Table 1.

Dictyostelium discoideum strains used in this study.

Strain	Genotype	Parental strain	References
AX2	axeA2, axeB2, axeC2	NC4	Watts and Ashworth, 1970
DH1	axeA1, axeB1, axeC1, pyr5-6-[pRG24], ura−	NC4	Caterina et al., 1994
atg1−	axeA1, axeB1, axeC1, atg1-1[pAtg1-1], bsR	DH1	Otto et al., 2004
atg5−	axeA1, axeB1, axeC1, pyr5-6-[pRG24], ura-, atg5-[atg5-KO], bsR	DH1	Otto et al., 2003
atg6−	axeA1, axeB1, axeC1, pyr5-6-[pRG24], ura-, atg6-[atg6-HR], bsR	DH1	Otto et al., 2004
atg7−	axeA1, axeB1, axeC1, pyr5-6-[pRG24], ura-, atg7-[atg7-KO], bsR	DH1	Otto et al., 2003
atg8−	axeA1, axeB1, axeC1, pyr5-6-[pRG24], ura-, atg8-[atg8-KO], bsR	DH1	Otto et al., 2004
CNA-RNAi	axeA2, axeB2, axeC2, [canA-RNAi], neoR	AX2	Thewes et al., 2014
CNB-RNAi	axeA2, axeB2, axeC2, [cnbA-RNAi], neoR	AX2	Boeckeler et al., 2006
dymA−	axeA2, axeB2, axeC2, dymA-, bsR	AX2	Wienke et al., 1999
kil1−	axeA1, axeB1, axeC1, pyr5-6-[pRG24], ura-, kil1-[kil1-bsr], bsR	DH1	Benghezal et al., 2006
kil2−	axeA1, axeB1, axeC1, pyr5-6- [pRG24], ura-, kil2-, [kil2-bsr], bsr	DH1	Lelong et al., 2011
phg1A−	axeA1, axeB1, axeC1, pyr5-6-[pRG24], ura-, phg1a-[pPHG1a], bsR	DH1	Cornillon et al., 2000
racH−	axeA2, axeB2, axeC2, racH::BSR	AX2	Somesh et al., 2006
rdeA−	axeA1, axeB1, axeC1, pyr5-6-[pRG24], rdeA-[pDIV5], ura+	DH1	Chang et al., 1998
sibA−	axeA1, axeB1, axeC1, pyr5-6-[pRG24), sibA-, ura+	DH1	Cornillon et al., 2006
wshA−	axeA2, axeB2, axeC2, wshA-[wshA::bsr], bsR	AX2	Carnell et al., 2011

All strains were grown axenically.