MDCs are not bound by autophagosomal membranes. (A–C) 2D cross sections and a 3D model derived from five serial 90-nm cell sections of the same yeast strain analyzed in Fig. 1. Sections were immunolabeled with antibodies targeting GFP and secondary antibodies conjugated to 10-nm gold particles. Scale bar = 200 nm. See associated Video 7. (A) Tomograph of a large, multilamellar structure strongly labeled with antibodies targeting Tom70-yEGFP. Yellow arrow: mitochondria, white arrow: multilamellar structure; white arrowheads point to gold particles. (B) Model overlay of the tomograph shown in A. (C) 3D model of a large, multilamellar structure bound by two closely apposed paired membranes. The limiting membrane of the outer doublet membrane is labeled green, while the internal doublet membrane is labeled cyan. Mitochondria: purple, ER: yellow; 10-nm gold particles are overlayed with green spheres. (D) Representative super-resolution confocal fluorescence microscopy images of yeast expressing Tom70-mCherry and sfGFP-Atg8 after a 2-h treatment with 200 nM Rap. White arrow marks MDC, orange arrow marks sfGFP-Atg8–positive structures. The images shown are from the same cell but show different z-slices, which are labeled. Scale bar = 1 µm. (E) Quantification of the frequency sfGFP-Atg8 foci were colocalized or closely associated with Tom70-mCherry–marked MDCs. Error bars show mean ± SE of three replicates, n ≥ 100 MDCs per replicate. (F–I) 2D cross sections and 3D models from different views of the same tomogram shown in Fig. 3, A–C. Scale bars = 200 nm. (F and G) Two different 2D cross sections from a larger view of the same tomogram are shown in Fig. 3, A–C. White arrow: MDC, yellow arrow: mitochondria, orange arrow: autophagosome. (H) Model overlay of the tomograph shown in F. (I) 3D model of a vacuole-associated autophagosome labeled in orange, MDC labeled in green, mitochondria labeled in purple, and the vacuole labeled in red.