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Jian J, Wang Z, Chen C, Workman CT, Fang X, Larsen TO, Guo J, Sonnenschein EC. Two high-quality Prototheca zopfii genomes provide new insights into their evolution as obligate algal heterotrophs and their pathogenicity. Microbiol Spectr 2024:e0414823. [PMID: 38940543 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.04148-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2024] [Indexed: 06/29/2024] Open
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The majority of the nearly 10,000 described species of green algae are photoautotrophs; however, some species have lost their ability to photosynthesize and become obligate heterotrophs that rely on parasitism for survival. Two high-quality genomes of the heterotrophic algae Prototheca zopfii Pz20 and Pz23 were obtained using short- and long-read genomic as well as transcriptomic data. The genome sizes were 31.2 Mb and 31.3 Mb, respectively, and contig N50 values of 1.99 Mb and 1.26 Mb. Although P. zopfii maintained its plastid genome, the transition to heterotrophy led to a reduction in both plastid and nuclear genome size, including the loss of photosynthesis-related genes from both the nuclear and plastid genomes and the elimination of genes encoding for carotenoid oxygenase and pheophorbide an oxygenase. The loss of genes, including basic leucine-zipper (bZIP) transcription factors, flavin adenine dinucleotide-linked oxidase, and helicase, could have played a role in the transmission of autotrophy to heterotrophs and in the processes of abiotic stress resistance and pathogenicity. A total of 66 (1.37%) and 73 (1.49%) genes were identified as potential horizontal gene transfer events in the two P. zopfii genomes, respectively. Genes for malate synthase and isocitrate lyase, which are horizontally transferred from bacteria, may play a pivotal role in carbon and nitrogen metabolism as well as the pathogenicity of Prototheca and non-photosynthetic organisms. The two high-quality P. zopfii genomes provide new insights into their evolution as obligate heterotrophs and pathogenicity. IMPORTANCE The genus Prototheca, characterized by its heterotrophic nature and pathogenicity, serves as an exemplary model for investigating pathobiology. The limited understanding of the protothecosis infectious disease is attributed to the lack of genomic resources. Using HiFi long-read sequencing, both nuclear and plastid genomes were generated for two strains of P. zopfii. The findings revealed a concurrent reduction in both plastid and nuclear genome size, accompanied by the loss of genes associated with photosynthesis, carotenoid oxygenase, basic leucine-zipper (bZIP) transcription factors, and others. The analysis of horizontal gene transfer revealed the presence of 1.37% and 1.49% bacterial genes, including malate synthase and isocitrate lyase, which play crucial roles in carbon and nitrogen metabolism, as well as pathogenicity and obligate heterotrophy. The two high-quality P. zopfii genomes represent valuable resources for investigating their adaptation and evolution as obligate heterotrophs, as well as for developing future prevention and treatment strategies against protothecosis.
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- Jianbo Jian
- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
- BGI Genomics, Shenzhen, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology, Shantou University, Shantou, China
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
- Department of Biosciences, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
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Cho A, Lax G, Keeling PJ. Phylogenomic analyses of ochrophytes (stramenopiles) with an emphasis on neglected lineages. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2024:108120. [PMID: 38852907 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2024] [Revised: 05/13/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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Ochrophyta is a photosynthetic lineage that crowns the phylogenetic tree of stramenopiles, one of the major eukaryotic supergroups. Due to their ecological impact as a major primary producer, ochrophytes are relatively well-studied compared to the rest of the stramenopiles, yet their evolutionary relationships remain poorly understood. This is in part due to a number of missing lineages in large-scale multigene analyses, and an apparently rapid radiation leading to many short internodes between ochrophyte subgroups in the tree. These short internodes are also found across deep-branching lineages of stramenopiles with limited phylogenetic signal, leaving many relationships controversial overall. We have addressed this issue with other deep-branching stramenopiles recently, and now examine whether contentious relationships within the ochrophytes may be resolved with the help of filling in missing lineages in an updated phylogenomic dataset of ochrophytes, along with exploring various gene filtering criteria to identify the most phylogenetically informative genes. We generated ten new transcriptomes from various culture collections and a single-cell isolation from an environmental sample, added these to an existing phylogenomic dataset, and examined the effects of selecting genes with high phylogenetic signal or low phylogenetic noise. For some previously contentious relationships, we find a variety of analyses and gene filtering criteria consistently unite previously unstable groupings with strong statistical support. For example, we recovered a robust grouping of Eustigmatophyceae with Raphidophyceae-Phaeophyceae-Xanthophyceae while Olisthodiscophyceae formed a sister-lineage to Pinguiophyceae. Selecting genes with high phylogenetic signal or data quality recovered more stable topologies. Overall, we find that adding under-represented groups across different lineages is still crucial in resolving phylogenetic relationships, and discrete gene properties affect lineages of stramenopiles differently. This is something which may be explored to further our understanding of the molecular evolution of stramenopiles.
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- Anna Cho
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, British Columbia, Canada
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Zagumyonnyi DG, Tikhonenkov DV. A new centrohelid heliozoan, Pterocystis polycristalepis sp. nov., and taxonomic and phylogenetic concerns within Pterista (Haptista: Centroplasthelida). Eur J Protistol 2024; 94:126064. [PMID: 38531148 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2024.126064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2023] [Revised: 02/13/2024] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
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A new species of centrohelid heliozoans, Pterocystis polycristalepis sp. nov. (Pterocystidae), was examined using light and electron microscopy. The novel centrohelid is characterized by the presence of leaf-like spine-scales with a broad pedicel-like structure on the proximal part and many subparallel ribs on the lateral wing surface. The plate-scales are ovoid with medial tubular thickening and many subparallel ribs on the very extensive marginal rim. The closely related species Pterocystis striata has also been studied in detail using light and electron microscopy. Phylogenetic analysis of 18S rRNA gene sequences placed both species into a separate clade within Pterista. The closest morphologically characterized species to the new clade is Triangulopteris lacunata. The 18S rRNA sequence of Pseudoraphidiophrys veliformis was grouped within Pterista and found to be closely related to Pterocystis polycristalepis, Pterocystis striata, and Triangulopteris lacunata. Cyst-scales of various shapes, cell and cyst aggregations, syncytia, and a cell with a stalk were revealed in a clonal culture of P. veliformis. Analysis of the morphology and phylogenetic position of the studied species and other centrohelids revealed a large number of taxonomic and phylogenetic problems in Pterista.
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- Dmitry G Zagumyonnyi
- Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, 152742 Borok, Russia.
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- Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, 152742 Borok, Russia
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Cho A, Tikhonenkov DV, Lax G, Prokina KI, Keeling PJ. Phylogenomic position of genetically diverse phagotrophic stramenopile flagellates in the sediment-associated MAST-6 lineage and a potentially halotolerant placididean. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2024; 190:107964. [PMID: 37951557 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2023] [Revised: 11/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023]
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Unlike morphologically conspicuous ochrophytes, many flagellates belonging to basally branching stramenopiles are small and often overlooked. As a result, many of these lineages are known only through molecular surveys and identified as MArine STramenopiles (MAST), and remain largely uncharacterized at the cellular or genomic level. These likely phagotrophic flagellates are not only phylogenetically diverse, but also extremely abundant in some environments, making their characterization all the more important. MAST-6 is one example of a phylogenetically distinct group that has been known to be associated with sediments, but little else is known about it. Indeed, until the present study, only a single species from this group, Pseudophyllomitus vesiculosus (Pseudophyllomitidae), has been both formally described and associated with genomic information. Here, we describe four new species including two new genera of sediment-dwelling MAST-6, Vomastramonas tehuelche gen. et sp. nov., Mastreximonas tlaamin gen. et sp. nov., one undescribed Pseudophyllomitus sp., BSC2, and a new species belonging to Placididea, the potentially halotolerant Haloplacidia sinai sp. nov. We also provide two additional bikosian transcriptomes from a public culture collection, to allow for better phylogenetic reconstructions of deep-branching stramenopiles. With the SSU rRNA sequences of the new MAST-6 species, we investigate the phylogenetic diversity of the MAST-6 group and show a high relative abundance of MAST-6 related to M. tlaamin in samples across various depths and geographical locations. Using the new MAST-6 species, we also update the phylogenomic tree of stramenopiles, particularly focusing on the paraphyly of Bigyra.
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- Anna Cho
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, British Columbia, Canada.
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- Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Science, Borok 152742, Russia
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, British Columbia, Canada
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- Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Science, Borok 152742, Russia; Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, British Columbia, Canada
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Füssy Z, Oborník M. Complex Endosymbioses I: From Primary to Complex Plastids, Serial Endosymbiotic Events. Methods Mol Biol 2024; 2776:21-41. [PMID: 38502496 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3726-5_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/21/2024]
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A considerable part of the diversity of eukaryotic phototrophs consists of algae with plastids that evolved from endosymbioses between two eukaryotes. These complex plastids are characterized by a high number of envelope membranes (more than two) and some of them contain a residual nucleus of the endosymbiotic alga called a nucleomorph. Complex plastid-bearing algae are thus chimeric cell assemblies, eukaryotic symbionts living in a eukaryotic host. In contrast, the primary plastids of the Archaeplastida (plants, green algae, red algae, and glaucophytes) possibly evolved from a single endosymbiosis with a cyanobacterium and are surrounded by two membranes. Complex plastids have been acquired several times by unrelated groups of eukaryotic heterotrophic hosts, suggesting that complex plastids are somewhat easier to obtain than primary plastids. Evidence suggests that complex plastids arose twice independently in the green lineage (euglenophytes and chlorarachniophytes) through secondary endosymbiosis, and four times in the red lineage, first through secondary endosymbiosis in cryptophytes, then by higher-order events in stramenopiles, alveolates, and haptophytes. Engulfment of primary and complex plastid-containing algae by eukaryotic hosts (secondary, tertiary, and higher-order endosymbioses) is also responsible for numerous plastid replacements in dinoflagellates. Plastid endosymbiosis is accompanied by massive gene transfer from the endosymbiont to the host nucleus and cell adaptation of both endosymbiotic partners, which is related to the trophic switch to phototrophy and loss of autonomy of the endosymbiont. Such a process is essential for the metabolic integration and division control of the endosymbiont in the host. Although photosynthesis is the main advantage of acquiring plastids, loss of photosynthesis often occurs in algae with complex plastids. This chapter summarizes the essential knowledge of the acquisition, evolution, and function of complex plastids.
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- Zoltán Füssy
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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Holt CC, Hehenberger E, Tikhonenkov DV, Jacko-Reynolds VKL, Okamoto N, Cooney EC, Irwin NAT, Keeling PJ. Multiple parallel origins of parasitic Marine Alveolates. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7049. [PMID: 37923716 PMCID: PMC10624901 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42807-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 11/06/2023] Open
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Microbial eukaryotes are important components of marine ecosystems, and the Marine Alveolates (MALVs) are consistently both abundant and diverse in global environmental sequencing surveys. MALVs are dinoflagellates that are thought to be parasites of other protists and animals, but the lack of data beyond ribosomal RNA gene sequences from all but a few described species means much of their biology and evolution remain unknown. Using single-cell transcriptomes from several MALVs and their free-living relatives, we show that MALVs evolved independently from two distinct, free-living ancestors and that their parasitism evolved in parallel. Phylogenomics shows one subgroup (MALV-II and -IV, or Syndiniales) is related to a novel lineage of free-living, eukaryovorous predators, the eleftherids, while the other (MALV-I, or Ichthyodinida) is related to the free-living predator Oxyrrhis and retains proteins targeted to a non-photosynthetic plastid. Reconstructing the evolution of photosynthesis, plastids, and parasitism in early-diverging dinoflagellates shows a number of parallels with the evolution of their apicomplexan sisters. In both groups, similar forms of parasitism evolved multiple times and photosynthesis was lost many times. By contrast, complete loss of the plastid organelle is infrequent and, when this does happen, leaves no residual genes.
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- Corey C Holt
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Hakai Institute, Heriot Bay, British Columbia, Canada.
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia
- AquaBioSafe Laboratory, University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russia
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Hakai Institute, Heriot Bay, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Hakai Institute, Heriot Bay, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Merton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Gerasimova EA, Mindolina YV, Tikhonenkov DV, Kataev VY, Balkin AS, Mikhailov KV, Zagumyonnyi DG, Plotnikov AO, Zlatogursky VV. Unexpected ubiquity of heart-shaped scale morphotype in Centroplasthelida (Haptista): Ancestral trait or multiple acquisitions? J Eukaryot Microbiol 2023; 70:e12992. [PMID: 37452443 DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Revised: 06/20/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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Centrohelids (Haptista: Centroplasthelida) are axopodial protists with a remarkable diversity of external siliceous scale morphologies. It is believed that the last common ancestor of centrohelids had a double layer of siliceous scales composed of plate scales closer to a cell surface and spine scales radiating outwards. The characteristic morphotype of spine scales with a heart-shaped base was once believed to be a unique feature of the genus Choanocystis, as it was defined by Siemensma and Roijackers (1988). Further research revealed that this morphology is present in different and sometimes distantly related lineages: Ozanamiidae, Meringosphaeridae, and Marophryidae. Here, we report the fourth clade, Pterocystidae, which is also revealed to contain representatives having this phenotype. Cernunnos gen. nov. is erected here to place Cernunnos uralica sp. nov., Cernunnos arctica sp. nov., Cernunnos america sp. nov., and Cernunnos antarctica Tikhonenkov et Mylnikov, 2010, Gerasimova comb. nov. C. uralica was studied with scanning electron microscopy and SSU rDNA sequencing. Molecular phylogenetic analysis placed it into marine environmental clade P within Pterocystida. The ubiquity of spine scales with heart-shaped bases could be an example of parallel evolution, but taking into account the considerable similarity it is likely an ancestral trait, acquired from the last common ancestor of centrohelids.
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- Institute for Cellular and Intracellular Symbiosis of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Orenburg, Russia
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- AquaBioSafe Laboratory, University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russia
- Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia
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- Institute for Cellular and Intracellular Symbiosis of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Orenburg, Russia
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- Institute for Cellular and Intracellular Symbiosis of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Orenburg, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute for Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- AquaBioSafe Laboratory, University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russia
- Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia
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- Institute for Cellular and Intracellular Symbiosis of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Orenburg, Russia
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Gomes KM, Nunn BL, Chappell PD, Jenkins BD. Subcellular proteomics for determining iron-limited remodeling of plastids in the model diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana (Bacillariophyta). JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2023; 59:1085-1099. [PMID: 37615442 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2023] [Revised: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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Diatoms are important primary producers in the world's oceans, yet their growth is constrained in large regions by low bioavailable iron (Fe). Low-Fe stress-induced limitation of primary production is due to requirements for Fe in components of essential metabolic pathways including photosynthesis and other chloroplast plastid functions. Studies have shown that under low-Fe stress, diatoms alter plastid-specific processes, including components of electron transport. These physiological changes suggest changes of protein content and in protein abundances within the diatom plastid. While in silico predictions provide putative information on plastid-localized proteins, knowledge of diatom plastid proteins remains limited in comparison to well-studied model photosynthetic organisms. To address this, we employed shotgun proteomics to investigate the proteome of subcellular plastid-enriched fractions from Thalassiosira pseudonana to gain a better understanding of how the plastid proteome is remodeled in response to Fe limitation. Using mass spectrometry-based peptide identification and quantification, we analyzed T. pseudonana grown under Fe-replete and -limiting conditions. Through these analyses, we inferred the relative quantities of each protein, revealing that Fe limitation regulates major metabolic pathways in the plastid, including the Calvin cycle. Additionally, we observed changes in the expression of light-harvesting proteins. In silico localization predictions of proteins identified in this plastid-enriched proteome allowed for an in-depth comparison of theoretical versus observed plastid-localization, providing evidence for the potential of additional protein import pathways into the diatom plastid.
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- Kristofer M Gomes
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Kingston, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Washington, Seattle, USA
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- College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Florida, St. Petersburg, USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Kingston, USA
- Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Narragansett, USA
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Park E, Cooney E, Heng Phua Y, Horiguchi T, Husnik F, Keeling P, Wakeman K, Leander B. Phylogenomics shows that novel tapeworm-like traits of haplozoan parasites evolved from within the Peridiniales (Dinoflagellata). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2023:107859. [PMID: 37329929 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Revised: 06/08/2023] [Accepted: 06/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Haplozoans are intestinal parasites of marine annelids with bizarre traits, including a differentiated and dynamic trophozoite stage that resembles the scolex and strobila of tapeworms. Described originally as "Mesozoa", comparative ultrastructural data and molecular phylogenetic analyses have shown that haplozoans are aberrant dinoflagellates; however, these data failed to resolve the phylogenetic position of haplozoans within this diverse group of protists. Several hypotheses for the phylogenetic position of haplozoans have been proposed: (1) within the Gymnodiniales based on tabulation patterns on the trophozoites, (2) within the Blastodiniales based on the parasitic life cycle, and (3) part of a new lineage of dinoflagellates that reflects the highly modified morphology. Here, we demonstrate the phylogenetic position of haplozoans by using three single-trophozoite transcriptomes representing two species: Haplozoon axiothellae and two isolates of H. pugnus collected from the Northwestern and Northeastern Pacific Ocean. Unexpectedly, our phylogenomic analysis of 241 genes showed that these parasites are unambiguously nested within the Peridiniales, a clade of single-celled flagellates that is well represented in marine phytoplankton communities around the world. Although the intestinal trophozoites of Haplozoon species do not show any peridinioid characteristics, we suspect that uncharacterized life cycle stages may reflect their evolutionary history within the Peridiniales.
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- Eunji Park
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Hakai Institute, British Columbia, Canada.
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Hakai Institute, British Columbia, Canada
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- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan
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- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Žárský V, Karnkowska A, Boscaro V, Trznadel M, Whelan TA, Hiltunen-Thorén M, Onut-Brännström I, Abbott CL, Fast NM, Burki F, Keeling PJ. Contrasting outcomes of genome reduction in mikrocytids and microsporidians. BMC Biol 2023; 21:137. [PMID: 37280585 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01635-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Intracellular symbionts often undergo genome reduction, losing both coding and non-coding DNA in a process that ultimately produces small, gene-dense genomes with few genes. Among eukaryotes, an extreme example is found in microsporidians, which are anaerobic, obligate intracellular parasites related to fungi that have the smallest nuclear genomes known (except for the relic nucleomorphs of some secondary plastids). Mikrocytids are superficially similar to microsporidians: they are also small, reduced, obligate parasites; however, as they belong to a very different branch of the tree of eukaryotes, the rhizarians, such similarities must have evolved in parallel. Since little genomic data are available from mikrocytids, we assembled a draft genome of the type species, Mikrocytos mackini, and compared the genomic architecture and content of microsporidians and mikrocytids to identify common characteristics of reduction and possible convergent evolution. RESULTS At the coarsest level, the genome of M. mackini does not exhibit signs of extreme genome reduction; at 49.7 Mbp with 14,372 genes, the assembly is much larger and gene-rich than those of microsporidians. However, much of the genomic sequence and most (8075) of the protein-coding genes code for transposons, and may not contribute much of functional relevance to the parasite. Indeed, the energy and carbon metabolism of M. mackini share several similarities with those of microsporidians. Overall, the predicted proteome involved in cellular functions is quite reduced and gene sequences are extremely divergent. Microsporidians and mikrocytids also share highly reduced spliceosomes that have retained a strikingly similar subset of proteins despite having reduced independently. In contrast, the spliceosomal introns in mikrocytids are very different from those of microsporidians in that they are numerous, conserved in sequence, and constrained to an exceptionally narrow size range (all 16 or 17 nucleotides long) at the shortest extreme of known intron lengths. CONCLUSIONS Nuclear genome reduction has taken place many times and has proceeded along different routes in different lineages. Mikrocytids show a mix of similarities and differences with other extreme cases, including uncoupling the actual size of a genome with its functional reduction.
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- Vojtečh Žárský
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, BC, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, BC, Canada
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-089, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, BC, Canada.
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, BC, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, BC, Canada
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyv. 18D, 752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyv. 18D, 752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, 752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, 0562, Oslo, Norway
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- Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, BC, V9T 6N7, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, BC, Canada
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyv. 18D, 752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, BC, Canada.
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Gunathilaka MDTL. Utilization of Marine Seaweeds as a Promising Defense Against COVID-19: a Mini-review. MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2023:10.1007/s10126-023-10214-7. [PMID: 37243809 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-023-10214-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which mainly affects the respiratory system. It has been declared as a "pandemic" in March 2020 by the World Health Organization due to the high spreading rate. SARS-CoV-2 binds with the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors on the cell surface which leads to the downregulation of ACE2 and upregulation of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) receptors. The elevated level of cytokines and ACE receptors leads to the severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Due to the limited availability of vaccines and recurrent attacks of COVID-19 mainly in low-income countries, it is important to search for natural remedies to prevent or treat COVID-19 infection. Marine seaweeds are a rich source of bioactive compounds such as phlorotannins; fucoidan; carotenoids; omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids; vitamins B12, D, and C; and minerals including zinc and selenium that exhibit antioxidant, antiviral, and anti-inflammatory activities. Furthermore, bioactive compounds present in marine seaweeds have the ability to inhibit ACEs by inducing ACE2 which exhibits anti-inflammatory effects in COVID-19. Correspondingly, soluble dietary fibers present in seaweeds are served as prebiotics by generating short-chain fatty acids through fermentation. Hence, seaweeds can be utilized to reduce the gastrointestinal infections associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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- M D T L Gunathilaka
- Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health Science, NSBM Green University, Mahenwatta, Pitipana, Homagama, Sri Lanka.
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Agostini A, Bína D, Carbonera D, Litvín R. Conservation of triplet-triplet energy transfer photoprotective pathways in fucoxanthin chlorophyll-binding proteins across algal lineages. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. BIOENERGETICS 2023; 1864:148935. [PMID: 36379269 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2022.148935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2022] [Revised: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Detailed information on the photo-generated triplet states of diatom and haptophyte Fucoxanthin Chlorophyll-binding Proteins (FCPs and E-FCPs, respectively) have been obtained from a combined spectroscopic investigation involving Transient Absorption and Time-Resolved Electron Paramagnetic Resonance. Pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum FCP shows identical photoprotective Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer (TTET) pathways to the previously investigated centric diatom Cyclotella meneghiniana FCP, with the same two chlorophyll a-fucoxanthin pairs that involve the fucoxanthins in sites Fx301 and Fx302 contributing to TTET in both diatom groups. In the case of the haptophyte Emilianina huxleyi E-FCP, only one of the two chlorophyll a-fucoxanthins pairs observed in diatoms, the one involving chlorophyll a409 and Fx301, has been shown to be active in TTET. Furthermore, despite the marked change in the pigment content of E-FCP with growth light intensity, the TTET pathway is not affected. Thus, our comparative investigation of FCPs revealed a photoprotective TTET pathway shared within these classes involving the fucoxanthin in site Fx301, a site exposed to the exterior of the antenna monomer that has no equivalent in Light-Harvesting Complexes from the green lineage.
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- Alessandro Agostini
- Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Branišovská 1160/31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Branišovská 1160/31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 1760, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Branišovská 1160/31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 1760, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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Van Etten J, Benites LF, Stephens TG, Yoon HS, Bhattacharya D. Algae obscura: The potential of rare species as model systems. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2023; 59:293-300. [PMID: 36764681 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Model organism research has provided invaluable knowledge about foundational biological principles. However, most of these studies have focused on species that are in high abundance, easy to cultivate in the lab, and represent only a small fraction of extant biodiversity. Here, we present three examples of rare algae with unusual features that we refer to as "algae obscura." The Cyanidiophyceae (Rhodophyta), Glaucophyta, and Paulinella (rhizarian) lineages have all transitioned out of obscurity to become models for fundamental evolutionary research. Insights have been gained into the prevalence and importance of eukaryotic horizontal gene transfer, early Earth microbial community dynamics, primary plastid endosymbiosis, and the origin of Archaeplastida. By reviewing the research that has come from the exploration of these organisms, we demonstrate that underappreciated algae have the potential to help us formulate, refine, and substantiate core hypotheses and that such organisms should be considered when establishing future model systems.
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- Julia Van Etten
- Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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Nicholls KH. Marine and freshwater centrohelid heliozoans (Haptista: Centroplasthelida) in Canada, including taxonomic revisions and descriptions of 22 new species and subspecies. CAN J ZOOL 2023. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2022-0114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
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Canadian coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean as well as inland freshwater habitats in Ontario were sampled for centrohelid heliozoans (free-living heterotrophic single-celled organisms) over a period of nearly five decades. More than 60 species and subspecies were revealed, including 1 Triangulopteris, 1 Raphidocystis, 2 Pseudoraphidocystis, 3 Raineriophrys, 4 Pseudoraphidiophrys, 12 Choanocystis, 15 Pterocystis, and 25 Acanthocystis taxa. Of these, 22 were officially named and described as new to science based primarily on the morphology of the siliceous scales that cover the cell. New species were compared with images and/or descriptions of close “relatives” to validate their new species assignments. New data on five species of Acanthocystis and one species of Choanocystis required revisions of their descriptive taxonomy that in some cases resulted in the splitting off of separate species or subspecies. Very little can be concluded about global distribution of centrohelid heliozoans, owing to the paucity of records. For many of the taxa reported here, previous records consist of just one or two findings from other parts of the world. One example is Choanocystis antarctica Tikhonenkov and Mylnikov, 2011 that was previously known only from Antarctic seawater, but is reported here from an Ontario softwater lake.
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Dorrell RG, Kuo A, Füssy Z, Richardson EH, Salamov A, Zarevski N, Freyria NJ, Ibarbalz FM, Jenkins J, Pierella Karlusich JJ, Stecca Steindorff A, Edgar RE, Handley L, Lail K, Lipzen A, Lombard V, McFarlane J, Nef C, Novák Vanclová AM, Peng Y, Plott C, Potvin M, Vieira FRJ, Barry K, de Vargas C, Henrissat B, Pelletier E, Schmutz J, Wincker P, Dacks JB, Bowler C, Grigoriev IV, Lovejoy C. Convergent evolution and horizontal gene transfer in Arctic Ocean microalgae. Life Sci Alliance 2023; 6:6/3/e202201833. [PMID: 36522135 PMCID: PMC9756366 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202201833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Revised: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 12/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Microbial communities in the world ocean are affected strongly by oceanic circulation, creating characteristic marine biomes. The high connectivity of most of the ocean makes it difficult to disentangle selective retention of colonizing genotypes (with traits suited to biome specific conditions) from evolutionary selection, which would act on founder genotypes over time. The Arctic Ocean is exceptional with limited exchange with other oceans and ice covered since the last ice age. To test whether Arctic microalgal lineages evolved apart from algae in the global ocean, we sequenced four lineages of microalgae isolated from Arctic waters and sea ice. Here we show convergent evolution and highlight geographically limited HGT as an ecological adaptive force in the form of PFAM complements and horizontal acquisition of key adaptive genes. Notably, ice-binding proteins were acquired and horizontally transferred among Arctic strains. A comparison with Tara Oceans metagenomes and metatranscriptomes confirmed mostly Arctic distributions of these IBPs. The phylogeny of Arctic-specific genes indicated that these events were independent of bacterial-sourced HGTs in Antarctic Southern Ocean microalgae.
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- Richard G Dorrell
- Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France.,CNRS Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, Paris, France
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Parasitology, BIOCEV, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta and Department of Biological Sciences, and University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France.,CNRS Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, Paris, France
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- Département de Biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France.,CNRS Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, Paris, France
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.,HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France.,CNRS Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, Paris, France
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Département de Biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta and Department of Biological Sciences, and University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France.,CNRS Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, Paris, France
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- Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France.,CNRS Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, Paris, France
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- Département de Biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France.,CNRS Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, Paris, France
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- CNRS Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Station Biologique de Roscoff, AD2M, UMR 7144, Roscoff, France
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- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.,Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- CNRS Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, Paris, France.,Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, CNRS, Université Évry, Université Paris-Saclay, Évry, France
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.,HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- CNRS Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, Paris, France.,Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, CNRS, Université Évry, Université Paris-Saclay, Évry, France
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta and Department of Biological Sciences, and University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, Département de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France.,CNRS Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, Paris, France
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Département de Biologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Systèmes, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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Torruella G, Galindo LJ, Moreira D, Ciobanu M, Heiss AA, Yubuki N, Kim E, López-García P. Expanding the molecular and morphological diversity of Apusomonadida, a deep-branching group of gliding bacterivorous protists. J Eukaryot Microbiol 2023; 70:e12956. [PMID: 36453005 DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2022] [Revised: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Apusomonads are cosmopolitan bacterivorous biflagellate protists usually gliding on freshwater and marine sediment or wet soils. These nanoflagellates form a sister lineage to opisthokonts and may have retained ancestral features helpful to understanding the early evolution of this large supergroup. Although molecular environmental analyses indicate that apusomonads are genetically diverse, few species have been described. Here, we morphologically characterize 11 new apusomonad strains. Based on molecular phylogenetic analyses of the rRNA gene operon, we describe four new strains of the known species Multimonas media, Podomonas capensis, Apusomonas proboscidea, and Apusomonas australiensis, and rename Thecamonas oxoniensis as Mylnikovia oxoniensis n. gen., n. comb. Additionally, we describe four new genera and six new species: Catacumbia lutetiensis n. gen. n. sp., Cavaliersmithia chaoae n. gen. n. sp., Singekia montserratensis n. gen. n. sp., Singekia franciliensis n. gen. n. sp., Karpovia croatica n. gen. n. sp., and Chelonemonas dolani n. sp. Our comparative analysis suggests that apusomonad ancestor was a fusiform biflagellate with a dorsal pellicle, a plastic ventral surface, and a sleeve covering the anterior flagellum, that thrived in marine, possibly oxygen-poor, environments. It likely had a complex cell cycle with dormant and multiple fission stages, and sex. Our results extend known apusomonad diversity, allow updating their taxonomy, and provide elements to understand early eukaryotic evolution.
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- Guifré Torruella
- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, Orsay, France.,Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), Barcelona, Spain.,Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, Orsay, France.,Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, Orsay, France
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, Orsay, France
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, USA.,Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, BIOCEV, Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, Orsay, France.,Bioimaging Facility, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, USA.,Department of Life Science & Division of EcoScience, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
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Mock T. Algal model species for advancing biological sciences. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2023; 59:1-3. [PMID: 36779558 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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- Thomas Mock
- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK
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Shɨshkin-Skarð Y, Drachko D, Zlatogursky VV. Shedding light on the origin of Acanthocystidae: Ricksol blepharistes gen. n., sp. n. (Ricksolidae fam. n., Panacanthocystida, Centroplasthelida), with notes on the evolution of the genera Acanthocystis, Ozanamia gen. n. (Ozanamiidae fam. n.), and “Heterophrys-like organisms”. ORG DIVERS EVOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s13127-022-00595-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Zhang S, Yazaki E, Sakamoto H, Yamamoto H, Mizushima N. Evolutionary diversification of the autophagy-related ubiquitin-like conjugation systems. Autophagy 2022; 18:2969-2984. [PMID: 35427200 PMCID: PMC9673942 DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2022.2059168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Two autophagy-related (ATG) ubiquitin-like conjugation systems, the ATG12 and ATG8 systems, play important roles in macroautophagy. While multiple duplications and losses of the ATG conjugation system proteins are found in different lineages, the extent to which the underlying systems diversified across eukaryotes is not fully understood. Here, in order to understand the evolution of the ATG conjugation systems, we constructed a transcriptome database consisting of 94 eukaryotic species covering major eukaryotic clades and systematically identified ATG conjugation system components. Both ATG10 and the C-terminal glycine of ATG12 are essential for the canonical ubiquitin-like conjugation of ATG12 and ATG5. However, loss of ATG10 or the C-terminal glycine of ATG12 occurred at least 16 times in a wide range of lineages, suggesting that possible covalent-to-non-covalent transition is not limited to the species that we previously reported such as Alveolata and some yeast species. Some species have only the ATG8 system (with conjugation enzymes) or only ATG8 (without conjugation enzymes). More than 10 species have ATG8 homologs without the conserved C-terminal glycine, and Tetrahymena has an ATG8 homolog with a predicted transmembrane domain, which may be able to anchor to the membrane independent of the ATG conjugation systems. We discuss the possibility that the ancestor of the ATG12 and ATG8 systems is more similar to ATG8. Overall, our study offers a whole picture of the evolution and diversity of the ATG conjugation systems among eukaryotes, and provides evidence that functional diversifications of the systems are more common than previously thought.Abbreviations: APEAR: ATG8-PE association region; ATG: autophagy-related; LIR: LC3-interacting region; NEDD8: neural precursor cell expressed, developmentally down-regulated gene 8; PE: phosphatidylethanolamine; SAMP: small archaeal modifier protein; SAR: Stramenopiles, Alveolata, and Rhizaria; SMC: structural maintenance of chromosomes; SUMO: small ubiquitin like modifier; TACK: Thaumarchaeota, Aigarchaeota, Crenarchaeota, and Korarchaeota; UBA: ubiquitin like modifier activating enzyme; UFM: ubiquitin fold modifier; URM: ubiquitin related modifier.
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- Sidi Zhang
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan,Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS), RIKEN, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan,Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan,Department of Infection and Host Defense, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan,CONTACT Noboru Mizushima Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo113-0033, Japan
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Gololobova MA, Belyakova GA. Position of Algae on the Tree of Life. DOKLADY BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES : PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE USSR, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES SECTIONS 2022; 507:312-326. [PMID: 36781528 DOI: 10.1134/s0012496622060035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Revised: 07/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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Issues related to evolution of algal chloroplasts are considered. The position of algae on the Tree of Life is discussed. Algae are now included in five of the monophyletic eukaryotic supergroups: Archaeplastida (Glaucocystophyta, Rhodophyta, Prasinodermophyta, Chlorophyta, and Charophyta), TSAR (Ochrophyta; Dinophyta; Chlorarachniophyta; and photosynthetic species of the genera Chromera, Vetrella, and Paulinella), Haptista (Prymnesiophyta and Rappemonads), Cryptista (Cryptophyta), and Discoba (Euglenophyta). The algal divisions and the respective supergroups are characterized in brief.
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- M A Gololobova
- Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
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- Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Divergent genomic trajectories predate the origin of animals and fungi. Nature 2022; 609:747-753. [PMID: 36002568 PMCID: PMC9492541 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05110-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Animals and fungi have radically distinct morphologies, yet both evolved within the same eukaryotic supergroup: Opisthokonta1,2. Here we reconstructed the trajectory of genetic changes that accompanied the origin of Metazoa and Fungi since the divergence of Opisthokonta with a dataset that includes four novel genomes from crucial positions in the Opisthokonta phylogeny. We show that animals arose only after the accumulation of genes functionally important for their multicellularity, a tendency that began in the pre-metazoan ancestors and later accelerated in the metazoan root. By contrast, the pre-fungal ancestors experienced net losses of most functional categories, including those gained in the path to Metazoa. On a broad-scale functional level, fungal genomes contain a higher proportion of metabolic genes and diverged less from the last common ancestor of Opisthokonta than did the gene repertoires of Metazoa. Metazoa and Fungi also show differences regarding gene gain mechanisms. Gene fusions are more prevalent in Metazoa, whereas a larger fraction of gene gains were detected as horizontal gene transfers in Fungi and protists, in agreement with the long-standing idea that transfers would be less relevant in Metazoa due to germline isolation3-5. Together, our results indicate that animals and fungi evolved under two contrasting trajectories of genetic change that predated the origin of both groups. The gradual establishment of two clearly differentiated genomic contexts thus set the stage for the emergence of Metazoa and Fungi.
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Centrohelid heliozoans of Ukraine with a description of a new genus and species (Haptista: Centroplasthelida). Eur J Protistol 2022; 86:125916. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2022.125916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Drachko D, Shɨshkin Y, Zlatogursky VV. On the phylogenetic position of Raphidocystis pallida with some notes on its life cycle. J Eukaryot Microbiol 2022; 69:e12916. [PMID: 35416375 DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Raphidocystis pallida, a centrohelid heliozoan with unusually shaped tubular siliceous scales, was reisolated from Jamor river, Portugal, and studied with the use of light and electron microscopy. In enriched cultures, the cells were naked, devoid of siliceous external skeleton with the exception of several scales present in one cell. Instead, such cells were covered with a layer of rod-shaped bacteria. In clonal cultures, the cells gradually acquired siliceous coverings typical for this species and retained them in next generations. Phylogenetic position of R. pallida was clarified with SSU rDNA-based molecular phylogenetics, and its placement within the genus Raphidocystis despite unusual coverings structure was confirmed. The implications of phylogenetic placement of R. pallida and possible origins of the previously undescribed naked form were discussed.
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- Daria Drachko
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Protistology, Zoological Institute RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Gabaldón T, Völcker E, Torruella G. On the Biology, Diversity and Evolution of Nucleariid Amoebae (Amorphea, Obazoa, Opisthokonta. Protist 2022; 173:125895. [DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2022.125895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Revised: 06/10/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Yazaki E, Yabuki A, Imaizumi A, Kume K, Hashimoto T, Inagaki Y. The closest lineage of Archaeplastida is revealed by phylogenomics analyses that include Microheliella maris. Open Biol 2022; 12:210376. [PMID: 35414259 PMCID: PMC9006020 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.210376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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By clarifying the phylogenetic positions of 'orphan' protists (unicellular micro-eukaryotes with no affinity to extant lineages), we may uncover the novel affiliation between two (or more) major lineages in eukaryotes. Microheliella maris was an orphan protist, which failed to be placed within the previously described lineages by pioneering phylogenetic analyses. In this study, we analysed a 319-gene alignment and demonstrated that M. maris represents a basal lineage of one of the major eukaryotic lineages, Cryptista. We here propose a new clade name 'Pancryptista' for Cryptista plus M. maris. The 319-gene analyses also indicated that M. maris is a key taxon to recover the monophyly of Archaeplastida and the sister relationship between Archaeplastida and Pancryptista, which is collectively called 'CAM clade' here. Significantly, Cryptophyceae tend to be attracted to Rhodophyta depending on the taxon sampling (ex., in the absence of M. maris and Rhodelphidia) and the particular phylogenetic 'signal' most likely hindered the stable recovery of the monophyly of Archaeplastida in previous studies.
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- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 237-0061, Japan
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- College of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan,Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan,Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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Azuma T, Pánek T, Tice AK, Kayama M, Kobayashi M, Miyashita H, Suzaki T, Yabuki A, Brown MW, Kamikawa R. An enigmatic stramenopile sheds light on early evolution in Ochrophyta plastid organellogenesis. Mol Biol Evol 2022; 39:6555011. [PMID: 35348760 PMCID: PMC9004409 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Ochrophyta is an algal group belonging to the Stramenopiles and comprises diverse lineages of algae which contribute significantly to the oceanic ecosystems as primary producers. However, early evolution of the plastid organelle in Ochrophyta is not fully understood. In this study, we provide a well-supported tree of the Stramenopiles inferred by the large-scale phylogenomic analysis that unveils the eukaryvorous (nonphotosynthetic) protist Actinophrys sol (Actinophryidae) is closely related to Ochrophyta. We used genomic and transcriptomic data generated from A. sol to detect molecular traits of its plastid and we found no evidence of plastid genome and plastid-mediated biosynthesis, consistent with previous ultrastructural studies that did not identify any plastids in Actinophryidae. Moreover, our phylogenetic analyses of particular biosynthetic pathways provide no evidence of a current and past plastid in A. sol. However, we found more than a dozen organellar aminoacyl-tRNA synthases (aaRSs) that are of algal origin. Close relationships between aaRS from A. sol and their ochrophyte homologs document gene transfer of algal genes that happened before the divergence of Actinophryidae and Ochrophyta lineages. We further showed experimentally that organellar aaRSs of A. sol are targeted exclusively to mitochondria, although organellar aaRSs in Ochrophyta are dually targeted to mitochondria and plastids. Together, our findings suggested that the last common ancestor of Actinophryidae and Ochrophyta had not yet completed the establishment of host–plastid partnership as seen in the current Ochrophyta species, but acquired at least certain nuclear-encoded genes for the plastid functions.
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- Tomonori Azuma
- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida nihonmatsu cho, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.,Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA
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- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida nihonmatsu cho, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida nihonmatsu cho, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
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- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa oiwake cho, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
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Morphology and spicules elemental composition of Marophrys nikolaevi spec. nov. (Haptista: Centroplasthelida). Eur J Protistol 2022; 84:125888. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2022.125888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Revised: 03/08/2022] [Accepted: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cho A, Tikhonenkov DV, Hehenberger E, Karnkowska A, Mylnikov AP, Keeling PJ. Monophyly of Diverse Bigyromonadea and their Impact on Phylogenomic Relationships Within Stramenopiles. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2022; 171:107468. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2021] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Coelho JC, Calhoun ED, Calhoun GN, Poole AZ. Patchy Distribution of GTPases of Immunity Associated Proteins (GIMAP) within Cnidarians and Dinoflagellates Suggests a Complex Evolutionary History. Genome Biol Evol 2022; 14:6500283. [PMID: 35015849 PMCID: PMC8857920 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evac002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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GTPases of Immunity-Associated Proteins (GIMAP) are a group of small GTP-binding proteins found in a variety of organisms, including vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants. These proteins are characterized by the highly conserved AIG1 domain, and in vertebrates, have been implicated in regulation of the immune system as well as apoptosis and autophagy, though their exact mechanism of action remains unclear. Recent work on cnidarian GIMAPs suggests a conserved role in immunity, apoptosis, and autophagy—three processes involved in coral bleaching, or the breakdown of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis. Therefore, to further understand the evolution of GIMAPs in this group of organisms, the purpose of this study was to characterize GIMAP or GIMAP-like sequences utilizing publicly available genomic and transcriptomic data in species across the cnidarian phylogeny. The results revealed a patchy distribution of GIMAPs in cnidarians, with three distinct types referred to as L-GIMAP, S-GIMAP, and GIMAP-like. Additionally, GIMAPs were present in most dinoflagellate species and formed seven well-supported clades. Overall, these results elucidate the distribution of GIMAPs within two distantly related eukaryotic groups and represent the first in-depth investigation on the evolution of these proteins within both protists and basal metazoans.
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- Jenny C Coelho
- Department of Biology, Berry College, 2277 Martha Berry Highway NW, Mt. Berry GA, 30149, USA.,Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 120 South Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Biology, Berry College, 2277 Martha Berry Highway NW, Mt. Berry GA, 30149, USA
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- Department of Biology, Berry College, 2277 Martha Berry Highway NW, Mt. Berry GA, 30149, USA
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- Department of Biology, Berry College, 2277 Martha Berry Highway NW, Mt. Berry GA, 30149, USA
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Kumazawa M, Nishide H, Nagao R, Inoue-Kashino N, Shen JR, Nakano T, Uchiyama I, Kashino Y, Ifuku K. Molecular phylogeny of fucoxanthin-chlorophyll a/c proteins from Chaetoceros gracilis and Lhcq/Lhcf diversity. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2022; 174:e13598. [PMID: 34792189 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2021] [Revised: 11/06/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Diatoms adapt to various aquatic light environments and play major roles in the global carbon cycle using their unique light-harvesting system, i.e. fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c binding proteins (FCPs). Structural analyses of photosystem II (PSII)-FCPII and photosystem I (PSI)-FCPI complexes from the diatom Chaetoceros gracilis have revealed the localization and interactions of many FCPs; however, the entire set of FCPs has not been characterized. Here, we identify 46 FCPs in the newly assembled genome and transcriptome of C. gracilis. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that these FCPs can be classified into five subfamilies: Lhcr, Lhcf, Lhcx, Lhcz, and the novel Lhcq, in addition to a distinct type of Lhcr, CgLhcr9. The FCPs in Lhcr, including CgLhcr9 and some Lhcqs, have orthologous proteins in other diatoms, particularly those found in the PSI-FCPI structure. By contrast, the Lhcf subfamily, some of which were found in the PSII-FCPII complex, seems to be diversified in each diatom species, and the number of Lhcqs differs among species, indicating that their diversification may contribute to species-specific adaptations to light. Further phylogenetic analyses of FCPs/light-harvesting complex (LHC) proteins using genome data and assembled transcriptomes of other diatoms and microalgae in public databases suggest that our proposed classification of FCPs is common among various red-lineage algae derived from secondary endosymbiosis of red algae, including Haptophyta. These results provide insights into the loss and gain of FCP/LHC subfamilies during the evolutionary history of the red algal lineage.
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- Minoru Kumazawa
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Aichi, Japan
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- Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Aichi, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Triangulopteris lacunata gen. et sp. nov. (Centroplasthelida), a New Centrohelid Heliozoan from Soil. DIVERSITY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/d13120658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A new genus and species of centrohelid heliozoans, Triangulopteris lacunata gen. et sp. nov. (Pterocystidae Cavalier-Smith and Heyden, 2007), from four geographically remote locations (the Crimean Peninsula, the Dnieper Lowland (the East European Plain), Franz Josef Land, and the Kolyma Lowland (North–Eastern Siberia) was examined using light and electron microscopy. The novel centrohelid is characterized by round shape, 4.3–16.3 μm in diameter, covered with two types of scales: 1.06–4.54 μm long triangular spine scales and 1.22–2.05 μm oval plate scales. Studied centrohelid heliozoan possesses a unique spine scale morphology. The base of scales is represented by a horse hoof-shaped basal plate. The inner surface and lateral wings of spine scales have numerous radial ribs with two ‘pockets’ that are located on both sides of the spine shaft. These pockets are formed by the lateral wings and ends of the basal plate. The cyst formation and transition to a spicules-bearing stage were noted. Additionally, phylogenetic tree was constructed based on SSU rRNA sequences including the strain HF-25 from the permafrost of Kolyma Lowland. The resulting phylogeny recovered it within the clade Pterista, while forming a separate sister lineage to H2 clade, which only had included freshwater environmental sequences.
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Single cell genomics reveals plastid-lacking Picozoa are close relatives of red algae. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6651. [PMID: 34789758 PMCID: PMC8599508 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26918-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The endosymbiotic origin of plastids from cyanobacteria gave eukaryotes photosynthetic capabilities and launched the diversification of countless forms of algae. These primary plastids are found in members of the eukaryotic supergroup Archaeplastida. All known archaeplastids still retain some form of primary plastids, which are widely assumed to have a single origin. Here, we use single-cell genomics from natural samples combined with phylogenomics to infer the evolutionary origin of the phylum Picozoa, a globally distributed but seemingly rare group of marine microbial heterotrophic eukaryotes. Strikingly, the analysis of 43 single-cell genomes shows that Picozoa belong to Archaeplastida, specifically related to red algae and the phagotrophic rhodelphids. These picozoan genomes support the hypothesis that Picozoa lack a plastid, and further reveal no evidence of an early cryptic endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. These findings change our understanding of plastid evolution as they either represent the first complete plastid loss in a free-living taxon, or indicate that red algae and rhodelphids obtained their plastids independently of other archaeplastids.
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Sun TW, Ku C. Unraveling gene content variation across eukaryotic giant viruses based on network analyses and host associations. Virus Evol 2021; 7:veab081. [PMID: 34754514 PMCID: PMC8570155 DOI: 10.1093/ve/veab081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Revised: 08/31/2021] [Accepted: 09/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs, phylum Nucleocytoviricota) infect vertebrates, invertebrates, algae, amoebae, and other unicellular organisms across supergroups of eukaryotes and in various ecosystems. The expanding collection of their genome sequences has revolutionized our view of virus genome size and coding capacity. Phylogenetic trees based on a few core genes are commonly used as a model to understand their evolution. However, the tree topology can differ between analyses, and the vast majority of encoded genes might not share a common evolutionary history. To explore the whole-genome variation and evolution of NCLDVs, we dissected their gene contents using clustering, network, and comparative analyses. Our updated core-gene tree served as a framework to classify NCLDVs into families and intrafamilial lineages, but networks of individual genomes and family pangenomes showed patterns of gene sharing that contradict with the tree topology, in particular at higher taxonomic levels. Clustering of NCLDV genomes revealed variable granularity and degrees of gene sharing within each family, which cannot be inferred from the tree. At the level of NCLDV families, a correlation exists between gene content variation, but not core-gene sequence divergence, and host supergroup diversity. In addition, there is significantly higher gene sharing between divergent viruses that infect similar host types. The identified shared genes would be a useful resource for further functional analyses of NCLDV–host interactions. Overall this study provides a comprehensive view of gene repertoire variation in NCLDVs at different taxonomic levels, as well as a novel approach to studying the extremely diverse giant virus genomes.
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- Tsu-Wang Sun
- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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Drachko D, Mikhailovskii V, Shishkin Y, Zlatogursky VV. Phylogenetic position and morphology of Raphidiophrys elongata sp. nov. (Haptista: Centroplasthelida) with notes on cyst wall structure and evolution. Eur J Protistol 2021; 81:125836. [PMID: 34624791 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2021.125836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The majority of centrohelids bear external coverings consisting of organic spicules or siliceous scales. Cyst coverings are usually reinforced with additional layers of modified scales. The cyst wall of Raphidiophrys heterophryoidea has an unusual and complex structure. It consists of three different types of scales and includes the mosaic scale layer not known in other centrohelids. During excystment, the cyst wall fragments along the sutures of the mosaic layer. For other Raphidiophrys species, cyst coverings are not studied. The present paper describes a new Raphidiophrys species, R. elongata, belonging to the NC7 environmental clade. Trophozoites bore thin plate scales with reduced upper plate. Under starvation, cysts emerged in clonal cultures. Cyst coverings of R. elongata and R. heterophryoidea were studied in comparison with the use of FIB-SEM. Cyst wall of R. elongata was significantly thinner than in R. heterophryoidea and was formed with 3-5 layers of uniform overlapping scales. No mosaic scale layer was present. During excystment, trophozoite exited cyst shell through random fissure. Possible evolutionary events and driving forces behind the complication of cyst wall within Raphidiophrys were discussed.
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- Daria Drachko
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaja nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia; Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Protistology, Zoological Institute RAS, Universitetskaja nab. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia.
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- Interdisciplinary Resource Center for Nanotechnology, Research Park, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaja nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaja nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaja nab. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Cooney EC, Okamoto N, Cho A, Hehenberger E, Richards TA, Santoro AE, Worden AZ, Leander BS, Keeling PJ. Single-Cell Transcriptomics of Abedinium Reveals a New Early-Branching Dinoflagellate Lineage. Genome Biol Evol 2021; 12:2417-2428. [PMID: 33045041 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Dinoflagellates possess many cellular characteristics with unresolved evolutionary histories. These include nuclei with greatly expanded genomes and chromatin packaged using histone-like proteins and dinoflagellate-viral nucleoproteins instead of histones, highly reduced mitochondrial genomes with extensive RNA editing, a mix of photosynthetic and cryptic secondary plastids, and tertiary plastids. Resolving the evolutionary origin of these traits requires understanding their ancestral states and early intermediates. Several early-branching dinoflagellate lineages are good candidates for such reconstruction, however these cells tend to be delicate and environmentally sparse, complicating such analyses. Here, we employ transcriptome sequencing from manually isolated and microscopically documented cells to resolve the placement of two cells of one such genus, Abedinium, collected by remotely operated vehicle in deep waters off the coast of Monterey Bay, CA. One cell corresponds to the only described species, Abedinium dasypus, whereas the second cell is distinct and formally described as Abedinium folium, sp. nov. Abedinium has classically been assigned to the early-branching dinoflagellate subgroup Noctilucales, which is weakly supported by phylogenetic analyses of small subunit ribosomal RNA, the single characterized gene from any member of the order. However, an analysis based on 221 proteins from the transcriptome places Abedinium as a distinct lineage, separate from and basal to Noctilucales and the rest of the core dinoflagellates. The transcriptome also contains evidence of a cryptic plastid functioning in the biosynthesis of isoprenoids, iron-sulfur clusters, and heme, a mitochondrial genome with all three expected protein-coding genes (cob, cox1, and cox3), and the presence of some but not all dinoflagellate-specific chromatin packaging proteins.
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- Elizabeth C Cooney
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Ocean Ecosystems Biology Unit, GEOMAR-Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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- Ocean Ecosystems Biology Unit, GEOMAR-Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Kiel University, Germany
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Gulbrandsen ØS, Andresen IJ, Krabberød AK, Bråte J, Shalchian-Tabrizi K. Phylogenomic analysis restructures the ulvophyceae. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2021; 57:1223-1233. [PMID: 33721355 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Revised: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Here, we present new transcriptome sequencing data from seven species of Dasycladales (Ulvophyceae) and a phylogenomic analysis of the Chlorophyta with a particular focus on Ulvophyceae. We have focused on a broad selection of green algal groups and carefully selected genes suitable for reconstructing deep eukaryote evolutionary histories. Increasing the taxon sampling of Dasycladales restructures the Ulvophyceae by identifying Dasycladales as closely related to Scotinosphaerales and Oltmannsiellopsidales. Contrary to previous studies, we do not find support for a close relationship between Dasycladales and a group with Cladophorales and Trentepohliales. Instead, the latter group is sister to the remainder of the Ulvophyceae. Furthermore, our analyses show high and consistent statistical support for a sister relationship between Bryopsidales and Chlorophyceae in trees generated with both homogeneous and heterogeneous (heterotachy) evolutionary models. Our study provides a new framework for interpreting the evolutionary history of Ulvophyceae and the evolution of cellular morphologies.
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- Øyvind Saetren Gulbrandsen
- Section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology (EVOGENE), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Kristine Bonnevies Hus, Blindernveien 31, 0316, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Faculty of Biosciences, Centre for Integrative Genetics, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology (EVOGENE), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Kristine Bonnevies Hus, Blindernveien 31, 0316, Oslo, Norway
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- Section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology (EVOGENE), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Kristine Bonnevies Hus, Blindernveien 31, 0316, Oslo, Norway
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- Section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology (EVOGENE), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Kristine Bonnevies Hus, Blindernveien 31, 0316, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Virology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Integrative Microbial Evolution (CIME), Centre for Epigenetics, Development and Evolution (CEDE), Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Kristine Bonnevies Hus, Blindernveien 31, 0316, Oslo, Norway
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The origin of plastids (chloroplasts) by endosymbiosis stands as one of the most important events in the history of eukaryotic life. The genetic, biochemical, and cell biological integration of a cyanobacterial endosymbiont into a heterotrophic host eukaryote approximately a billion years ago paved the way for the evolution of diverse algal groups in a wide range of aquatic and, eventually, terrestrial environments. Plastids have on multiple occasions also moved horizontally from eukaryote to eukaryote by secondary and tertiary endosymbiotic events. The overall picture of extant photosynthetic diversity can best be described as “patchy”: Plastid-bearing lineages are spread far and wide across the eukaryotic tree of life, nested within heterotrophic groups. The algae do not constitute a monophyletic entity, and understanding how, and how often, plastids have moved from branch to branch on the eukaryotic tree remains one of the most fundamental unsolved problems in the field of cell evolution. In this review, we provide an overview of recent advances in our understanding of the origin and spread of plastids from the perspective of comparative genomics. Recent years have seen significant improvements in genomic sampling from photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic lineages, both of which have added important pieces to the puzzle of plastid evolution. Comparative genomics has also allowed us to better understand how endosymbionts become organelles.
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- Shannon J Sibbald
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.,Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.,Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Phylogenomic fingerprinting of tempo and functions of horizontal gene transfer within ochrophytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2009974118. [PMID: 33419955 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2009974118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is an important source of novelty in eukaryotic genomes. This is particularly true for the ochrophytes, a diverse and important group of algae. Previous studies have shown that ochrophytes possess a mosaic of genes derived from bacteria and eukaryotic algae, acquired through chloroplast endosymbiosis and from HGTs, although understanding of the time points and mechanisms underpinning these transfers has been restricted by the depth of taxonomic sampling possible. We harness an expanded set of ochrophyte sequence libraries, alongside automated and manual phylogenetic annotation, in silico modeling, and experimental techniques, to assess the frequency and functions of HGT across this lineage. Through manual annotation of thousands of single-gene trees, we identify continuous bacterial HGT as the predominant source of recently arrived genes in the model diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Using a large-scale automated dataset, a multigene ochrophyte reference tree, and mathematical reconciliation of gene trees, we note a probable elevation of bacterial HGTs at foundational points in diatom evolution, following their divergence from other ochrophytes. Finally, we demonstrate that throughout ochrophyte evolutionary history, bacterial HGTs have been enriched in genes encoding secreted proteins. Our study provides insights into the sources and frequency of HGTs, and functional contributions that HGT has made to algal evolution.
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Tria FDK, Brueckner J, Skejo J, Xavier JC, Kapust N, Knopp M, Wimmer JLE, Nagies FSP, Zimorski V, Gould SB, Garg SG, Martin WF. Gene Duplications Trace Mitochondria to the Onset of Eukaryote Complexity. Genome Biol Evol 2021; 13:evab055. [PMID: 33739376 PMCID: PMC8175051 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The last eukaryote common ancestor (LECA) possessed mitochondria and all key traits that make eukaryotic cells more complex than their prokaryotic ancestors, yet the timing of mitochondrial acquisition and the role of mitochondria in the origin of eukaryote complexity remain debated. Here, we report evidence from gene duplications in LECA indicating an early origin of mitochondria. Among 163,545 duplications in 24,571 gene trees spanning 150 sequenced eukaryotic genomes, we identify 713 gene duplication events that occurred in LECA. LECA's bacterial-derived genes include numerous mitochondrial functions and were duplicated significantly more often than archaeal-derived and eukaryote-specific genes. The surplus of bacterial-derived duplications in LECA most likely reflects the serial copying of genes from the mitochondrial endosymbiont to the archaeal host's chromosomes. Clustering, phylogenies and likelihood ratio tests for 22.4 million genes from 5,655 prokaryotic and 150 eukaryotic genomes reveal no evidence for lineage-specific gene acquisitions in eukaryotes, except from the plastid in the plant lineage. That finding, and the functions of bacterial genes duplicated in LECA, suggests that the bacterial genes in eukaryotes are acquisitions from the mitochondrion, followed by vertical gene evolution and differential loss across eukaryotic lineages, flanked by concomitant lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes. Overall, the data indicate that recurrent gene transfer via the copying of genes from a resident mitochondrial endosymbiont to archaeal host chromosomes preceded the onset of eukaryotic cellular complexity, favoring mitochondria-early over mitochondria-late hypotheses for eukaryote origin.
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- Fernando D K Tria
- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
- Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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A Morpho-molecular Perspective on the Diversity and Evolution of Spumellaria (Radiolaria). Protist 2021; 172:125806. [PMID: 34174720 DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2021.125806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2020] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Spumellaria (Radiolaria, Rhizaria) are holoplanktonic amoeboid protists, ubiquitous and abundant in the global ocean. Their silicified skeleton preserves very well in sediments, displaying an excellent fossil record extremely valuable for paleo-environmental reconstruction studies, from where most of their extant diversity and ecology have been inferred. This study represents a comprehensive classification of Spumellaria based on the combination of ribosomal taxonomic marker genes (rDNA) and morphological characteristics. In contrast to established taxonomic knowledge, we demonstrate that symmetry of the skeleton takes more importance than internal structures at high classification ranks. Such reconsideration allows gathering different morphologies with concentric structure and spherical or radial symmetry believed to belong to other Radiolaria orders from the fossil record, as for some Entactinaria families. Our calibrated molecular clock dates the origin of Spumellaria in the middle Cambrian (ca. 515 Ma), among the first radiolarian representatives in the fossil record. This study allows a direct connection between living specimens and extinct morphologies from the Cambrian, bringing both a standpoint for future molecular environmental surveys and a better understanding for paleo-environmental reconstruction analysis.
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Salomaki ED, Terpis KX, Rueckert S, Kotyk M, Varadínová ZK, Čepička I, Lane CE, Kolisko M. Gregarine single-cell transcriptomics reveals differential mitochondrial remodeling and adaptation in apicomplexans. BMC Biol 2021; 19:77. [PMID: 33863338 PMCID: PMC8051059 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-01007-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Apicomplexa is a diverse phylum comprising unicellular endobiotic animal parasites and contains some of the most well-studied microbial eukaryotes including the devastating human pathogens Plasmodium falciparum and Cryptosporidium hominis. In contrast, data on the invertebrate-infecting gregarines remains sparse and their evolutionary relationship to other apicomplexans remains obscure. Most apicomplexans retain a highly modified plastid, while their mitochondria remain metabolically conserved. Cryptosporidium spp. inhabit an anaerobic host-gut environment and represent the known exception, having completely lost their plastid while retaining an extremely reduced mitochondrion that has lost its genome. Recent advances in single-cell sequencing have enabled the first broad genome-scale explorations of gregarines, providing evidence of differential plastid retention throughout the group. However, little is known about the retention and metabolic capacity of gregarine mitochondria. RESULTS Here, we sequenced transcriptomes from five species of gregarines isolated from cockroaches. We combined these data with those from other apicomplexans, performed detailed phylogenomic analyses, and characterized their mitochondrial metabolism. Our results support the placement of Cryptosporidium as the earliest diverging lineage of apicomplexans, which impacts our interpretation of evolutionary events within the phylum. By mapping in silico predictions of core mitochondrial pathways onto our phylogeny, we identified convergently reduced mitochondria. These data show that the electron transport chain has been independently lost three times across the phylum, twice within gregarines. CONCLUSIONS Apicomplexan lineages show variable functional restructuring of mitochondrial metabolism that appears to have been driven by adaptations to parasitism and anaerobiosis. Our findings indicate that apicomplexans are rife with convergent adaptations, with shared features including morphology, energy metabolism, and intracellularity.
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- Eric D Salomaki
- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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- School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA.
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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Goodson HV, Kelley JB, Brawley SH. Cytoskeletal diversification across 1 billion years: What red algae can teach us about the cytoskeleton, and vice versa. Bioessays 2021; 43:e2000278. [PMID: 33797088 DOI: 10.1002/bies.202000278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2020] [Revised: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The cytoskeleton has a central role in eukaryotic biology, enabling cells to organize internally, polarize, and translocate. Studying cytoskeletal machinery across the tree of life can identify common elements, illuminate fundamental mechanisms, and provide insight into processes specific to less-characterized organisms. Red algae represent an ancient lineage that is diverse, ecologically significant, and biomedically relevant. Recent genomic analysis shows that red algae have a surprising paucity of cytoskeletal elements, particularly molecular motors. Here, we review the genomic and cell biological evidence and propose testable models of how red algal cells might perform processes including cell motility, cytokinesis, intracellular transport, and secretion, given their reduced cytoskeletons. In addition to enhancing understanding of red algae and lineages that evolved from red algal endosymbioses (e.g., apicomplexan parasites), these ideas may also provide insight into cytoskeletal processes in animal cells.
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- Holly V Goodson
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
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- School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
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Limits to the cellular control of sequestered cryptophyte prey in the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum. THE ISME JOURNAL 2021; 15:1056-1072. [PMID: 33230263 PMCID: PMC8115319 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-00830-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Revised: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum is famous for its ability to acquire and exploit chloroplasts and other cell organelles from some cryptophyte algal species. We sequenced genomes and transcriptomes of free-swimming Teleaulax amphioxeia, as well as well-fed and starved M. rubrum in order to understand cellular processes upon sequestration under different prey and light conditions. From its prey, the ciliate acquires the ability to photosynthesize as well as the potential to metabolize several essential compounds including lysine, glycan, and vitamins that elucidate its specific prey dependency. M. rubrum does not express photosynthesis-related genes itself, but elicits considerable transcriptional control of the acquired cryptophyte organelles. This control is limited as light-dependent transcriptional changes found in free-swimming T. amphioxeia got lost after sequestration. We found strong transcriptional rewiring of the cryptophyte nucleus upon sequestration, where 35% of the T. amphioxeia genes were significantly differentially expressed within well-fed M. rubrum. Qualitatively, 68% of all genes expressed within well-fed M. rubrum originated from T. amphioxeia. Quantitatively, these genes contributed up to 48% to the global transcriptome in well-fed M. rubrum and down to 11% in starved M. rubrum. This tertiary endosymbiosis system functions for several weeks, when deprived of prey. After this point in time, the ciliate dies if not supplied with fresh prey cells. M. rubrum represents one evolutionary way of acquiring photosystems from its algal prey, and might represent a step on the evolutionary way towards a permanent tertiary endosymbiosis.
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Strassert JFH, Irisarri I, Williams TA, Burki F. A molecular timescale for eukaryote evolution with implications for the origin of red algal-derived plastids. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1879. [PMID: 33767194 PMCID: PMC7994803 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22044-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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In modern oceans, eukaryotic phytoplankton is dominated by lineages with red algal-derived plastids such as diatoms, dinoflagellates, and coccolithophores. Despite the ecological importance of these groups and many others representing a huge diversity of forms and lifestyles, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of their evolution and how they obtained their plastids. New hypotheses have emerged to explain the acquisition of red algal-derived plastids by serial endosymbiosis, but the chronology of these putative independent plastid acquisitions remains untested. Here, we establish a timeframe for the origin of red algal-derived plastids under scenarios of serial endosymbiosis, using Bayesian molecular clock analyses applied on a phylogenomic dataset with broad sampling of eukaryote diversity. We find that the hypotheses of serial endosymbiosis are chronologically possible, as the stem lineages of all red plastid-containing groups overlap in time. This period in the Meso- and Neoproterozoic Eras set the stage for the later expansion to dominance of red algal-derived primary production in the contemporary oceans, which profoundly altered the global geochemical and ecological conditions of the Earth.
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- Jürgen F H Strassert
- Department of Organismal Biology, Program in Systematic Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Ecosystem Research, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Program in Systematic Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen, and Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS), Göttingen, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Program in Systematic Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Rathbone HW, Michie KA, Landsberg MJ, Green BR, Curmi PMG. Scaffolding proteins guide the evolution of algal light harvesting antennas. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1890. [PMID: 33767155 PMCID: PMC7994580 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22128-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Photosynthetic organisms have developed diverse antennas composed of chromophorylated proteins to increase photon capture. Cryptophyte algae acquired their photosynthetic organelles (plastids) from a red alga by secondary endosymbiosis. Cryptophytes lost the primary red algal antenna, the red algal phycobilisome, replacing it with a unique antenna composed of αβ protomers, where the β subunit originates from the red algal phycobilisome. The origin of the cryptophyte antenna, particularly the unique α subunit, is unknown. Here we show that the cryptophyte antenna evolved from a complex between a red algal scaffolding protein and phycoerythrin β. Published cryo-EM maps for two red algal phycobilisomes contain clusters of unmodelled density homologous to the cryptophyte-αβ protomer. We modelled these densities, identifying a new family of scaffolding proteins related to red algal phycobilisome linker proteins that possess multiple copies of a cryptophyte-α-like domain. These domains bind to, and stabilise, a conserved hydrophobic surface on phycoerythrin β, which is the same binding site for its primary partner in the red algal phycobilisome, phycoerythrin α. We propose that after endosymbiosis these scaffolding proteins outcompeted the primary binding partner of phycoerythrin β, resulting in the demise of the red algal phycobilisome and emergence of the cryptophyte antenna. Cryptophytes acquired plastids from red algae but replaced the light-harvesting phycobilisome with a unique cryptophyte antenna. Here via analysis of phycobilisome cryo-EM structures, Rathbone et al. propose that the α subunit of the cryptophyte antenna originated from phycobilisome linker proteins
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- Harry W Rathbone
- School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.,Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Botany Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6N 3T7, Canada
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- School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
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Evidence for sponges as sister to all other animals from partitioned phylogenomics with mixture models and recoding. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1783. [PMID: 33741994 PMCID: PMC7979703 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22074-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 02/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Resolving the relationships between the major lineages in the animal tree of life is necessary to understand the origin and evolution of key animal traits. Sponges, characterized by their simple body plan, were traditionally considered the sister group of all other animal lineages, implying a gradual increase in animal complexity from unicellularity to complex multicellularity. However, the availability of genomic data has sparked tremendous controversy as some phylogenomic studies support comb jellies taking this position, requiring secondary loss or independent origins of complex traits. Here we show that incorporating site-heterogeneous mixture models and recoding into partitioned phylogenomics alleviates systematic errors that hamper commonly-applied phylogenetic models. Testing on real datasets, we show a great improvement in model-fit that attenuates branching artefacts induced by systematic error. We reanalyse key datasets and show that partitioned phylogenomics does not support comb jellies as sister to other animals at either the supermatrix or partition-specific level.
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Pyrih J, Žárský V, Fellows JD, Grosche C, Wloga D, Striepen B, Maier UG, Tachezy J. The iron-sulfur scaffold protein HCF101 unveils the complexity of organellar evolution in SAR, Haptista and Cryptista. BMC Ecol Evol 2021; 21:46. [PMID: 33740894 PMCID: PMC7980591 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-021-01777-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background Nbp35-like proteins (Nbp35, Cfd1, HCF101, Ind1, and AbpC) are P-loop NTPases that serve as components of iron-sulfur cluster (FeS) assembly machineries. In eukaryotes, Ind1 is present in mitochondria, and its function is associated with the assembly of FeS clusters in subunits of respiratory Complex I, Nbp35 and Cfd1 are the components of the cytosolic FeS assembly (CIA) pathway, and HCF101 is involved in FeS assembly of photosystem I in plastids of plants (chHCF101). The AbpC protein operates in Bacteria and Archaea. To date, the cellular distribution of these proteins is considered to be highly conserved with only a few exceptions. Results We searched for the genes of all members of the Nbp35-like protein family and analyzed their targeting sequences. Nbp35 and Cfd1 were predicted to reside in the cytoplasm with some exceptions of Nbp35 localization to the mitochondria; Ind1was found in the mitochondria, and HCF101 was predicted to reside in plastids (chHCF101) of all photosynthetically active eukaryotes. Surprisingly, we found a second HCF101 paralog in all members of Cryptista, Haptista, and SAR that was predicted to predominantly target mitochondria (mHCF101), whereas Ind1 appeared to be absent in these organisms. We also identified a few exceptions, as apicomplexans possess mHCF101 predicted to localize in the cytosol and Nbp35 in the mitochondria. Our predictions were experimentally confirmed in selected representatives of Apicomplexa (Toxoplasma gondii), Stramenopila (Phaeodactylum tricornutum, Thalassiosira pseudonana), and Ciliophora (Tetrahymena thermophila) by tagging proteins with a transgenic reporter. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that chHCF101 and mHCF101 evolved from a common ancestral HCF101 independently of the Nbp35/Cfd1 and Ind1 proteins. Interestingly, phylogenetic analysis supports rather a lateral gene transfer of ancestral HCF101 from bacteria than its acquisition being associated with either α-proteobacterial or cyanobacterial endosymbionts. Conclusion Our searches for Nbp35-like proteins across eukaryotic lineages revealed that SAR, Haptista, and Cryptista possess mitochondrial HCF101. Because plastid localization of HCF101 was only known thus far, the discovery of its mitochondrial paralog explains confusion regarding the presence of HCF101 in organisms that possibly lost secondary plastids (e.g., ciliates, Cryptosporidium) or possess reduced nonphotosynthetic plastids (apicomplexans). Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12862-021-01777-x.
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- Jan Pyrih
- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, BIOCEV, Průmyslová 595, 25250, Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, BIOCEV, Průmyslová 595, 25250, Vestec, Czech Republic
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- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Laboratory for Cell Biology, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35032, Marburg, Germany.,LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (Synmikro), Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Cytoskeleton and Cilia Biology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of Polish Academy of Sciences, 3 Pasteur Street, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.,Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 380 South University Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Laboratory for Cell Biology, Philipps University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35032, Marburg, Germany.,LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (Synmikro), Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, BIOCEV, Průmyslová 595, 25250, Vestec, Czech Republic.
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Mathur V, Kwong WK, Husnik F, Irwin NAT, Kristmundsson Á, Gestal C, Freeman M, Keeling PJ. Phylogenomics Identifies a New Major Subgroup of Apicomplexans, Marosporida class nov., with Extreme Apicoplast Genome Reduction. Genome Biol Evol 2021; 13:evaa244. [PMID: 33566096 PMCID: PMC7875001 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The phylum Apicomplexa consists largely of obligate animal parasites that include the causative agents of human diseases such as malaria. Apicomplexans have also emerged as models to study the evolution of nonphotosynthetic plastids, as they contain a relict chloroplast known as the apicoplast. The apicoplast offers important clues into how apicomplexan parasites evolved from free-living ancestors and can provide insights into reductive organelle evolution. Here, we sequenced the transcriptomes and apicoplast genomes of three deep-branching apicomplexans, Margolisiella islandica, Aggregata octopiana, and Merocystis kathae. Phylogenomic analyses show that these taxa, together with Rhytidocystis, form a new lineage of apicomplexans that is sister to the Coccidia and Hematozoa (the lineages including most medically significant taxa). Members of this clade retain plastid genomes and the canonical apicomplexan plastid metabolism. However, the apicoplast genomes of Margolisiella and Rhytidocystis are the most reduced of any apicoplast, are extremely GC-poor, and have even lost genes for the canonical plastidial RNA polymerase. This new lineage of apicomplexans, for which we propose the class Marosporida class nov., occupies a key intermediate position in the apicomplexan phylogeny, and adds a new complexity to the models of stepwise reductive evolution of genome structure and organelle function in these parasites.
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- Varsha Mathur
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Fish Disease Laboratory, Institute for Experimental Pathology, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
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- Institute of Marine Research (IIM-CSIC), Vigo, Spain
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- Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Irisarri I, Burki F, Whelan S. Automated Removal of Non-homologous Sequence Stretches with PREQUAL. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2231:147-162. [PMID: 33289892 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1036-7_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Large-scale multigene datasets used in phylogenomics and comparative genomics often contain sequence errors inherited from source genomes and transcriptomes. These errors typically manifest as stretches of non-homologous characters and derive from sequencing, assembly, and/or annotation errors. The lack of automatic tools to detect and remove sequence errors leads to the propagation of these errors in large-scale datasets. PREQUAL is a command line tool that identifies and masks regions with non-homologous adjacent characters in sets of unaligned homologous sequences. PREQUAL uses a full probabilistic approach based on pair hidden Markov models. On the front end, PREQUAL is user-friendly and simple to use while also allowing full customization to adjust filtering sensitivity. It is primarily aimed at amino acid sequences but can handle protein-coding nucleotide sequences. PREQUAL is computationally efficient and shows high sensitivity and accuracy. In this chapter, we briefly introduce the motivation for PREQUAL and its underlying methodology, followed by a description of basic and advanced usage, and conclude with some notes and recommendations. PREQUAL fills an important gap in the current bioinformatics tool kit for phylogenomics, contributing toward increased accuracy and reproducibility in future studies.
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- Iker Irisarri
- Department of Organismal Biology (Program in Systematic Biology), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain.
- Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
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- Department of Organismal Biology (Program in Systematic Biology), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics (Program in Evolutionary Biology), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Chabi M, Leleu M, Fermont L, Colpaert M, Colleoni C, Ball SG, Cenci U. Retracing Storage Polysaccharide Evolution in Stramenopila. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:629045. [PMID: 33747010 PMCID: PMC7965971 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.629045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 01/18/2021] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Eukaryotes most often synthesize storage polysaccharides in the cytosol or vacuoles in the form of either alpha (glycogen/starch)- or beta-glucosidic (chrysolaminarins and paramylon) linked glucan polymers. In both cases, the glucose can be packed either in water-soluble (glycogen and chrysolaminarins) or solid crystalline (starch and paramylon) forms with different impacts, respectively, on the osmotic pressure, the glucose accessibility, and the amounts stored. Glycogen or starch accumulation appears universal in all free-living unikonts (metazoa, fungi, amoebozoa, etc.), as well as Archaeplastida and alveolata, while other lineages offer a more complex picture featuring both alpha- and beta-glucan accumulators. We now infer the distribution of these polymers in stramenopiles through the bioinformatic detection of their suspected metabolic pathways. Detailed phylogenetic analysis of key enzymes of these pathways correlated to the phylogeny of Stramenopila enables us to retrace the evolution of storage polysaccharide metabolism in this diverse group of organisms. The possible ancestral nature of glycogen metabolism in eukaryotes and the underlying source of its replacement by beta-glucans are discussed.
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- Malika Chabi
- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576—UGSF—Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576—UGSF—Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Lille, France
- InBioS-PhytoSYSTEMS, Eukaryotic Phylogenomics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576—UGSF—Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576—UGSF—Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576—UGSF—Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576—UGSF—Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576—UGSF—Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Lille, France
- *Correspondence: Ugo Cenci,
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