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Root-knot nematodes penetrate plant hosts and migrate between the cells in roots, where they induce formation of large multinucleate cells called 'giant cells'.
Most of the diversity in GC content within eukaryotes, and hence most of the significance of the regressions, comes from unicellular and multinucleate organisms, including fungi and protists, rather than from the multicellular plants and metazoa.
In yeast, profilin null mutations result in cells that are viable at permissive temperature, but grow more slowly, are larger than wild type, and are often multinucleate [ 38 ] . The chickadee ( chic ) gene encodes Drosophila profilin and chic mutations produce sterile female flies [ 39 40 ] . In both species, profilin mutations resulted in defects in actin polymerization [ 38 39 40 ] . In addition to regulating actin assembly, a large body of in vitro and in vivo evidence suggests a role for profilin in signal transduction, mainly involving PIP2, a major second messenger that strongly binds to profilin [ 41 ] and localizes to the membrane microdomains described earlier.