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Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2021
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Description:
The amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum (D.d.) is an excellent laboratory model system for studying amoeboid adhesion. In its natural habitat, D.d. lives in the soil and hunts for bacteria, an environment, which is very heterogeneous, where surface properties change rapidly. This phenomenon requires a high degree of flexibility from the adhesion apparatus of D.d.. To block amoeboid adhesion of D.d., first studies used polyethylene glycol (PEG) “brushes” as surface functionalization. In the present study, it was shown that gels of PEG are a good alternative, and it wa...