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Candida tropicalis is a dimorphic yeast capable of growing both as a budding yeast and as filamentous hyphae depending upon the source of the carbon used in the culture medium. The organization of F-actin during growth of the yeast form (Y-form) and the hyphal form (H-form) was visualized by rhodamine-conjugated phalloidin by using a conventional fluorescence microscope as well as a laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscope. In single cells without a bud or non-growing hyphae, actin dots were evenly distributed throughout the cytoplasm. Before the growth of the bud or hypha, the actin dots were concentrated at one site. During bud growth, actin dots were located solely in the bud. They filled the small bud and then filled the apical two-thirds of the cytoplasm of the middlesized bud. During growth of the large bud, actin dots which had filled the apical half of the cytoplasm gradually moved to the tip of the bud. In the formation of the septum, actin dots were arranged in two lines at the conjunction of the bud and the mother cell. During hyphal growth, the majority of actin dots were concentrated at the hyphal apex. A line of clustered spots or a band of actin was observed only at the site where the formation of a new septum was imminent. This spatial and temporal organization of actin in both categories of cells was demonstrated to be closely related to the growth and local deposition of new cell wall material by monitoring the mode of growth with Calcofluor staining. Treatment of both forms of cells with cytochalasin A (CA) confirmed the close relationship between actin and new cell wall deposition. CA treatment revealed lightly stained unlocalized actin which was associated with abnormal cell wall deposition as well as changes in morphology. These results suggest that actin is required for proper growth and proper deposition of cell wall material and also for maintaining the morphology of both forms of cells.
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Abbreviations
- FM:
-
fluorescence microscopy
- EM:
-
electron microscopy
- rh:
-
rhodamine
- CA:
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cytochalasin A
- CD:
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cytochalasin D
- PBS:
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phosphate-buffered saline
- DMSO:
-
dimethylsulfoxide
- GA:
-
glutaraldehyde
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Kobori, H., Sato, M. & Osumi, M. Relationship of actin organization to growth in the two forms of the dimorphic yeastCandida tropicalis . Protoplasma 167, 193–204 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01403383
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01403383