Ciliate cryptobiosis: a microbial strategy against environmental starvation
Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos; Callejas, Sergio; Borniquel, Sara; Benítez, Laura; Martín-González, Ana.
Int. microbiol
; 4(3): 151-157, sept. 2001. ilus
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| IBECS (España) | ID: ibc-23247
This review outlines the main features of ciliate resting-cyst formation or encystment. It represents a strategy against several environmental stresses (such as starvation), which involves a highly gene-regulated cell differentiation process and originates a more resistant, differentiated form or resting cyst. This process is mainly characterized by drastic cytoplasmic dehydration that induces a general metabolic rate decrease, intense autophagic activity, the formation of a permeable cyst wall protecting the cell against the adverse environmental conditions, and a gene-silencing mechanism after opening the specific encystment genes (AU)
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