Dictyostelium discoideum contains a gene encoding a myosin I heavy chain.

Abstract:

:We have cloned and completely sequenced a gene encoding the heavy chain of Dictyostelium myosin I. Like the myosin I molecules from Acanthamoeba, the Dictyostelium myosin I heavy chain is composed of a globular head domain fused to a 45-kDa glycine-, proline-, and alanine-rich carboxyl-terminal domain, rather than the coiled-coil rod domain of conventional myosins. Comparisons of the Dictyostelium myosin I heavy-chain amino acid sequence with those of the Acanthamoeba myosins I reveal that they are highly similar throughout, including the unconventional carboxyl-terminal domains. The Dictyostelium myosin I gene is expressed in growing cells as a 3600-nucleotide mRNA. Measurements of the steady-state level of this mRNA at different times during starvation-induced aggregation and development are consistent with a role for myosin I in chemotaxis and aggregation. Generation of Dictyostelium cells lacking myosin I by gene disruption and/or antisense RNA production should provide a way to test directly the role of this nonfilamentous myosin in cell motility. These experiments will be simplified by the fact that Southern blot analyses of Dictyostelium genomic DNA are consistent with there being a single myosin I heavy-chain gene.

authors

Jung G,Saxe CL 3rd,Kimmel AR,Hammer JA 3rd

doi

10.1073/pnas.86.16.6186

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-08-01 00:00:00

pages

6186-90

issue

16

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

journal_volume

86

pub_type

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