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Ji-Sun Kim1, Ji-Hui Seo, Hyung-Soon Yim
1Laboratory of Biophysics, School of Biological Sciences, and Institute of Microbiology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
We investigated the function of homeodomain-containing protein Hbx4 in Dictyostelium discoideum. Hbx4-overexpressing cells (Hbx4(OE)) displayed defects in growth rate and cytokinesis and showed differences in slug motility and cell-type proportioning from KAx3. Furthermore, the overexpression of Hbx4 inhibited the induction of cadA, which encoded the Ca(2+)-dependent cell adhesion molecule DdCAD-1, despite expression of csaA and gpaB. The electrophoretic mobility shift assay showed that the promoter of cadA contained the Hbx4-binding site. Moreover, constitutively expressed DdCAD-1 in Hbx4(OE) rescued the defects in cytokinesis and development. These results suggest that Hbx4 modulates DdCAD-1-mediated cytokinesis and cell-type proportioning.
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