Abstract
Analysis of the respiratory chain of spores of Dictyostelium discoideum, which lack a cyanide-sensitive respiration, indicated that cytochromes a-a3, b, and c-c1 are present at levels identical to those found in the vegetative amoebae. The specific activities of enzymes of both the respiratory chain and the citric acid cycle in the 600 x g supernatant fraction of sonically treated spores were at least as high as in similar preparations of amoebae. The activities of glutamic dehydrogenase and oligomycin-sensitive adenosine triphosphatase were reduced in the spores 30 and 56%, respectively. Intact spores appeared to lack a cyanide-sensitive respiration as a result of inadequate quantities of respiratory substrate and, more importantly, as a result of a lack of the cofactor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. The emergence phase of spore germination was sensitive to the antibiotic chloramphenicol, which is a specific inhibitor of mitochondrial protein synthesis. It is concluded that germination requires the early synthesis of oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and generation of respiratory substrates and one or more mitochondrially synthesized proteins.
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