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- Title
A new F-actin structure in fungi: actin ring formation around the cell nucleus of Cryptococcus neoformans.
- Authors
Kopecká, Marie; Kawamoto, Susumu; Yamaguchi, Masashi
- Abstract
The F-actin cytoskeleton of Cryptococcus neoformans is known to comprise actin cables, cortical patches and cytokinetic ring. Here, we describe a new F-actin structure in fungi, a perinuclear F-actin collar ring around the cell nucleus, by fluorescent microscopic imaging of rhodamine phalloidin-stained F-actin. Perinuclear F-actin rings form in Cryptococcus neoformans treated with the microtubule inhibitor Nocodazole or with the drug solvent dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) or grown in yeast extract peptone dextrose (YEPD) medium, but they are absent in cells treated with Latrunculin A. Perinuclear F-actin rings may function as ‘funicular cabin’ for the cell nucleus, and actin cables as intracellular ‘funicular’ suspending nucleus in the central position in the cell and moving nucleus along the polarity axis along actin cables.
- Subjects
F-actin; CRYPTOCOCCUS neoformans; CELL nuclei; FUNGI; ACTIN
- Publication
Microscopy, 2013, Vol 62, Issue 2, p295
- ISSN
2050-5698
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jmicro/dfs074