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Organization and Dynamics of the Aspergillus nidulans Golgi during Apical Extension and Mitosis

Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas C.S.I.C., Madrid 28040, Spain

Submitted March 30, 2009; Revised July 31, 2009; Accepted August 11, 2009
Monitoring Editor: Sean Munro

	ABSTRACT

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Aspergillus nidulans hyphae grow exclusively by apical extension. Golgi equivalents (GEs) labeled with mRFP-tagged PH^OSBP domain form a markedly polarized, dynamic network of ring-shaped and fenestrated cisternae that remains intact during "closed" mitosis. mRFP-PH^OSBP GEs advance associated with the growing apex where secretion predominates but do not undergo long-distance movement toward the tip that could account for their polarization. mRFP-PH^OSBP GEs overlap with the trans-Golgi resident Sec7 but do not colocalize with also polarized accretions of the early Golgi marker GrhA^Grh1-GFP, indicating that early and late Golgi membranes segregate spatially. AnSec23-GFP ER exit sites (ERES) are numerous, relatively static foci localizing across the entire cell. However, their density is greatest near the tip, correlating with predominance of early and trans-Golgi elements in this region. Whereas GrhA-GFP structures and ERES reach the apical dome, mRFP-PH^OSBP GEs are excluded from this region, which contains the endosome dynein loading zone. After latrunculin-mediated F-actin disruption, mRFP-PH^OSBP GEs fragment and, like AnSec23-GFP ERES, depolarize. Brefeldin A transiently collapses late and early GEs into distinct aggregates containing Sec7/mRFP-PH^OSBP and GrhA-GFP, respectively, temporarily arresting apical extension. Rapid growth reinitiates after washout, correlating with reacquisition of the normal Golgi organization that, we conclude, is required for apical extension.

	INTRODUCTION

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Hyphal cells of filamentous fungi grow exclusively by apical extension (Momany, 2002). In Aspergillus nidulans cells are multinucleated, but the different nuclei are evenly spaced across the entire length of the cell. Hence intracellular distances between nuclei or between the growing apexes and distal parts of the tip cells may be notably large. Thus, it should come as no surprise that the localization of the machinery or membrane organelles specialized in a given process reflects, at the subcellular level, the site(s) where their function is mainly required.

Endocytosis and secretion show specialized subcellular distribution in hyphae. Studies with the plasma membrane t-SNARE SsoA and the exocyst component SecC^Sec3 established that, in agreement with EM analyses (Harris et al., 2005; Hohmann-Marriott et al., 2006), secretion predominates at the apexes (Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008); (as in this article, we shall differentiate the growing extreme of the hypha [the tip] from the apex ["the tip of the tip"]). Endocytosis can occur elsewhere, but predominates in a subapical ring mediating the endocytic recycling of the v-SNARE SynA (Valdez-Taubas and Pelham, 2003; Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008), hypothetically facilitating the endocytic removal of the excess of materials delivered to the apical dome by exocytosis (Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008; Upadhyay and Shaw, 2008; Lee et al., 2008; Araujo-Bazán et al., 2008b; Higuchi et al., 2009).

Hyphal cells have specialized mechanisms ensuring intracellular communication. For example, in Ustilago maydis and A. nidulans, early endosomes show long-distance, bidirectional movement on microtubules (MTs), trafficking through the hyphal tip (where MTs are oriented with their plus ends toward the apex) before undergoing dynein-dependent retrograde movement (Wedlich-Soldner et al., 2002; Peñalva, 2005; Fuchs et al., 2006; Steinberg, 2007; Galindo et al., 2007; Zekert and Fischer, 2008; Abenza et al., 2009). Functional impairment of dynein prevents this retrograde movement, resulting in an exaggerated endosomal compartment in the tip (the NudA compartment). Thus, the hyphal tip region containing the apex, where exocytosis predominates, the subapical endocytic ring, where endocytosis is most active, and the dynein loading zone for early endosomes, plays a key role in the biology of the hyphal tip cell. The Spitzenkörper (SPK) is a dense meshwork of secretory vesicles and actin filaments located in the apex, underneath the plasma membrane (Harris et al., 2005; Hohmann-Marriott et al., 2006; Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008). Functionally the SPK is a microfilament organizing center from which actin cables radiate (Pearson et al., 2004; Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008). In current models, these cables mediate the short range delivery of secretory vesicles to the apex, thus playing a key role in maintaining polarized secretion and exocytosis.

EM studies have shown that the Golgi cisternae of filamentous fungi (Howard, 1981; Kurtz et al., 1994; Momany, 2002) and S. cerevisiae (Rambourg et al., 1993; Rambourg et al., 1995b; Rambourg et al., 2001) do not form the characteristic stacks seen in animal and plant cells, and are instead organized as a network of tubules and fenestrated cisternae, denoted Golgi equivalents (GEs). An important finding was that fluorescently tagged Golgi resident proteins can be used to visualize in vivo the different domains of the S. cerevisiae Golgi, which was thoroughly exploited to obtain supporting evidence for the cisternal maturation model (Matsuura-Tokita et al., 2006; Losev et al., 2006), recently modified by the so-called rapid-partitioning model (Patterson et al., 2008; Jackson, 2009).

Recent studies using fluorescently tagged proteins have shown that A. nidulans GEs are polarized (Breakspear et al., 2007; Hubbard and Kaminskyj, 2008). However, these studies have not exploited the possibilities that multidimensional epifluorescence microscopy techniques offer to study the in vivo changes undergone by the Golgi, which is a very dynamic compartment continuously undergoing cisternal maturation, nor have they addressed the morphological and domain organization of GEs, their relationship with the transitional ER, the determinants of GE polarization, and their fate during the morphogenetic transition or during mitosis. Thus, we undertook the characterization in vivo of the organization, morphology, and dynamics of the Golgi in growing A. nidulans hyphae using fluorescent protein–tagged reporters of ER exit sites (ERES), early and late Golgi membrane domains. We addressed the spatial segregation of these domains and the cytoskeletal dependence of the polarization of late Golgi cisternae, which predominate in the region located between the leading nucleus and the growing apex, correlating with polarization of the early Golgi and ERES. The Golgi organization is disrupted by brefeldin A.

	MATERIALS AND METHODS

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Molecular Genetic Manipulations
The gpdA^mini promoter plasmid pgpd003, based on gpdA^mini, an attenuated version of the glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gpdA) promoter, was designed to express mRFP-PH^OSBP at moderately high levels. This vector integrates into the chromosome IV pyroA locus by a single cross-over (see Figure 1A). Transformants carrying single-copy integration events were identified after Southern analysis. Knowing the precise chromosomal location of the transgene facilitated the construction, using classical genetics, of recombinant mRFP-PH^OSBP strains derived from primary transformants. This construct drives expression of full-length mRFP-PH^OSBP, as determined by Western blots (data not shown).

View larger version (25K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Subcellular localization of PtdIns4,5P2 and PtdIns4P fluorescent fusion protein probes. (A) Schematic representation of the constructs and strategies used for targeting them to the pyroA and argB loci. (B) GFP and mRFP channel images correspond to maximal intensity projections of deconvolved z-stacks of a strain coexpressing mRFP-PHOSBP and GFP-(PHPLC)2. (C) Maximal intensity projection of a z-stack series of deconvolved images of a strain expressing GFP-(PHPLC)2.

The tandemly repeated PH domain of rat phospholipase C 1 (PLC) (Stefan et al., 2002) was PCR amplified (primers 11 and 12), N-terminally tagged with GFP (GFP-2xPLC), and expressed from a second expression vector, denoted pgpd-argB. Unlike pgpd003, pgpd-argB carries the complete gpdA promoter (Punt et al., 1990), thus driving high levels of expression. pgpd-argB contains an argB^BglII allele which targets integration into the chromosome III argB locus of strains carrying the argB2 mutation (Mingot et al., 1999).

HypB^Sec7, AnSec23, and GrhA were C-terminally tagged with GFP after homologous-recombination–mediated replacement of the resident hypB^SEC7, Ansec23, and grhA genes by linear fusion PCR products, as described (Yang et al., 2008). hypB^SEC7-gfp, Ansec23-gfp, and grhA-gfp drive expression, under the control of the respective physiological promoters, of the corresponding fusion proteins, in which the GFP tag is separated from the respective C termini by a (Gly-Ala)5 linker peptide (Szewczyk et al., 2006). cDNA database sequence coverage confirmed that the in silico predictions of the C termini of AnSec23 and GrhA in the A. nidulans genome database are correct.

Aspergillus Techniques
A. nidulans strains carried markers in standard use (Clutterbuck, 1993; See also http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/molgen/aspergillus/index.html). Standard genetic techniques were used throughout. Strains used in this work are detailed in Supplemental Table S2. Constructs and PCR products were integrated into the genome after transformation (Tilburn et al., 1983). Integration events were in all cases verified by Southern analysis. PCR-derived constructs were sequenced to confirm the absence of thermostable polymerase-induced mutations.

Image Acquisition
For all microscopy experiments, A. nidulans cells were cultured in "watch minimal medium" (WMM; Peñalva, 2005), using an incubation temperature of 25 to 27°C unless otherwise indicated.

mRFP-PH^OSBP-labeling of GEs was affected by anaerobiosis or mechanical pressure resulting from mounting hyphae on microscopy slides, after which fluorescence became markedly cytoplasmic in <5 min. Thus, fluorescence microscopy experiments were in all cases performed in vivo, using Lab-Tek chambered coverglasses (Nalge Nunc International, Rochester NY) and a PeCon heating insert (PeCon, Erbach, Germany) driven by a two-channel Leica 37-2 digital temperature controller (Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany). We used an inverted Leica DMI6000B microscope with motorized z-focus and a Leica EL6000 external light source for epifluorescence excitation, which includes a built-in excitation shutter. The microscope was driven by Metamorph (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) software using a DMI6000-specific driver. Images were acquired using HCX x63 1.4 numerical aperture (NA) or x100 1.4 NA objectives and a Hamamatsu ORCA ER-II cooled-charge coupled device camera (Hamamatsu Photonics, Massy, France). The microscope was equipped with Semrock Brightline GFP-3035B and TXRED-4040B filter sets (Semrock, Rochester, NY). The fluorescence of the mRFP-PH^OSBP Golgi reporter is robust and compatible with relatively low exposure times. However, for time lapse acquisition involving dual wavelength or z-stack series for relatively long time periods (such as those acquired to analyze recovery after drug washout or the fate of the Golgi during mitosis), we additionally used attenuated excitation light in combination with image binning.

In time-lapse experiments showing the absence of colocalization of GrhA-GFP and mRFP-PH^OSBP "brefeldin bodies" (Supplemental Movie S11) and the lack of effect of BFA on An Sec23-GFP (which involved coimaging with mRFP-PH^OSBP brefeldin bodies, Supplemental Figure S2), we used a Dual-View DV2 image splitter (Photometrics, Tucson, AZ) optimized for simultaneous two-color imaging of GFP and mRFP.

Image Processing and Statistical Analyses
Image acquisition, kymographs, contrast adjustment, and color combining were made using Metamorph (Invitrogen). Maximal intensity projections were obtained from z-stacks using the Metamorph 3D plugin and, when indicated, were further contrasted using the "sharpening" algorithm. Images were converted to 8-bit greyscale or 24-bit RGB and annotated using Corel Draw before being saved to TIFF. Time-lapse sequences were time-scaled and assembled into movies using appropriate Metamorph plugins and converted to Quicktime movies using ImageJ 1.37 http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij. When indicated, images were deconvolved using the blind deconvolution algorithms of AutoDeblur software (Autoquant X2, MediaCybernetics, Bethesda, MD).

The polarized distribution of GEs ahead of the leading nucleus was estimated using strain MAD2060 (Supplemental Table S2), expressing mRFP-PH^OSBP and GFP-PacC²⁷. Maximal intensity projections of z-stacks were used to determine the average fluorescence intensity in regions of interest corresponding to the area between two successive nuclei and between the apex and the leading nucleus. Values were expressed relative to the fluorescence of the latest, which was arbitrarily set as 100%.

To estimate the approximate size of GEs in the presence or absence of latrunculin B we chose GEs in tip regions giving rise to approximately circular structures and manually determined their diameters using background-subtracted images. We measured n = 31 particles (5 untreated hyphae) and n = 52 particles (5 hyphae treated for 1 h with latrunculin).

Statistical analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism 5.00 for Windows (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA). Consistency of analyzed values with a Gaussian distribution was assessed using the D'Agostino and Pearson test of normality. Statistical significance of observed differences was estimated using the unpaired t test (one or two-tailed) for Gaussian distributions or the Mann–Whitney test for non-Gaussian distributions.

Inhibitor Treatments
These were essentially made as described (Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008), using pH 6.5 WMM. Hyphae were cultured in incubating chambers for about 16h at 25°C before removing the medium and replacing it with the same amount of prewarmed medium containing the inhibitor or, in control experiments, with an equivalent amount of the stock solution solvent. Inhibitors were removed after four washes with prewarmed WMM.

Brefeldin A (BFA, Fluka, Buchs, Switzerland) was added from a 10 mg/ml stock in DMSO at final concentrations of 100 or 300 µg/ml. Rates of apical extension were determined in germlings that were cultured in the presence of 300 µg/ml BFA or of the corresponding amount of the BFA solvent DMSO for 8 to 9 h at 28°C. Extension rates were determined by measuring the changes in hyphal tip position using Nomarski photographs taken every 2 min over a 10-min time period.

Latrunculin B (LatB) was used as described (Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008), at a final concentration of 40 µg/ml (100 µM). The drug was added from a 10 mM stock in DMSO. Hyphae were incubated in the presence of latrunculin B for a maximum period of 45 min, after which the inhibitor was washed out and hyphal tips resumed growth, usually from subapical regions.

Benomyl (Horio and Oakley, 2005) was added at final concentrations of 5 µg/ml (17.2 µM) from a 5 mM stock in ethanol. Hyphae were incubated in the presence of benomyl for a maximum period of 1 h, after which the inhibitor was washed out and hyphal tips resumed growth.

Early Endosome Labeling
Early endosomes were labeled with GFP-RabA^Rab5 (Abenza et al., 2009). To coimage GFP-RabA^Rab5early endosomes and mRFP-PH^OSBP, MAD2195 and MAD2196 strains (Supplemental Table S2) were cultured at 25°C for 14h in WMM supplemented with 0.1% (wt/vol) glucose as sole carbon source (noninducing conditions for the alcA^p driving expression of RabA^Rab5; Abenza et al., 2009) and shifted for 3 to 4 h to the same medium containing 1% ethanol (vol/vol; inducing conditions for the alcA^p) before microscopic observation.

To determine the spatial relationship of the NudA1 compartment with the most apical GEs, we used nudA1 or kinA mutant strains. kinA alcA^p::gfp::rabA^RAB5 gpdA^mini::mrfp::PH^OSBP strains (MAD2120 or MAD2122) were cultured at 25°C and subjected to ethanol induction as above. nudA1 strains MAD2106 or MAD2107 (nudA1 alcA^p::gfp::rabA^RAB5 gpdA^mini::mrfp::PH^OSBP) (Supplemental Table S2) were cultured at the 25°C permissive temperature for 14 h before being shifted to 1% ethanol-WMM for 3 h as described above, and further incubated for an additional 1 to 4 h at 42°C. Appropriate controls expressing each fluorescent fusion protein alone were set up to rule out the possibility of cross-talk between the red and green channels.

	RESULTS

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mRFP-PH^OSBP Localizes to Golgi Equivalents but not to the Plasma Membrane
A previous study used GFP-CopA (CopA encodes -COP, a component of the COPI coat) to study the A. nidulans Golgi (Breakspear et al., 2007). The role of COPI vesicles within the Golgi is not fully understood (Béthune et al., 2006) and, in S. cerevisiae, COPI is present in both early and late GEs (Rossanese et al., 2001). As we were particularly interested in the in vivo dynamics of GEs in the context of apical secretion, we constructed a robust trans-Golgi-specific reporter. gpdA^mini::mRFP-PH^OSBP encodes a protein consisting of the pleckstrin homology domain of the human oxysterol binding protein (PH^OSBP) fused to mRFP. PH^OSBP is recruited to the cytosolic face of trans-Golgi membranes through the combinatorial recognition of PtIns4P and of the Golgi GTPase Arf1 (Levine and Munro, 2002). This construct, which expresses mRFP-PH^OSBP at moderately high levels to minimize exposure times during time-lapse fluorescence microscopy, was targeted to the pyroA locus by homologous recombination (Figure 1A). A second transgene encoding a tandem repeat of the human phospholipase PH domain (2xPLC) fused to GFP was constructed as specificity control because this tandemly repeated domain binds PtdIns4,5P2 and, in S. cerevisiae, localizes exclusively to the plasma membrane (Stefan et al., 2002; Levine and Munro, 2002). The GFP-2xPLC construct was targeted in single copy to the argB locus (Figure 1A). As predicted, GFP-2xPLC labels exclusively the plasma membrane (Figure 1, B and C). In contrast, mRFP-PH^OSBP (Figure 1B) accumulated instead in intracellular bodies, resembling those that had been visualized with fluorescent versions of proteins predicted to be Golgi residents (Breakspear et al., 2007; Hubbard and Kaminskyj, 2008; Jackson-Hayes et al., 2008).

Characterization of PtdIns4P-Containing Bodies and Colocalization with Sec7, a Resident Protein of the trans-Golgi
GFP-CopA GEs are "doughnut"-like, spherical, and elongated structures showing polarization toward the apex (Breakspear et al., 2007). mRFP-PH^OSBP indeed localizes to strongly polarized GEs (Figures 1B and 2A, and see below) also resembling tubules, hollow rings frequently showing tubular extensions and ellipsoids/spheres (Figure 2B). We exploited the robustness of our fluorescent reporter in time-lapse microscopy studies, which revealed that ellipsoid/spherical mRFP-PH^OSBP GEs are in fact rings of variable diameters containing accretions of intense fluorescence (Figure 2B, Supplemental Movie S1). mRFP-PH^OSBP GEs are interconnected by tubular structures that can be as long as 8 µm (Figure 2, C and D, and Supplemental Movie S1). In addition, fenestrated structures connected by tubules could clearly be seen in deconvolved images (Figure 2C). We conclude that the A. nidulans Golgi does not form stacks and involves a very dynamic network of tubules, rings, and fenestrated structures undergoing rapid changes in morphology. This network likely corresponds to the fenestrated sheets or ring structures with tubular projections seen in EM studies (Howard, 1981; Kurtz et al., 1994; see Bourett et al., 2007 for a review).

View larger version (52K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Organization, dynamics, and morphology of GEs labeled with mRFP-PHOSBP. All images are shown in inverted contrast for clarity. (A) Polarization of GEs shown in a long hypha. The image is a maximal intensity projection of a z-stack series. (B) Ring-shaped structures (long arrows), accretions of stronger fluorescence (short arrows), and tubular extensions (open arrow) in the hyphal tip cell displayed in Supplemental Movie S1. The distance between the most apical, prominent Golgi body and the tip is indicated. (C) Deconvolved image showing a hyphal tip that contains a fenestrated structure connected to other polygonal structures by tubular extensions, which are indicated by arrowheads. (D) An example of a long tubular extension that connects a network of Golgi bodies. (E) A hyphal tip showing (in inverted contrast) a cloud of mRFP-PHOSBP at the apical dome. A line scan is shown to illustrate the increase in fluorescence near the apex. Bar, 5 µm.

Golgi recruitment of the PH^OSBP domain is largely dependent on PtdIns4P, indicating that the Golgi membranes visualized with mRFP-PH^OSBP are trans-Golgi domains (Levine and Munro, 2002; Behnia and Munro, 2005). To confirm this prediction, we constructed a GFP-tagged version of A. nidulans Sec7, denoted HypB (Yang et al., 2008), because S. cerevisiae Sec7p is a prototypic resident of the trans-Golgi (Achstetter et al., 1988; Matsuura-Tokita et al., 2006; Losev et al., 2006). HypB^Sec7-GFP was expressed at physiological levels after gene replacement. Strains carrying this allele showed no growth defect, strongly indicating that the fusion protein is fully functional.

HypB^Sec7-GFP displays markedly lower levels of fluorescence than mRFP-PH^OSBP. Despite this relatively weak signal, rings, fenestrated structures, and tubules are nearly discernable in unprocessed images (not shown) and were clearly resolved after deconvolution. Time lapse movies revealed that these structures appear to undergo frequent exchange of membranes (Figure 3A and Supplemental Movie S4). As with mRFP-PH^OSBP, HypB^Sec7-GFP GEs show polarized distribution. Indeed HypB^Sec7-GFP colocalized with mRFP-PH^OSBP in live specimens (Figure 3B) and fixed cells (data not shown). We conclude that rings, fenestrated structures, and tubules genuinely represent the morphology of GEs at the resolution of the light microscope and that the A. nidulans membranes visualized with mRFP-PH^OSBP represent the trans-Golgi.

View larger version (38K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 3. Dynamics of trans-Golgi equivalents as seen with HypBSec7-GFP and colocalization with mRFP-PHOSBP. (A) The different panels, corresponding to Supplemental Movie S4, are projections of deconvolved z-stacks taken at the indicated time-points. The arrows indicate two connected ring-shaped structures, one of which appears to increase in fluorescence at the expense of the other. The arrow sizes have been increased or decreased with the relative intensity of their corresponding ring structures. (B) Colocalization of mRFP-PHOSBP and HypBSec7-GFP. A strain carrying the transgenes expressing the two fluorescent reporters was photographed using GFP and mRFP specific filter sets. The two reporters overlap. Bar, 5 µm.

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Within the subapical region devoid of trans-Golgi membranes, we could frequently visualize a haze of fluorescent material associated with the apical dome (Figure 2E). In appropriately contrasted time lapse movies, we could observe how clouds of mRFP-PH^OSBP membranes appear to detach from the most anterior GEs, reaching the plasma membrane of the apical dome (Supplemental Movie S3). We hypothesize that these clouds correspond to secretory tubules/vesicles arising from the trans-Golgi.

GE Polarization and Nuclear Distribution: GEs Are not Disassembled during Mitosis
A. nidulans apical cells are multinucleated. The region near the tip appears to play a major role in secretion because MTs associated with the first mitotic spindle do not disassemble in mitosis, ensuring that growth continues at normal rate (Horio and Oakley, 2005). Thus, we determined the intracellular distribution of the Golgi relative to nuclei labeled with the PacC²⁷ transcription factor, which is exclusively nuclear during interphase (Mingot et al., 2001; Fernández-Martínez et al., 2003). We coimaged mRFP-PH^OSBP with GFP-PacC²⁷ and quantified, in n = 9 apical cells, mRFP-PH^OSBP fluorescence in the region between the apex and the "leading" nucleus and in increasingly distal internuclear regions. This analysis demonstrated that GEs are strongly polarized ahead of the leading nucleus and that their relative density within a given internuclear region decreases with the distance to the tip (Figure 4, A and B). Previous work with Candida albicans established that GEs redistribute toward the growing tip during the yeast-to-hypha transition (Rida et al., 2006). Thus, we studied the polarization of A. nidulans GEs during germ-tube emergence. Figure 4C shows that GEs are randomly distributed in isotropically growing conidiospores. As soon as polarity is established, GEs migrate into the germ-tube primordium and polarize as the germtube undergoes apical extension. Golgi polarization occurs before the leading nucleus (arrowed) migrates into the germtube (Figure 4C).

View larger version (37K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 4. Polarization of GEs ahead of the leading nucleus. A strain coexpressing GFP-PacC27 and mRFP-PHOSBP was photographed. (A) Maximal intensity projections of z-stack series of hyphal tip cells were used to define regions of interest in the area located ahead of the leading nucleus as well as in the internuclear regions. The average intensity in these regions was determined in n = 9 hyphal tip cells. The average fluorescence intensity of successive internuclear regions was plotted relative to that of the leading region. (B) Quantification of average pixel intensity in the red and green channels across the 8-pixel-wide line shown in the maximal intensity projection image, clearly illustrating polarization ahead of the leading nucleus. (C) GEs are randomly distributed during the isotropic growth phase and polarize to the growing apex as soon as polarity is established, before the leading nucleus migrates into the germtube. Panels in the left column show mRFP-PHOSBP Golgi equivalents, whereas those in the right column show the same images merged with the GFP-PacC27 channel. The positions of two nuclei are indicated by arrows.

In A. nidulans, the mitosis is closed but, in contrast to S. cerevisiae, the hyphal tip cell contains multiple nuclei whose nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are disassembled at the onset of mitosis, allowing the nuclear entry of tubulin (De Souza et al., 2004). To address the fate of GEs during mitosis we used as direct criterion for mitotic entry/exit the release to the cytosol of a proportion of GFP-PacC²⁷ [following NPC disassembly at G2/M, the fraction of PacC²⁷ that is not DNA-bound is released to the cytosol (De Souza et al., 2004; Araujo-Bazán et al., 2008a)]. The nuclei enter mitosis in a nearly simultaneous manner, resulting in a conspicuous increase of cytosolic GFP-PacC²⁷ fluorescence. Figure 5 (Supplemental Movie S5) shows two nuclei undergoing mitosis (frames 2, 3, and 4, note the increase in cytosolic GFP fluorescence compared with G2 [frame 1] or G1 [frames 5 and 6], after mitotic exit). Supplemental Figure S1 shows two nuclei captured in G2, prophase/metaphase, late anaphase, and telophase. No significant differences in Golgi organization or polarization were detectable throughout. We conclude that the A. nidulans Golgi remains intact during mitosis.

View larger version (44K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 5. The Golgi is not disassembled during mitosis. The images shown are maximal intensity projections of z-stack series and correspond to frames from Supplemental Movie S5. Time is in min:sec. Note the cytosolic GFP fluorescence due to partial release of PacC27 from the nuclei to the cytosol during mitosis (second, third, and fourth time points).

AnSec23-GFP localizes to a cytosolic haze and to numerous small fluorescent foci that are markedly more abundant than mRFP-PH^OSBP GEs. Although these foci are present across the entire length of the cells, they clearly predominate near the tips. This predominance is more conspicuous in rapidly growing hyphae than in more slowly growing germlings (Figure 6, A and B; Supplemental Figure S4). Fluorescence intensity analyses established that AnSec23 ERES are more abundant in the two internuclear regions nearest to the tip (considering as the nearest the one located between the leading nucleus and the apex) than in more distal internuclear regions (Figure 6I). Moreover, AnSec23 foci clearly polarized into new tips emerging after reversal of LatB-mediated inhibition of apical extension (Supplemental Movie S15, see below). AnSec23 ERES are not excluded from the apex-proximal region, closely approaching the apical dome plasma membrane (Figure 6, A–D). As AnSec23-GFP foci do not colocalize with mRFP-PH^OSBP GEs, the lack of a region of exclusion of ERES near the apex is best illustrated in dual channel images of a strain coexpressing both markers (Figure 6D). Time-lapse movies revealed that foci undergo rapid short-distance pulsatory movements (Figure 6C) (Supplemental Movie S6).

View larger version (47K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 6. The subcellular localization and dynamics of early Golgi membranes and ERES. (A) Localization of ERES labeled with AnSec23-GFP in a germling. The image is a maximal intensity projection of a deconvolved z-stack series. Polarization is illustrated by the linescan in the insert. (B) Polarization of ERES in a hyphal tip. The image is a maximal intensity projection of a z-stack series. The line scan below, starting from the apex, demonstrates polarization. Bar, 5 µm. (C) Dynamics of AnSec23-GFP foci. The image corresponds to a time-lapse series made with frames taken every 500 msec. The kymograph shown below corresponds to the indicated 20-µm-long line. (D) Dual channel imaging of AnSec23-GFP and mRFP-PHOSBP GEs. The arrows indicate the position of two nuclei. Note that AnSec23-GFP foci reach the apical dome. (E) Maximal intensity projection of a z-stack series illustrating polarization of GrhA-GFP punctate structures. Bar, 10 µm. (F) A kymograph illustrating the dynamics of GrhA-GFP structures across a 40-µm line that starts at the apex of the cell displayed in Supplemental Movie S7. For comparison, the kymograph is displayed at the same scale than that in C. (G) Single plane of a deconvolved z-stack series showing that GrhA-GFP appears to label accretions connected to a tubular network (examples indicated with arrows). (H) Dual channel imaging of GrhA-GFP and mRFP-PHOSBP GEs. The inset shows how early but not trans-Golgi elements reach the apical dome. (I) Analyses of AnSec23-GFP and GrhA-GFP fluorescence. The average fluorescence intensity in the successive internuclear regions was determined and plotted relative to that measured in the region between the leading nucleus and the apex, which was set as 100% and considered as region no. 1. For AnSec23, the position of the nuclei in n = 10 rapidly growing hyphae was inferred because some ERES associate with the nuclear envelope (see D). For GrhA-GFP, the position of the nuclei in n = 14 hyphae was inferred from the regions of cytoplasmic fluorescence exclusion.

Like trans-Golgi elements, GrhA-GFP early Golgi structures are polarized (Figure 6, E, F, and I). In deconvolved z-stacks, some GrhA-GFP structures appear to be accretions within a network of fainter tubular structures (Figure 6G). Time-lapse movies (Supplemental Movie S7) showed that a major proportion of GrhA structures generally undergoes pulsatory short-distance movement similar to that of AnSec23-GFP foci. However, examples of GrhA-GFP structures that move for longer distances in either direction were not infrequent (Figure 6F), although this movement was clearly slower than that of early endosomes (see below). Importantly, GrhA structures are not excluded from the tip, where they nearly reach the actual apex (Figure 6H).

Brefeldin A Reversibly Impairs A. nidulans Apical Extension
In mammalian cells (Lippincott-Schwartz et al., 1991; Sciaky et al., 1997) and in fungi (Rambourg et al., 1995a; Deitz et al., 2000, Rida et al., 2006), BFA leads to the disassembly of the Golgi. Therefore BFA was predicted to arrest A. nidulans apical extension.

We observed that A. nidulans conidiospore germination is not prevented by 300 µg/ml BFA, suggesting that the fungus is largely resistant. This was unexpected, because others reported effects on A. nidulans GEs of concentrations as low as 10 µg/ml (Hubbard and Kaminskyj, 2008). Thus, we investigated this apparent resistance further. We observed a significant drop in apical extension in 300 µg/ml BFA-treated germlings compared with mock-treated (with the BFA solvent DMSO) controls (0.144 ± 0.013 µm · min^–1, n = 28 vs. 0.202 ± 0.018 µm · min^–1, n = 26; p = 0.0059), indicating that this high concentration of the drug, although clearly sublethal, impairs exocytic traffic. We next examined the effects of BFA on rapid apical extension in hyphae, where the strongest dependence on secretion was anticipated. Apical extension was largely decreased (100 µg/ml) or abolished (300 µg/ml) by BFA at 10 to 15 min after drug addition (data not shown and Supplemental Movies S8 to S12), correlating with slight tip swelling (Figure 7, A and B, arrows). However, growth in the presence of the drug was spontaneously and slowly resumed after 60 min (data not shown). Arrested tips resume normal growth after washing out BFA, indicating reversibility (Supplemental Movies S8 to S12). This critical control demonstrates that BFA-induced changes in the Golgi to be described below cannot be attributed to cell death. In view of the recovery seen after long incubation times in the presence of BFA, we restricted our observations to the early time points (always <40 min) after drug addition.

View larger version (48K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 7. The effects of brefeldin A on the organization of the Golgi. (A) Maximal intensity projections of z-stack series (5 planes) of a hyphal tip cell expressing mRFP-PHOSBP, before and after exposure to 300 µg/ml BFA. The projections were adjusted with the sharpening algorithm of Metamorph to improve visualization of GEs. (B) Recovery of the Golgi organization (determined with mRFP-PHOSBP) after BFA washout. The images, corresponding to Supplemental Movie S8, are maximal intensity projections of z-stack series (each z-stack containing 3 planes, to minimize photodamage). In both A and B, arrows indicate swollen tips. (C) As in A, but the imaged strain expresses HypBSec7-GFP. Images are frames taken from Supplemental Movie S9. (D) Colocalization of mRFP-PHOSBP and HypBSec7-GFP in brefeldin bodies. The experiment was carried out in the presence of 100 µg/ml BFA. (E) Brefeldin bodies are not associated with nuclei. A strain coexpressing GFP-PacC27 and mRFP-PHOSBP was photographed before and after addition of BFA. The images are frames taken from Supplemental Movie S10.

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To further support our conclusions, we conducted similar studies using HypB^Sec7-GFP, which confirmed that loss of GE polarization, aggregation of Golgi bodies and subsequent wash-out-induced recovery were equally seen with this reporter (Figure 7C and Supplemental Movie S9). Indeed HypB^Sec7-GFP and mRFP-PH^OSBP colocalized in the aggregates (Figure 7D). Thus, the A. nidulans trans-Golgi undergoes major changes but is not completely disorganized by BFA. The somewhat regular distribution of trans-Golgi BFA aggregates along the hyphal cells does not reflect association with the evenly spaced nuclei (Figure 7E; Supplemental Movie S10).

Using GrhA-GFP, we determined that early Golgi cisternae also aggregate in the presence of BFA (Figure 8A and Supplemental Movie S11), although this effect was somewhat less strong than that seen with mRFP-PH^OSBP or HypB^Sec7-GFP. Early Golgi recovery after washout is somewhat faster than that of the trans-Golgi (not shown). This aggregating effect of BFA is Golgi-specific as Sec23-GFP ERES were unaffected by the drug (Supplemental Figure S2; Supplemental Movie S12). Unexpectedly, although both early and trans-Golgi membranes form BFA-induced aggregates, strictly simultaneous dual channel imaging (using a Dual-View, see materials and Methods) revealed that the corresponding reporters localize to different brefeldin bodies (Figure 8 and Supplemental Movie S11), indicating that early and trans-Golgi membranes segregate spatially when the BFA target(s) is/are inhibited.

View larger version (39K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 8. mRFP-PHOSBP and GrhA-GFP Golgi membranes aggregate into different brefeldin bodies. (A) GrhA-GFP relocalizes to aggregates upon BFA treatment of cells only expressing this fluorescent reporter. (B) A hyphal tip cell of a strain coexpressing GrhA-GFP and mRFP-PHOSBP reporters depicted after BFA treatment. Images correspond to a hyphal tip cell photographed at 25 min after BFA addition. The GFP and mRFP channels were acquired simultaneously using a DV2 Dual-View emission splitter. GrhA-GFP and mRFP-PHOSBP aggregate into different bodies (see also Supplemental Movie S11).

The Effects of Cytoskeletal Inhibitors on the Golgi and on Transitional ER
MTs are essential for rapid hyphal growth (Horio and Oakley, 2005; Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008). A previous report concluded, using nocodazol, that MTs do not have a major role in the polarization of Golgi equivalents (Breakspear et al., 2007). This study examined the effects of depolymerising MTs on GEs at a relatively late time point (2 h) after adding the drug, but no observations were made earlier; in addition, we examined ERES, early and trans-Golgi specific reporters, rather than -COP.

We verified, using TubA (-tubulin)-GFP, that addition of 5 µg/ml benomyl leads to the complete and reversible disassembly of microtubules within 10 min (Supplemental Figure S3, A–C), correlating with a sharp decrease of apical extension rate, often associated with tip bulging (Horio and Oakley, 2005; Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008). In benomyl-treated cells, mRFP-PH^OSBP GEs appeared to concentrate in the bulged tips, getting closer to the apical plasma membrane but maintaining their polarization ahead of the leading nucleus (Supplemental Figure S3). On benomyl washout, normal tips emerged from the bulged regions and GEs polarized into these tips as they underwent apical extension (Supplemental Movie S13). AnSec23-GFP ERES and GrhA-GFP membranes similarly concentrated in the bulged tips upon benomyl treatment and did not depolarize (Supplemental Figure S4). We note, however, that MTs help to position the F-actin dependent tip growth apparatus (Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008) and therefore these effects of benomyl could be indirect.

A previous study (Hubbard and Kaminskyj, 2008) addressed the role of F-actin in the dynamics of GFP-CopA A. nidulans GEs using a relatively low concentration of latrunculin B (5 µg/ml), which possibly results in incomplete disorganization of F-actin. However, the role of F-actin in the polarization of A. nidulans Golgi has not been analyzed in detail, nor has it been determined whether the Golgi morphology is dependent on the actin cytoskeleton. These studies are relevant because previous work established that GEs polarize in Candida albicans hyphae in an actin-dependent manner (Rida et al., 2006).

Thus we used latrunculin B at a concentration (40 µg/ml) that completely and reversibly disorganizes endocytic actin patches (Figure 9A). Within a few minutes after drug addition AbpA^Abp1 patches were disassembled, growth stopped and hyphal tips underwent bulging as we reported previously (Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008; Araujo-Bazán et al., 2008b; Figure 9A). Growth was restored (frequently from "split tips") and endocytic patches reassembled 1 h after washing out the drug (Figure 9A). Latrunculin led to clear depolarization of mRFP-PH^OSBP GEs, despite the fact that the most anterior GEs appear to collapse against the bulged tips (Figure 9; compare C and D). In addition, the density of GEs per unit length increased significantly (0.92 ± 0.06 bodies/µm in n = 10 untreated tips vs. 1.58 ± 0.14 bodies/µm in n = 10 treated ones; p = 0.001), correlating with a 25% reduction in their average size (Figure 9, B and D'). Finally, ring-shaped GEs were hardly resolved in deconvolved images of latrunculin-treated tips (Figure 9, compare panels C' and D'), although this effect might just reflect the overall reduction in GE average size noted above (i.e., the central "hollow" area might fall below resolution). Washout experiments showed that the effect of latrunculin on the polarization of mRFP-PH^OSBP GEs was reversed one hour after removing the drug, coinciding with resumption of growth from split or bulged tips (Figure 9E; Supplemental Movie S14). GEs migrated into these new tips after the newly established polarity axes and ring-shaped GEs reappeared (Figure 9E'). We conclude that F-actin plays a role both in determining the morphology and the polarization of trans-Golgi membranes.

View larger version (62K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 9. Involvement of F-actin in the organization and polarization of GEs. (A) Control experiment showing latrunculin B-mediated reversible disassembly of AbpAAbp1 patches. These patches, which are present across the complete length of the hyphae, form a prominent subapical ring (before). On latrunculin B treatment, these patches are disassembled and AbpAAbp1 becomes cytosolic. The latrunculin B (Lat B)-treated tip corresponds to a sample incubated for 12 min in the presence of 40 µg/ml latrunculin and is a maximal intensity projection of four z-planes. The tip shows the characteristic Lat B–induced apical swelling. At 1h after Lat B washout, apical growth was resumed and the subapical rings of AbpAAbp1 were reassembled. (B) The size of Golgi bodies is significantly lower (p = 0.0001) in the presence of Lat B. Statistical significance was determined using a two-tailed unpaired t test. (C) Polarization and organization of GEs before Lat B treatment. The upper image is a maximal intensity projection of a 7-image z-stack series. The boxed image below is a maximal intensity projection of the same planes after deconvolution. Note the characteristic irregular ring shaped structures connected by tubules. (D) Polarization and organization of GEs in the presence of 40 µg/ml Lat B. The image is a maximal intensity projection of a 5-image z-stack series and the boxed image below is a maximal intensity projection of the same planes after deconvolution. Note the smaller punctate appearance of GEs and their proximity to the bulged tip. (E) Repolarization of GEs after Lat B washout. The large image (a maximal intensity projection of a 5-image z-stack series) shows one example of a hypha in which growth was resumed from three nearly adjacent polarity axes. The picture was taken at 1 h after Lat B washout. It clearly shows how GEs predominate toward the region where the three new tips emerge and within the growing tips themselves. The boxed image is a maximal intensity projection of the same planes after deconvolution. Note how ring-shaped structures are clearly discernable near the tips. The images in C, D, and E are shown at the same magnification to facilitate comparison, with the bar in C representing 5 µm. The maximal intensity projections in the larger images were processed using the sharpen algorithm of Metamorph to improve visualization.

trans-Golgi Elements Are Relatively Static Compared with Early Endosomes and do not Reach the Dynein Loading Zone
One feature unequivocally distinguishing the Golgi and early endosomes is the absence of long-distance movement of GEs. GFP-RabA^Rab5 early endosomes show rapid bidirectional movement on MTs tracks (Abenza et al., 2009), contrasting with the relatively slow, short distance movement of mRFP-PH^OSBP Golgi equivalents (Figure 10, A and B; Supplemental Movie S16). Occasionally, early endosomes associate with GEs before or after undergoing movement. These data and the time-lapse sequences discussed above unequivocally demonstrate that GEs do not undergo rapid tip-directed movement, in disagreement with a previous report (Hubbard and Kaminskyj, 2008).

View larger version (36K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 10. The relationship of the Golgi with early endosomes. (A) Still image corresponding to a single plane of Supplemental Movie S16, which illustrates the high motility of early endosomes labeled with GFP-RabARab5 compared with the relatively static GEs. Bar, 5 µm. (B) Kymographs along the dotted line indicated in A of the time series images in the GFP and mRFP channels. (C) The spatial relationship of the most apical GEs with the dynein loading zone. The images correspond to a nudA1 cell incubated at 25°C and shifted to 42°C for 3.5 h.

DISCUSSION
This is the most detailed in vivo characterization of the Golgi reported so far in any filamentous fungus. Like in S. cerevisiae (Matsuura-Tokita et al., 2006; Losev et al., 2006), the A. nidulans Golgi visualized with fluorescent proteins is a dynamic network of ring and fenestrated structures connected by tubular extensions. The robust mRFP-PH^OSBP signal allowed visualization of ring and tubules of the trans-Golgi in untreated epifluorescence images. However, deconvolution was required for visualization of fenestrated structures and facilitated detection of ring-shaped cisternae with physiological levels of HypB^Sec7-GFP.

A. nidulans early Golgi membranes seen with GrhA-GFP are small discs that could not be resolved into rings, which might reflect either the relatively weak signal of this reporter or the fact that GrhA is recruited to discrete sites on membranes. As GrhA-GFP and mRFP-PH^OSBP do not colocalize, we conclude that A. nidulans early and -trans-Golgi cisternae can be resolved by conventional microscopy. Unlike GrhA membranes (see below), AnSec23-GFP ERES appear to be BFA-insensitive. AnSec23-GFP ERES appeared as numerous small foci, indicating that COPII vesicles bud at random from ER membranes. In this pattern of ERES organization, A. nidulans resembles S. cerevisiae rather than Pichia pastoris, which contains a few discrete ERES. Such discrete organization has been proposed to underlie the formation of coherent Golgi stacks resembling the mammalian Golgi (Rossanese et al., 1999). The absence of coherent stacks in A. nidulans agrees with this proposal.

The Polarization of the Golgi and the Tip Growth Apparatus
The A. nidulans hyphal tip contains a network of actin cables radiating from the apex-associated Spitzenkörper (Pearson et al., 2004; Hohmann-Marriott et al., 2006; Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008) and is populated by MTs. In current models (Harris et al., 2005; Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008; Abenza et al., 2009), secretory vesicle transport switches from MT-mediated to actin cable-mediated within the region of the tip. Endocytosis is spatially associated to apical secretion to facilitate endocytic recycling. Cytoskeletal components, lipid domains (Pearson et al., 2004), and endocytic patches act concertedly, conforming a functional unit that has been denoted the tip growth apparatus (Taheri-Talesh et al., 2008). A. nidulans trans-Golgi cisternae are randomly localized in isotropically growing conidia, redistribute toward the nascent tip as soon as polarity is established, and predominate in the region located ahead of the leading nucleus during hyphal apical extension, seemingly moving en bloc in anterograde direction, associated with the growing tip (Supplemental Movies S1 and S2). The dynein loading zone through which early endosomes circulate before undergoing retrograde movement lies ahead of the most anterior (apical) trans-GEs. This arrangement is ideally suited to facilitate recycling of endocytic cargoes internalized in the subapical endocytic ring, which can travel retrogradely on dynein-powered endosomes to reach the most anterior GEs before returning to the plasma membrane via secretion.

An important question is what determines polarization of the trans-Golgi. The observations that AnSec23 and GrhA structures are also polarized suggest that, at least to a certain extent, the polarization of the trans-Golgi reflects the distribution of ERES and early Golgi compartments, but do not rule out other possibilities. In S. cerevisiae, trans-GEs concentrate into the polarized nascent bud by an actin cable-dependent mechanism (Rossanese et al., 2001). Septin and F-actin dependent polarization of GEs has also been demonstrated in C. albicans hyphae (Rida et al., 2006). Thus, it is tempting to speculate that polarization of A. nidulans ERES and trans-GEs involves actin cables radiating from the apex-associated SepA formin (Pearson et al., 2004).

LatB leads to fragmentation and depolarization of trans-Golgi GEs and to depolarization of ERES. BFA promotes the aggregation of early and trans-Golgi membranes. Both drugs arrest apical extension. In every instance examined, resumption of growth after washout correlated with reacquisition of the normal polarization or morphology of these compartments, which underscores the crucial role that secretion plays in hyphal apical extension.

Whereas A. nidulans trans-Golgi membranes are absent from a 3–5 µm region behind the apex, ERES and early Golgi cisternae reach the apical dome. Thus, there might be a mechanism that specifically mediates retrieval of trans-Golgi cisternae inappropriately reaching the apical dome, perhaps corresponding to retrograde movements of mRFP-PH^OSBP membranes that we observed at the apical edge of the trans-Golgi (Supplemental Movies S1–S3). We speculate that this retrograde transport is dynein-mediated, resembling the dynein-mediated movement of Golgi cisternae toward the centrosome that determines their perinuclear localization in mammalian cells (Corthesy-Theulaz et al., 1992; Vaughan et al., 2002).

The Brefeldin Bodies
Like A. nidulans, S. cerevisiae is largely insensitive to BFA (Graham et al., 1993). In hypersensitive S. cerevisiae erg6 mutants, BFA leads to the formation of abnormal spheroids ("brefeldin organelles"; Rambourg et al., 1995a; Deitz et al., 2000). The organization of the wild-type A. nidulans Golgi is dramatically perturbed by BFA. Within 2 to 5 min of treatment, apical extension is dramatically slowed or even completely arrested, hyphal tips undergo a characteristic swelling and early and trans-Golgi membranes lose their polarization, forming large aggregates (brefeldin bodies).

Notably, whereas trans-Golgi markers HypB^Sec7-GFP and mRFP-PH^OSBP colocalize in the same BFA aggregates, these are different from those formed by GrhA-GFP (early Golgi) membranes, demonstrating that these reporters label different Golgi domains. These data would be consistent with BFA acting at two different levels. In S. cerevisiae, BFA targets the Sec7 domain-containing Arf GEFs Gea1/Gea2p and Sec7p (Peyroche et al., 1999), acting at early and trans-Golgi cisternae, respectively.

	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 
We thank Tim Levine (Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom) and María Molina (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain) for PH domain constructs, two anonymous referees and the Monitoring Editor for useful suggestions, and Herb Arst and Joan Tilburn for critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by DGICYT Grant BIO2006-0556 (to M.A.P.) and by a F.E.B.S. postdoctoral fellowship (to A.P.).

	Footnotes

 
This was published online ahead of print in MBC in Press (http://www.molbiolcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1091/mbc.E09-03-0254) on August 19, 2009.

Address correspondence to: Miguel A. Peñalva (penalva{at}cib.csic.es).

Abbreviations used: BFA, brefeldin A; F-actin, filamentous polymers of actin; EM, electron microscopy; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; ERES, ER exit sites; GE, Golgi equivalent; GFP, green fluorescent protein; mRFP, monomeric red fluorescent protein; LatB, latrunculin B; MT(s), microtubule(s); NPCs, nuclear pore complexes; PH, pleckstrin homology domain; OSBP, human oxysterol binding protein; PLC, rat phospholipase 1; SPK, Spitzenkörper; UTR, untranslated region.

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