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Spatial control of organelle dynamics during appressorium-mediated plant infection by Magnaporthe oryzae

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dc.contributor Talbot, Nick
dc.contributor Thornton, Chris
dc.creator Eseola, A
dc.date 2022-07-19T07:22:50Z
dc.date 2022-07-25
dc.date 2022-07-18T16:00:19Z
dc.date 2022-07-19T07:22:50Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-23T12:15:20Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-23T12:15:20Z
dc.identifier ORCID: 0000-0001-5698-8204 (Eseola, Alice)
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10871/130294
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/258576
dc.description Magnaporthe oryzae, the pathogen responsible for the rice blast disease, produces a specialised infection structure called an appressorium that uses massive turgor to break the tough outer cuticle of the rice leaf. Appressorium development is a tightly regulated process that requires surface recognition of a hard hydrophobic surface, successful traversal of cell cycle checkpoints, and autophagic conidial cell death. It is however unknown how organelle trafficking is regulated and spatially controlled in parallel with autophagy and cell cycle progression. I developed molecular markers and a quantitative technique to monitor the trafficking of specific organelles in M. oryzae wild-type strain Guy11 and an ∆atg8 autophagic mutant. Live-cell imaging and quantitative analysis enabled us to characterise the regulated trafficking of 10 organelles within the three-celled conidium during appressorium development. High-resolution live-cell imaging using a photoactivatable green fluorescent protein indicates that germination establishes a separate developmental programme for each conidium cell, permitting organelle trafficking from a single conidium cell into the appressorium while targeting the remaining two cells for autophagy. We discovered that organelle trafficking occurs independently of cell cycle checkpoints for transport into the appressorium. I have quantified the temporal sequence of organelle movement and de novo organelle biogenesis in the incipient appressorium using photoconvertible fluorescent localisation microscopy. Our study shed light on the spatial control of organelle dynamics associated with fungal infection-related morphogenesis.
dc.publisher University of Exeter
dc.publisher Biological Sciences
dc.rights 2024-03-31
dc.rights The data in this thesis are yet to published in peer reviewed journal. Manuscript preparation in under way
dc.rights http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved
dc.subject organelle dynamics
dc.subject live cell imaging
dc.subject spatial development
dc.subject organelles
dc.subject trafficking
dc.subject organelle transport
dc.subject mitochondria
dc.subject nucleolus
dc.subject ribosomes
dc.subject endoplasmic reticulum
dc.subject vacuoles
dc.subject Golgi
dc.subject Early-Golgi
dc.subject Trans-Golgi
dc.subject Peroxisomes
dc.subject photoconvertible reporter
dc.subject mEOS3
dc.subject PaGFP
dc.subject Photoactivation
dc.subject de novo synthesis
dc.subject autophagy
dc.subject FRAP
dc.subject cell cycle
dc.subject microscopy
dc.subject nucleus
dc.subject plasma membrane
dc.subject organelle marker
dc.title Spatial control of organelle dynamics during appressorium-mediated plant infection by Magnaporthe oryzae
dc.type Thesis or dissertation
dc.type PhD
dc.type Doctoral
dc.type Doctoral Thesis


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