Woronin body

A Woronin body (named after the Russian botanist Mikhail Stepanovich Woronin[2]) is a peroxisome-derived, dense core microbody with a unit membrane found near the septae that divide hyphal compartments in filamentous Ascomycota. One established function of Woronin bodies is the plugging of the septal pores after hyphal wounding, which restricts the loss of cytoplasm to the sites of injury.[3][4]

References
  1. Ng SK, Liu F, Lai J, Low W, Jedd G (2009). "A tether for Woronin body inheritance is associated with evolutionary variation in organelle positioning". PLoS Genet. 5 (6): e1000521. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000521. PMC 2690989. PMID 19543374.
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  4. Yuan, P.; Jedd, G.; Kumaran, D.; Swaminathan, S.; Shio, H.; Hewitt, D.; Chua, N. H.; Swaminathan, K. (2003). "A HEX-1 crystal lattice required for Woronin body function in Neurospora crassa". Nature Structural Biology. 10 (4): 264–270. doi:10.1038/nsb910. PMID 12640443.


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