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Calmodulin Sensitivity of the Flagellar Membrane Adenylate Cyclase and Signaling of Motile Responses by cAMP in Gametes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Author(s) -
Pasquale S. M.,
Goodenough U. W.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
botanica acta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.871
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1438-8677
pISSN - 0932-8629
DOI - 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1988.tb00021.x
Subject(s) - chlamydomonas reinhardtii , chlamydomonas , adenylate kinase , calmodulin , cyclase , flagellum , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , motility , egta , biochemistry , biophysics , calcium , chemistry , enzyme , gene , mutant , organic chemistry
Cyclic AMP (cAMP) has been shown to be a primary signal of the agglutination‐induced mating events of flagellar tip activation, cell wall loss, and mating structure activation in the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Pasquale and Goodenough, Cell Biol. 105 (1987), 2279–2293). The flagellar membrane adenylate cyclase of Chlamydomonas is here shown to be inhibited in vitro by EGTA, La 3+ , and trifluoperazine, and to be stimulated in the presence of calcium by incubation with exogenous calmodulin. Also, the motility of detergent‐extracted models of Chlamydomonas is shown to be enhanced by cAMP. These observations suggest the hypothesis that the twitching motility characteristic of agglutinating Chlamydomonas gametes may be signaled by cAMP produced locally within the flagella by a calmodulin‐sensitive adenylate cyclase.