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Hadjivasiliou Z, Kruse K. Selection for Size in Molecular Self-Assembly Drives the De Novo Evolution of a Molecular Machine. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:208402. [PMID: 38039477 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.208402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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The functioning of machines typically requires a concerted action of their parts. This requirement also holds for molecular motors that drive vital cellular processes and imposes constraints on their conformational changes as well as the rates at which they occur. It remains unclear whether, during evolution, features required for functional molecular machines can emerge simultaneously or require sequential adaptation to different selection pressures. We address this question by theoretically analyzing the evolution of filament treadmilling. This process refers to the self-assembly of linear polymers that grow and shrink at equal rates at their opposite ends. It constitutes a simple biological molecular machine that is involved in bacterial cell division and requires that several conditions are met. In our simulation framework, treadmilling emerges as a consequence of selecting for a target average polymer length. We discuss why other forms of assembly dynamics, which also reach the imposed target length, do not emerge in our simulations. Our work shows that complex molecular functions can evolve de novo under selection for a single physical feature.
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- Zena Hadjivasiliou
- London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Institute for the Physics of Living Systems, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Mathematical and Physical Biology Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- NCCR for Chemical Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Hadjivasiliou Z, Hunter G. Talking to your neighbors across scales: Long-distance Notch signaling during patterning. Curr Top Dev Biol 2022; 150:299-334. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2022.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Michailidi MR, Hadjivasiliou Z, Aguilar-Hidalgo D, Basagiannis D, Seum C, Dubois M, Jülicher F, Gonzalez-Gaitan M. Morphogen gradient scaling by recycling of intracellular Dpp. Nature 2021; 602:287-293. [PMID: 34937053 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04346-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Morphogen gradients are fundamental to establish morphological patterns in developing tissues1. During development, gradients scale to remain proportional to the size of growing organs2,3. Scaling is a universal gear adjusting patterns to size in living organisms3-8, yet its mechanisms remain unclear. Here, focusing on the Dpp gradient in the Drosophila wing disc, we unravel a cell biological basis behind scaling. From small to large discs, scaling of the Dpp gradient is achieved by increasing the contribution of the internalized Dpp molecules to Dpp transport: to expand the gradient, endocytosed molecules are re-exocytosed to spread extracellularly. To regulate the contribution of endocytosed Dpp to the spreading extracellular pool during tissue growth, it is the Dpp binding rates that are progressively modulated by the extracellular factor Pentagone, driving scaling. Thus, for some morphogens, evolution may act on endocytic trafficking to regulate the range of the gradient and its scaling, which could allow adaptation of shape and pattern to different sizes of organs in different species.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Mateus R, Holtzer L, Seum C, Hadjivasiliou Z, Dubois M, Jülicher F, Gonzalez-Gaitan M. BMP Signaling Gradient Scaling in the Zebrafish Pectoral Fin. Cell Rep 2020; 30:4292-4302.e7. [PMID: 32209485 PMCID: PMC7109522 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2019] [Revised: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Secreted growth factors can act as morphogens that form spatial concentration gradients in developing organs, thereby controlling growth and patterning. For some morphogens, adaptation of the gradients to tissue size allows morphological patterns to remain proportioned as the organs grow. In the zebrafish pectoral fin, we found that BMP signaling forms a two-dimensional gradient. The length of the gradient scales with tissue length and its amplitude increases with fin size according to a power-law. Gradient scaling and amplitude power-laws are signatures of growth control by time derivatives of morphogenetic signaling: cell division correlates with the fold change over time of the cellular signaling levels. We show that Smoc1 regulates BMP gradient scaling and growth in the fin. Smoc1 scales the gradient by means of a feedback loop: Smoc1 is a BMP agonist and BMP signaling represses Smoc1 expression. Our work uncovers a layer of morphogen regulation during vertebrate appendage development.
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- Rita Mateus
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
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Hadjivasiliou Z, Moore RE, McIntosh R, Galea GL, Clarke JDW, Alexandre P. Basal Protrusions Mediate Spatiotemporal Patterns of Spinal Neuron Differentiation. Dev Cell 2020; 49:907-919.e10. [PMID: 31211994 PMCID: PMC6584357 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.05.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Revised: 02/26/2019] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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During early spinal cord development, neurons of particular subtypes differentiate with a sparse periodic pattern while later neurons differentiate in the intervening space to eventually produce continuous columns of similar neurons. The mechanisms that regulate this spatiotemporal pattern are unknown. In vivo imaging in zebrafish reveals that differentiating spinal neurons transiently extend two long protrusions along the basal surface of the spinal cord before axon initiation. These protrusions express Delta protein, consistent with the hypothesis they influence Notch signaling at a distance of several cell diameters. Experimental reduction of Laminin expression leads to smaller protrusions and shorter distances between differentiating neurons. The experimental data and a theoretical model support the proposal that neuronal differentiation pattern is regulated by transient basal protrusions that deliver temporally controlled lateral inhibition mediated at a distance. This work uncovers a stereotyped protrusive activity of newborn neurons that organize long-distance spatiotemporal patterning of differentiation.
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- Zena Hadjivasiliou
- Department of Biochemistry, Science II, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, UK
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- Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, UK; Developmental Biology and Cancer, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Developmental Biology and Cancer, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, UK.
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- Developmental Biology and Cancer, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK.
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Hadjivasiliou Z, Pomiankowski A. Evolution of asymmetric gamete signaling and suppressed recombination at the mating type locus. eLife 2019; 8:48239. [PMID: 31464685 PMCID: PMC6715347 DOI: 10.7554/elife.48239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2019] [Accepted: 07/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The two partners required for sexual reproduction are rarely the same. This pattern extends to species which lack sexual dimorphism yet possess self-incompatible gametes determined at mating-type regions of suppressed recombination, likely precursors of sex chromosomes. Here we investigate the role of cellular signaling in the evolution of mating-types. We develop a model of ligand-receptor dynamics, and identify factors that determine the capacity of cells to send and receive signals. The model specifies conditions favoring the evolution of gametes producing ligand and receptor asymmetrically and shows how these are affected by recombination. When the recombination rate evolves, the conditions favoring asymmetric signaling also favor tight linkage of ligand and receptor loci in distinct linkage groups. These results suggest that selection for asymmetric gamete signaling could be the first step in the evolution of non-recombinant mating-type loci, paving the road for the evolution of anisogamy and sexes. Sexual reproduction, from birds to bees, relies on distinct classes of sex cells, known as gametes, fusing together. Most single cell organisms, rather than producing eggs and sperm, have similar sized gametes that fall into distinct ‘mating types’. However, only sex cells belonging to different mating types can fuse together and sexually reproduce. At first glance, it seems illogical that cells from the same mating type cannot reproduce with each other, as this restricts eligible partners within a population and makes finding a mate more difficult. Yet the typical pattern amongst single cell organisms is still two distinct classes of sex cells, just as in birds and bees. How did the obsession with mating between two different types become favored during evolution? One possibility is that cells with different mating types can recognize and communicate with each other more easily. Cells communicate by releasing proteins known as ligands, which bind to specific receptors found on the cell’s surface. Using mathematical modelling, Hadjivasiliou and Pomiankowski showed that natural selection typically favors ‘asymmetric’ signaling, whereby cells evolve to either produce receptor A with ligand B, or have the reverse pattern and produce receptor B with ligand A. These asymmetric mutants are favored because they avoid producing ligands that clog or activate the receptors on their own surface. As a result, different types of cells are better at recognizing each other and mating more quickly. When cells sexually reproduce they exchange genetic material with each other to produce offspring with a combination of genes that differ to their own. However, if the genes coding for ligand and receptor pairs were constantly being ‘swapped’, this could lead to new combinations, and a loss of asymmetric signaling. Hadjivasiliou and Pomiankowski showed that for asymmetric signaling to evolve, natural selection favors the genes encoding these non-compatible ligand and receptor pairs to be closely linked within the genome. This ensures that the mis-matching ligand and receptor are inherited together, preventing cells from producing pairs which can bind to themselves. This study provides an original way to address an evolutionary question which has long puzzled biologists. These findings raise further questions about how gametes evolved to become the sperm and egg, and how factors such as signaling between cells can determine the sex of more complex organisms, such as ourselves.
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- Zena Hadjivasiliou
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX), University College London, London, United Kingdom.,Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX), University College London, London, United Kingdom.,Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Hadjivasiliou Z, Pomiankowski A. Gamete signalling underlies the evolution of mating types and their number. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017; 371:rstb.2015.0531. [PMID: 27619695 PMCID: PMC5031616 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The gametes of unicellular eukaryotes are morphologically identical, but are nonetheless divided into distinct mating types. The number of mating types varies enormously and can reach several thousand, yet most species have only two. Why do morphologically identical gametes need to be differentiated into self-incompatible mating types, and why is two the most common number of mating types? In this work, we explore a neglected hypothesis that there is a need for asymmetric signalling interactions between mating partners. Our review shows that isogamous gametes always interact asymmetrically throughout sex and argue that this asymmetry is favoured because it enhances the efficiency of the mating process. We further develop a simple mathematical model that allows us to study the evolution of the number of mating types based on the strength of signalling interactions between gametes. Novel mating types have an advantage as they are compatible with all others and rarely meet their own type. But if existing mating types coevolve to have strong mutual interactions, this restricts the spread of novel types. Similarly, coevolution is likely to drive out less attractive mating types. These countervailing forces specify the number of mating types that are evolutionarily stable. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Weird sex: the underappreciated diversity of sexual reproduction’.
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- Zena Hadjivasiliou
- Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Radzvilavicius AL, Hadjivasiliou Z, Pomiankowski A, Lane N. Selection for Mitochondrial Quality Drives Evolution of the Germline. PLoS Biol 2016; 14:e2000410. [PMID: 27997535 PMCID: PMC5172535 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2000410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The origin of the germline-soma distinction is a fundamental unsolved question. Plants and basal metazoans do not have a germline but generate gametes from pluripotent stem cells in somatic tissues (somatic gametogenesis). In contrast, most bilaterians sequester a dedicated germline early in development. We develop an evolutionary model which shows that selection for mitochondrial quality drives germline evolution. In organisms with low mitochondrial replication error rates, segregation of mutations over multiple cell divisions generates variation, allowing selection to optimize gamete quality through somatic gametogenesis. Higher mutation rates promote early germline sequestration. We also consider how oogamy (a large female gamete packed with mitochondria) alters selection on the germline. Oogamy is beneficial as it reduces mitochondrial segregation in early development, improving adult fitness by restricting variation between tissues. But it also limits variation between early-sequestered oocytes, undermining gamete quality. Oocyte variation is restored through proliferation of germline cells, producing more germ cells than strictly needed, explaining the random culling (atresia) of precursor cells in bilaterians. Unlike other models of germline evolution, selection for mitochondrial quality can explain the stability of somatic gametogenesis in plants and basal metazoans, the evolution of oogamy in all plants and animals with tissue differentiation, and the mutational forces driving early germline sequestration in active bilaterians. The origins of predation in motile bilaterians in the Cambrian explosion is likely to have increased rates of tissue turnover and mitochondrial replication errors, in turn driving germline evolution and the emergence of complex developmental processes.
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- Arunas L. Radzvilavicius
- Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Hadjivasiliou Z, Hunter GL, Baum B. A new mechanism for spatial pattern formation via lateral and protrusion-mediated lateral signalling. J R Soc Interface 2016; 13:20160484. [PMID: 27807273 PMCID: PMC5134009 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2016] [Accepted: 10/11/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Tissue organization and patterning are critical during development when genetically identical cells take on different fates. Lateral signalling plays an important role in this process by helping to generate self-organized spatial patterns in an otherwise uniform collection of cells. Recent data suggest that lateral signalling can be mediated both by junctional contacts between neighbouring cells and via cellular protrusions that allow non-neighbouring cells to interact with one another at a distance. However, it remains unclear precisely how signalling mediated by these distinct types of cell-cell contact can physically contribute to the generation of complex patterns without the assistance of diffusible morphogens or pre-patterns. To explore this question, in this work we develop a model of lateral signalling based on a single receptor/ligand pair as exemplified by Notch and Delta. We show that allowing the signalling kinetics to differ at junctional versus protrusion-mediated contacts, an assumption inspired by recent data which show that the cleavage of Notch in several systems requires both Delta binding and the application of mechanical force, permits individual cells to act to promote both lateral activation and lateral inhibition. Strikingly, under this model, in which Delta can sequester Notch, a variety of patterns resembling those typical of reaction-diffusion systems is observed, together with more unusual patterns that arise when we consider changes in signalling kinetics, and in the length and distribution of protrusions. Importantly, these patterns are self-organizing-so that local interactions drive tissue-scale patterning. Together, these data show that protrusions can, in principle, generate different types of patterns in addition to contributing to long-range signalling and to pattern refinement.
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- Zena Hadjivasiliou
- Centre for Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- MRC-Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
- Institute of Physics of Living Systems, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- MRC-Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
- Institute of Physics of Living Systems, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Predictions about the evolution of sex determination mechanisms have mainly focused on animals and plants, whereas unicellular eukaryotes such as fungi and ciliates have received little attention. Many taxa within the latter groups can stochastically switch their mating type identity during vegetative growth. Here, we investigate the hypothesis that mating type switching overcomes distortions in the distribution of mating types due to drift during asexual growth. Using a computational model, we show that smaller population size, longer vegetative periods and more mating types lead to greater distortions in the distribution of mating types. However, the impact of these parameters on optimal switching rates is not straightforward. We find that longer vegetative periods cause reductions and considerable fluctuations in the switching rate over time. Smaller population size increases the strength of selection for switching but has little impact on the switching rate itself. The number of mating types decreases switching rates when gametes can freely sample each other, but increases switching rates when there is selection for speedy mating. We discuss our results in light of empirical work and propose new experiments that could further our understanding of sexuality in isogamous eukaryotes.
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- Zena Hadjivasiliou
- CoMPLEX, Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life sciences and Experimental biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom. .,Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom.
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- CoMPLEX, Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life sciences and Experimental biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom.,Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom
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- CoMPLEX, Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life sciences and Experimental biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom.,Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom
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Hunter GL, Hadjivasiliou Z, Bonin H, He L, Perrimon N, Charras G, Baum B. Coordinated control of Notch/Delta signalling and cell cycle progression drives lateral inhibition-mediated tissue patterning. Development 2016; 143:2305-10. [PMID: 27226324 PMCID: PMC4958321 DOI: 10.1242/dev.134213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2015] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Coordinating cell differentiation with cell growth and division is crucial for the successful development, homeostasis and regeneration of multicellular tissues. Here, we use bristle patterning in the fly notum as a model system to explore the regulatory and functional coupling of cell cycle progression and cell fate decision-making. The pattern of bristles and intervening epithelial cells (ECs) becomes established through Notch-mediated lateral inhibition during G2 phase of the cell cycle, as neighbouring cells physically interact with each other via lateral contacts and/or basal protrusions. Since Notch signalling controls cell division timing downstream of Cdc25, ECs in lateral contact with a Delta-expressing cell experience higher levels of Notch signalling and divide first, followed by more distant neighbours, and lastly Delta-expressing cells. Conversely, mitotic entry and cell division makes ECs refractory to lateral inhibition signalling, fixing their fate. Using a combination of experiments and computational modelling, we show that this reciprocal relationship between Notch signalling and cell cycle progression acts like a developmental clock, providing a delimited window of time during which cells decide their fate, ensuring efficient and orderly bristle patterning. Summary: In the fly notum, a reciprocal relationship between Notch signalling and cell cycle progression acts like a clock, providing a delimited window of time during which cells decide their fate.
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- Ginger L Hunter
- MRC-Laboratory for Molecular and Cell Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK Institute of Physics of Living Systems, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Centre for Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- MRC-Laboratory for Molecular and Cell Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Institute of Physics of Living Systems, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- MRC-Laboratory for Molecular and Cell Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK Institute of Physics of Living Systems, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Bar-Yaacov D, Hadjivasiliou Z, Levin L, Barshad G, Zarivach R, Bouskila A, Mishmar D. Mitochondrial Involvement in Vertebrate Speciation? The Case of Mito-nuclear Genetic Divergence in Chameleons. Genome Biol Evol 2015; 7:3322-36. [PMID: 26590214 PMCID: PMC4700957 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Compatibility between the nuclear (nDNA) and mitochondrial (mtDNA) genomes is important for organismal health. However, its significance for major evolutionary processes such as speciation is unclear, especially in vertebrates. We previously identified a sharp mtDNA-specific sequence divergence between morphologically indistinguishable chameleon populations (Chamaeleo chamaeleon recticrista) across an ancient Israeli marine barrier (Jezreel Valley). Because mtDNA introgression and gender-based dispersal were ruled out, we hypothesized that mtDNA spatial division was maintained by mito-nuclear functional compensation. Here, we studied RNA-seq generated from each of ten chameleons representing the north and south populations and identified candidate nonsynonymous substitutions (NSSs) matching the mtDNA spatial distribution. The most prominent NSS occurred in 14 nDNA-encoded mitochondrial proteins. Increased chameleon sample size (N = 70) confirmed the geographic differentiation in POLRMT, NDUFA5, ACO1, LYRM4, MARS2, and ACAD9. Structural and functionality evaluation of these NSSs revealed high functionality. Mathematical modeling suggested that this mito-nuclear spatial divergence is consistent with hybrid breakdown. We conclude that our presented evidence and mathematical model underline mito-nuclear interactions as a likely role player in incipient speciation in vertebrates.
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- Dan Bar-Yaacov
- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Centre for Mathematics, Physics and Engineering in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, UCL, London, United Kingdom Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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Hadjivasiliou Z, Iwasa Y, Pomiankowski A. Cell-cell signalling in sexual chemotaxis: a basis for gametic differentiation, mating types and sexes. J R Soc Interface 2015; 12:20150342. [PMID: 26156301 PMCID: PMC4535405 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2015] [Accepted: 06/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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While sex requires two parents, there is no obvious need for them to be differentiated into distinct mating types or sexes. Yet this is the predominate state of nature. Here, we argue that mating types could play a decisive role because they prevent the apparent inevitability of self-stimulation during sexual signalling. We rigorously assess this hypothesis by developing a model for signaller-detector dynamics based on chemical diffusion, chemotaxis and cell movement. Our model examines the conditions under which chemotaxis improves partner finding. Varying parameter values within ranges typical of protists and their environments, we show that simultaneous secretion and detection of a single chemoattractant can cause a multifold movement impediment and severely hinder mate finding. Mutually exclusive roles result in faster pair formation, even when cells conferring the same roles cannot pair up. This arrangement also allows the separate mating types to optimize their signalling or detecting roles, which is effectively impossible for cells that are both secretors and detectors. Our findings suggest that asymmetric roles in sexual chemotaxis (and possibly other forms of sexual signalling) are crucial, even without morphological differences, and may underlie the evolution of gametic differentiation among both mating types and sexes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Zena Hadjivasiliou
- Centre for Mathematics, Physics and Engineering in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX), University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
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- Centre for Mathematics, Physics and Engineering in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX), University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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The uniparental inheritance (UPI) of mitochondria is thought to explain the evolution of two mating types or even true sexes with anisogametes. However, the exact role of UPI is not clearly understood. Here, we develop a new model, which considers the spread of UPI mutants within a biparental inheritance (BPI) population. Our model explicitly considers mitochondrial mutation and selection in parallel with the spread of UPI mutants and self-incompatible mating types. In line with earlier work, we find that UPI improves fitness under mitochondrial mutation accumulation, selfish conflict and mitonuclear coadaptation. However, we find that as UPI increases in the population its relative fitness advantage diminishes in a frequency-dependent manner. The fitness benefits of UPI ‘leak’ into the biparentally reproducing part of the population through successive matings, limiting the spread of UPI. Critically, while this process favours some degree of UPI, it neither leads to the establishment of linked mating types nor the collapse of multiple mating types to two. Only when two mating types exist beforehand can associated UPI mutants spread to fixation under the pressure of high mitochondrial mutation rate, large mitochondrial population size and selfish mutants. Variation in these parameters could account for the range of UPI actually observed in nature, from strict UPI in some Chlamydomonas species to BPI in yeast. We conclude that UPI of mitochondria alone is unlikely to have driven the evolution of two mating types in unicellular eukaryotes.
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Hadjivasiliou Z, Pomiankowski A, Seymour RM, Lane N. Selection for mitonuclear co-adaptation could favour the evolution of two sexes. Proc Biol Sci 2011; 279:1865-72. [PMID: 22158961 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Mitochondria are descended from free-living bacteria that were engulfed by another cell between one and a half to two billion years ago. A redistribution of DNA led to most genetic information being lost or transferred to a large central genome in the nucleus, leaving a residual genome in each mitochondrion. Oxidative phosphorylation, the most critical function of mitochondria, depends on the functional compatibility of proteins encoded by both the nucleus and mitochondria. We investigate whether selection for adaptation between the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes (mitonuclear co-adaptation) could, in principle, have promoted uniparental inheritance of mitochondria and thereby the evolution of two mating types or sexes. Using a mathematical model, we explore the importance of the radical differences in ploidy levels, sexual and asexual modes of inheritance, and mutation rates of the nucleus and mitochondria. We show that the major features of mitochondrial inheritance, notably uniparental inheritance and bottlenecking, enhance the co-adaptation of mitochondrial and nuclear genes and therefore improve fitness. We conclude that, under a wide range of conditions, selection for mitonuclear co-adaptation favours the evolution of two distinct mating types or sexes in sexual species.
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