A Woronin body (named after the Russian
botanistMikhail 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]
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^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.
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S2CID11184762.