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Eukaryotic Cell, June 2003, p. 398-410, Vol. 2, No. 3
1535-9778/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/EC.2.3.398-410.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Asynchronous Cell Cycle and Asymmetric Vacuolar Inheritance in True Hyphae of Candida albicans

Caroline J. Barelle,1 Erin A. Bohula,2 Stephen J. Kron,2 Deborah Wessels,3 David R. Soll,3 Annette Schäfer,1 Alistair J. P. Brown,1 and Neil A. R. Gow1*

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom,1 Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and Center for Molecular Oncology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637-5419,2 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 522423

Received 2 October 2002/ Accepted 27 March 2003

Candida albicans forms unconstricted hyphae in serum-containing medium that are divided into discrete compartments. Time-lapse photomicroscopy, flow cytometry, and a novel three-dimensional imaging system were used to demonstrate that the kinetics and cell cycle events accompanying hyphal development were correlated with dynamic changes in vacuole morphology and the pattern of vacuole inheritance. Apical cells of hyphae underwent continuous extension before and after the first cytokinesis event. However, the resulting mother cell and sub-apical compartments did not immediately reenter the cell cycle and instead underwent cell cycle arrest before reentering the cycle. Vacuole was inherited asymmetrically at cytokinesis so that the distal, arrested compartments inherited most vacuole and the growing apical cell inherited most cytoplasm. Hydroxyurea release experiments demonstrated that the arrested, vacuolated hyphal compartments were in the G1 phase of the cycle. The period of cell cycle arrest was decreased by the provision of assimilatable forms of nitrogen, suggesting that the hyphal cell cycle is regulated by nitrogen limitation that results in sup-apical cell cycle arrest. This pattern of growth is distinct from that of the synchronous, symmetrical development of pseudohyphae of C. albicans and other yeast species. These observations suggest that the cellular vacuole space correlates with alterations in the cell cycles of different cell types and that the total organelle space may influence size-regulated functions and hence the timing of the eukaryotic cell cycle.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom. Phone: 44-1224-555879. Fax: 44-1224-555844. E-mail: n.gow{at}abdn.ac.uk.

Eukaryotic Cell, June 2003, p. 398-410, Vol. 2, No. 3
1535-9778/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/EC.2.3.398-410.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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