism Fat storage Lipid droplets Development Seipin Dictyostelium discoideum Fat storage has many well-known roles in biology. For warm-blooded animals living in the sea, like whales...

... slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum . However, the entire signaling pathways downstream of DIF-1 remain to be elucidated. To characterize DIF-1 and its potential receptor(s), we synthesized two fluorescent derivatives of DIF-1, boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY)-conjugated DIF-1 (DIF-1-BODIPY...

...Yuzuru Kubohara; Haruhisa Kikuchi; Yusuke Matsuo; Yoshiteru Oshima; Yoshimi Homma ABSTRACT Differentiation-inducing factor-3 (DIF-3), found in the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum , and its derivatives, such as butoxy-DIF-3 (Bu-DIF-3), are potent anti-tumor agents. To investigate...

... subgroups. Dictyostelium discoideum has about 20 SAP domain-containing proteins, none of which have been characterized ( Gaudet et al., 2011 ; Gaudet et al., 2008 ). The different domains present in each of the 20 SAP domain-containing proteins in Dictyostelium discoideum appear unique for each protein...