Expansion Microscopy Reveals Characteristic Ultrastructural Features of Pathogenic Budding Yeast Species

Overview

Journal J Cell Sci

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2024 Jul 25

PMID 39051746

Authors

Md Hashim Reza

Srijana Dutta

Rohit Goyal

Hiral Shah

Gautam Dey

Kaustuv Sanyal

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Abstract

Candida albicans is the most prevalent fungal pathogen associated with candidemia. Similar to other fungi, the complex life cycle of C. albicans has been challenging to study with high-resolution microscopy due to its small size. Here, we employed ultrastructure expansion microscopy (U-ExM) to directly visualise subcellular structures at high resolution in the yeast and during its transition to hyphal growth. N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS)-ester pan-labelling in combination with immunofluorescence via snapshots of various mitotic stages provided a comprehensive map of nucleolar and mitochondrial segregation dynamics and enabled the resolution of the inner and outer plaque of spindle pole bodies (SPBs). Analyses of microtubules (MTs) and SPBs suggest that C. albicans displays a side-by-side SPB arrangement with a short mitotic spindle and longer astral MTs (aMTs) at the pre-anaphase stage. Modifications to the established U-ExM protocol enabled the expansion of six other human fungal pathogens, revealing that the side-by-side SPB configuration is a plausibly conserved feature shared by many fungal species. We highlight the power of U-ExM to investigate subcellular organisation at high resolution and low cost in poorly studied and medically relevant microbial pathogens.

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