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Introductory Mycology – Cell Structures
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What are fungi?
• Eukaryotic, spore-bearing, heterotrophic organisms that produce extracellular enzymes and absorb their nutrition.
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Body Plan• unicellular (yeast), filamentous, or both (=dimorphic)
• Hypha (pl. hyphae) is the basic “cellular” unit in filamentous fungi; they may be septate or coenocytic (aseptate); collectively a mycelium
• limited tissue differentiation and division of labor
• somatic & reproductive structures
• plectenchyma: all organized fungal tissue, somatic & reproductive
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Fungal nuclei
•1--3 m diam•3--40 chromosomes•Up to 13--40 Mb (million base pairs) DNA coding for 6,000 to 13,000 genes•Intranuclear division--nuclear envelope remains intact during mitosis (unlike plants and animals)
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Organism # bp # genes
Escherichia coli 4,600,000 4288
Saccharomyces cerevisiae 13,000,000 5885
Caenorhabditis elegans ~100,000,000 ~14,000
Arabidopsis thaliana ~120,000,000 ~10,000
Drosophila melanogaster ~170,000,000 ~12,000
humans ~3,400,000,000 ~80,000
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Fungi as model organisms
•Small genome relative to other eukaryotes•Many fungal genes are homologous to those in other eukaryotes•Easy to grow, short life cycles•Haploid genomes amenable to mutation•Sexual stage for analysis of segregation and recombination of genes; all products of meiosis can be retrieved in haploid spores•Asexual (clonal) reproduction
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Beadle and TatumUsing the common bread mold Neurospora crassa, in 1941 developed the classic concept of “one gene, one enzyme”Awarded Nobel Prize in 1945
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Nuclear Status• Eukaryotic; uni, bi- or multinucleate• Haploid, diploid (less frequent)• Monokaryon (1 nucleus per hyphal compartment)
• Dikaryon (2 nuclei per hyphal compartment) • Homokaryotic
• Heterokaryotic
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• Mitosis– intranuclear: nuclear membrane doesn't
breakdown during mitosis– centric in flagellated forms; typical centrioles
of eukaryotes– noncentric in nonflagellated forms; possess
spindle pole bodies (SPBs); differ from centrioles in lacking microtubular component
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Organelles• typical eukaryote assemblage of organelles
+ fungal specific ones• mitochondria • endoplasmic reticulum • Golgi equivalents
single cisternal elements • vacuoles • microbodies
funx in fatty acid degradation, N metabolism
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Other organelles• Mitochondria—flattened or plate-like
mitochondrial cristae in Fungi (similar to animals)
• Golgi bodies—consist of a single, tubular cisternal element (stacked, plate-like cisternae in animals and plants)
• Other types: – ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, vacuoles, lipid
bodies, glycogen storage particles, microbodies, microtubules, vesicles
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Cell Wall• well defined
• chitin
1-4 n-acetyal glucosamine -glucans
polymers of glucose
1-3 glucose
• cellulose in some
1-4 glucose
chitin -glucans
Chitin
Cellulose
1-3 glucan
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Fungal cell wall composition
Structural components:chitin microfibrils [ß(1-4)-linked polymer of N-acetylglucosamine]chitosan in Zygomycota [ß(1-4)-linked polymer of glucosamine] ß-linked glucans
Gel-like components:Mannoproteins (form matrix throughout wall
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Other cell wall components
Antigenic glycoproteins, agglutinans, adhesions—on cell wall surface Melanins—dark brown to black pigments (confer resistance to enzyme lysis, confer mechanical strength and protect cells from UV light, solar radiation and desiccation)Plasma membrane—semi-permeable
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•fungal specific organelles involved in cell wall growth
Spitzenkorper or vacuole
associated with growing hyphal tips in septate fungi
chitosome
microvesicles transporting chitin synthases to growing cell wall
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Nutrition• Heterotrophic• Secrete extracellular enzymes • Absorptive nutrition• Saprobes: decay dead organic matter• pathogens: biotroph, necrotroph • symbionts: parasites - commensals - mutualists
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Spores - a minute propagative unit functioning as a seed, but differing from it in that a spore does not contain a preformed embryo
Fruiting body - any complex fungal structure that contains or bears spores; a sporocarp
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Reproduction
• Sexual reproduction: spores meiotically derived nuclei
• Homothallic (selfing)• Heterothallic (outcrossing)• Genetic mating system
– MAT loci – 1 to hundreds of “sexes”
• Asexual reproduction– Spores with mitotically derived nuclei
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Fungal Reproduction
• Many fungi have the ability to reproduce by asexual and sexual means
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Asexual Reproduction in Fungi• Fragmentation – hyphae simply break off.
• Budding – small outgrowth of hyphae pinches off
• Formation of spores – Sporangiospores: produced in sporangia (sac-like
structures) located on a sporangiophore.– Conidiospores: produced at the tips of specialized
hyphae
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Fungal reproduction
• Anamorph= asexual stage – Mitospore=spore formed via asexual
reproduction (mitosis), commonly called a conidium or sporangiospore
• Teleomorph= sexual stage– Meiospore=spore formed via sexual
reproduction (e.g., resulting from meiosis), type of spore varies by phylum
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Kingdom Fungi• Phyla:
– Zygomycota• Form asexual spores called sporangiospores• Meiosis occurs in zygospore
– Ascomycota (including Deuteromycetes)• Form asexual spores called conidia• Meiosis occurs in ascus
– Basidiomycota• Meiosis occurs in basidium
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Fungal life cycles
• The vegetative thallus predominates in the life cycle of a fungus
• The thallus may be haploid (1n), dikaryotic (n+n) or diploid (2n) in different groups of fungi
• Ploidy of thallus is determined by the timing of these events in the life cycle:– Plasmogamy (cell fusion)– Karyogamy (nuclear fusion)– Meiosis (reduction division)
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Misc.
• Life cycle: simple to complex; wide variety
• Sporocarps: microscopic or macroscopic, limited tissue differientiation
• Habitat: ubiquitous
• Studied by mycologists!!!!!!
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2n n
Fungal life cycles
Plasmogamy
n n+n
Karyogamy
n+n 2n
Life cycle is predominantly haploid (n)
mitosis
Meiosis
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n n + n
Fungal life cycles
Karyogamy
n + n 2n
Meiosis
2n n
Life cycle is predominantly dikaryotic (n + n)
mitosis
Plasmogamy
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n + n 2n
Fungal life cycles
Meiosis
2n n
Plasmogamy
n n + n
Life cycle is predominantly diploid (2n)
mitosis
Karyogamy
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What are fungi?
• Eukaryotic, spore-bearing, heterotrophic organisms that produce extracelluar enzymes and absorb their nutrition.
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Fungi vs. "fungi"
• Based on the phenotypic definitions or traits attributed to fungi, fungi do not comprise a single monophyletic group of organisms
• more than one evolutionary origin
• not all "fungi" are members of the Kingdom Fungi
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Some characters that separate the the Kingdom Fungi from “protistan fungi”
Kingdom Fungi Protistan fungi
mitochondria: cristae flattened cristae tubular
motile cells: no motile cells or motile cells with anteriorposterior flagellum or lateral
heterokont flagella cell wall carbohydrate: glucans, chitin glucans, cellulose lysine biosynthesis: alpha-aminoadepic acid (AAA) diaminopimelic (DAP)
storage compound glycogen mycolaminarins
sterols ergosterol fucosterol
Phyla: Chytridiomycota Oomycota(emphasized Zygomycota Myxomycotain class) Glomeromycota Dictyosteliomycota
Basidiomycota Ascomycota
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General characteristics of the Phyla of the Kingdom Fungibasal lineages
Zygomycota: (1000)•generally coenocytic mycelium •production of zygosporangia & zygospores•no sporocarp production
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Basidiomycota: (22500)•septate mycelium•clamp connections•complex dolipore septa •dikaryotic, haploid mycelium •production of exospores (basidiospores) on a basidium •production of complex sporocarps
Ascomycota: (35000)•septate mycelium•simple septa •monokaryotic, haploid mycelium •production of endospores (ascospores)
in an ascus •production of complex sporocarps•often dominant asexual reproduction
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Kingdom - Fungi Phylum - Basidiomycota
Class - HymenomycetesOrder - Agaricales
Family - AmanitaceaeGenus - Amanita
Species - A. muscaria
Amanita muscaria
Nomenclature
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Medically important fungi are in four phyla:
1. Ascomycota - Sexual reproduction in a sack called an ascus with the production of ascopspores.( Aspergillus, Blastomyces dermatidis, Histoplasma capsulatus)
2. Basidiomycota -Sexual reproduction in a sack called a basidium with the production of basidiospores.( Cryptococcus neoformans)
3. Zygomycota - sexual reproduction by gametes and asexual reproduction with the formation of zygospores.( Rhizopus, Mucor)
4. Deuteromycota(Fungi Imperfecti \Mitosporic Fungi) - no recognizable form of sexual reproduction. Includes most pathogenic fungi ( Sporothrix, Coccidioides immitis, Candida, Pneumocystis).
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Introductory Mycology- Cell Structure