ArticlemBio2024
Microsporidia dressing up: the spore polaroplast transport through the polar tube and transformation into the sporoplasm membrane.
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- Microsporidia: evolution, infection mechanisms and host impact.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Ultrastructural insights into the polar tube invasion organelle from microsporidian parasites.Current opinion in microbiology · 2026Review
- Cryo-ET reveals the in situ architecture of the polar tube invasion apparatus from microsporidian parasites.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- A novel ATP-binding cassette protein (NoboABCG1.3) plays a role in the proliferation of Nosema bombycis.Parasitology research · 2024Article
- Ultrastructural insights into the microsporidian infection apparatus reveal the kinetics and morphological transitions of polar tube and cargo during host cell invasion.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Molecular characterization and phylogenetic analyses of MetAP2 gene and protein ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- The microsporidian polar tube: origin, structure, composition, function, and application.Parasites & vectors · 2023Review
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Abstract
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites that infect a wide variety of hosts including humans. Microsporidian spores possess a unique, highly specialized invasion apparatus involving the polar filament, polaroplast, and posterior vacuole. During spore germination, the polar filament is discharged out of the spore forming a hollow polar tube that transports the sporoplasm components including the nucleus into the host cell. Due to the complicated topological changes occurring in this process, the details of sporoplasm formation are not clear. Our data suggest that the limiting membrane of the nascent sporoplasm is formed by the polaroplast after microsporidian germination. Using electron microscopy and 1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3,3',3' tetramethyl indocarbocyanine perchlorate staining, we describe that a large number of vesicles, nucleus, and other cytoplasm contents were transported out via the polar tube during spore germination, while the posterior vacuole and plasma membrane finally remained in the empty spore coat. Two
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