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Volume 271, Number 24, Issue of June 14, 1996 pp. 14596-14603
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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PsB Multiprotein Complex of Dictyostelium discoideum
DEMONSTRATION OF CELLULOSE BINDING ACTIVITY AND ORDER OF PROTEIN SUBUNIT ASSEMBLY

(Received for publication, February 1, 1996, and in revised form, April 4, 1996)

From the Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211

The differentiated spores of Dictyostelium are surrounded by an extracellular matrix, the spore coat, which protects them from environmental factors allowing them to remain viable for extended periods of time. This presumably is a major evolutionary advantage. This unique extracellular matrix is composed of cellulose and glycoproteins. Previous work has shown that some of these spore coat glycoproteins exist as a preassembled multiprotein complex (the PsB multiprotein complex) which is stored in the prespore vesicles (Watson, N., McGuire, V., and Alexander, S (1994) J. Cell Sci. 107, 2567-2579). Later in development, the complex is synchronously secreted from the prespore vesicles and incorporated into the spore coat. We now have shown that the PsB complex has a specific in vitro cellulose binding activity. The analysis of mutants lacking individual subunits of the PsB complex revealed the relative order of assembly of the subunit proteins and demonstrated that the protein subunits must be assembled for cellulose binding activity. These results provide a biochemical explanation for the localization of this multiprotein complex in the spore coat.

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