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Article Dans Une Revue Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Année : 2023

Three-dimensional ultrastructure of Arabidopsis cotyledons infected with Colletotrichum higginsianum

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We used Serial Block-Face Scanning Electron Microscopy (SBF-SEM) to study the host-pathogen interface between Arabidopsis cotyledons and the hemibiotrophic fungus Colletotrichum higginsianum. By combining high-pressure freezing and freeze-substitution with SBF-SEM, followed by segmentation and reconstruction of the imaging volume using IMOD, we created 3D models of the series of cytological events that occur during the Colletotrichum-Arabidopsis susceptible interaction. We found that the host cell membranes underwent massive expansion to accommodate the rapidly growing intracellular hypha. As the fungal infection proceeded from the biotrophic to the necrotrophic stage, the host cell membranes went through increasing levels of disintegration culminating in host cell death. Intriguingly, we documented autophagosomes in proximity to biotrophic hyphae using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and a concurrent increase in autophagic flux between early to mid/late-biotrophic phase of the infection process. Occasionally, we observed osmiophilic bodies in the vicinity of biotrophic hyphae using TEM only and near necrotrophic hyphae under both TEM and SBF-SEM. Overall, we established a method for obtaining serial SBF-SEM images each with a lateral (x-y) pixel resolution of 10nm and an axial (z) resolution of 40nm, that can be reconstructed into interactive 3D models using the freely accessible software IMOD. Application of this method to the Colletotrichum-Arabidopsis pathosystem allowed us to more fully understand the spatial arrangement and morphological architecture of the fungal hyphae after they penetrate epidermal cells of Arabidopsis cotyledons, and the cytological changes the host cell undergoes as the infection progresses towards necrotrophy.

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hal-04394320 , version 1 (15-01-2024)

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Kamesh Regmi, Suchismita Ghosh, Benjamin Levi Koch, Ulla Neumann, Barry Stein, et al.. Three-dimensional ultrastructure of Arabidopsis cotyledons infected with Colletotrichum higginsianum. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2023, 37 (04), pp.396-406. ⟨10.1094/MPMI-05-23-0068-R⟩. ⟨hal-04394320⟩
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