Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Hyogo, 669-1337, Japan.
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan.
Sci Rep. 2021 Jan 14;11(1):1279. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-80270-9.
Filamentous fungi grow exclusively at their tips, where many growth-related fungal processes, such as enzyme secretion and invasion into host cells, take place. Hyphal tips are also a site of active metabolism. Understanding metabolic dynamics within the tip region is therefore important for biotechnology and medicine as well as for microbiology and ecology. However, methods that can track metabolic dynamics with sufficient spatial resolution and in a nondestructive manner are highly limited. Here we present time-lapse Raman imaging using a deuterium (D) tracer to study spatiotemporally varying metabolic activity within the hyphal tip of Aspergillus nidulans. By analyzing the carbon-deuterium (C-D) stretching Raman band with spectral deconvolution, we visualize glucose accumulation along the inner edge of the hyphal tip and synthesis of new proteins from the taken-up D-labeled glucose specifically at the central part of the apical region. Our results show that deuterium-labeled Raman imaging offers a broadly applicable platform for the study of metabolic dynamics in filamentous fungi and other relevant microorganisms in vivo.
丝状真菌仅在其尖端生长,许多与生长相关的真菌过程,如酶分泌和侵入宿主细胞,都发生在那里。菌丝尖端也是活跃代谢的场所。因此,了解尖端区域的代谢动态对于生物技术和医学以及微生物学和生态学都很重要。然而,能够以足够的空间分辨率和非破坏性方式跟踪代谢动态的方法非常有限。在这里,我们使用氘 (D) 示踪剂展示了延时 Raman 成像,以研究 Aspergillus nidulans 菌丝尖端内时空变化的代谢活性。通过用光谱去卷积分析碳-氘 (C-D) 伸缩 Raman 带,我们可以可视化葡萄糖在菌丝尖端内边缘的积累,并从摄取的 D 标记葡萄糖中特异性地在顶端区域的中央部分合成新的蛋白质。我们的结果表明,氘标记的 Raman 成像为研究丝状真菌和其他相关微生物体内的代谢动态提供了一个广泛适用的平台。