Woronin body

A Woronin body (named after the Russian botanist Mikhail Stepanovich Woronin[1]) is a peroxisome-derived, dense core microbody with a double 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.[2]

References

  1. ^ A Dictionary of Biology. Oxford University Press. 2004. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O6-Woroninbody.html. Retrieved 2009-09-03. 
  2. ^ Managadze, D.; Würtz, C.; Sichting, M.; Niehaus, G.; Veenhuis, M.; Rottensteiner, H. (Jun 2007). "The peroxin PEX14 of Neurospora crassa is essential for the biogenesis of both glyoxysomes and Woronin bodies". Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) 8 (6): 687–701. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0854.2007.00560.x. ISSN 1398-9219. PMID 17461798.  edit