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Assortative Fertilization In The Elegans-Group Of Caenorhabditis, Sara Rose Seibert
Assortative Fertilization In The Elegans-Group Of Caenorhabditis, Sara Rose Seibert
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Assortative fertilization refers to the species-specific interactions between sperm and oocytes that affect the success of fertilization. One type of interaction is chemotaxis of sperm to oocytes. In Caenorhabditis elegans, amoeboid sperm must crawl along the uterine lining towards the spermathecae in response to oocyte-derived prostaglandin signals for fertilization. This chemotactic signaling system likely operates in other species of the Elegans-Group of Caenorhabditis as sperm of C. briggsae and C. remanei do localize to the C. elegans spermathecae. In this project the impacts of species-specific chemotaxis on fertilization and female fecundity were assessed. To accomplish this, the localization of …
The Role Of Phospholipase D (Pld) And Grb2 In Chemotaxis, Katie J. Knapek
The Role Of Phospholipase D (Pld) And Grb2 In Chemotaxis, Katie J. Knapek
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Phospholipase D (PLD) is an enzyme that hydrolyzes phosphatidylcholine yielding choline and phosphatidic acid. PLD is activated by mitogens (lead to cell division) and motogens (leading to cell migration). PLD is known to contribute to cellular proliferation and deregulated expression of PLD has been implicated in several human cancers. PLD has been found to play a role in leukocyte chemotaxis and adhesion as studied through the formation of chemokine gradients. We have established a model of cell migration comprising three cell lines: macrophages RAW 264.7 and LR-5 (for innate defense), and fibroblast COS-7 cells (for wound healing). COS-7 cells respond …