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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 107, 期 22, 页码 10142-10147出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002257107
关键词
cell adhesion; lateral gene transfer; metazoan origins; multicellularity
资金
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- Institucio Catalana per a la Recerca i Estudis Avancats
- European Research Council [206883]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) [BFU2008-02839/BMC]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP 62809]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM089977] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
The evolution of animals (metazoans) from their unicellular ancestors required the emergence of novel mechanisms for cell adhesion and cell-cell communication. One of the most important cell adhesion mechanisms for metazoan development is integrin-mediated adhesion and signaling. The integrin adhesion complex mediates critical interactions between cells and the extracellular matrix, modulating several aspects of cell physiology. To date this machinery has been considered strictly metazoan specific. Here we report the results of a comparative genomic analysis of the integrin adhesion machinery, using genomic data from several unicellular relatives of Metazoa and Fungi. Unexpectedly, we found that core components of the integrin adhesion complex are encoded in the genome of the apusozoan protist Amastigomonas sp., and therefore their origins predate the divergence of Opisthokonta, the clade that includes metazoans and fungi. Furthermore, our analyses suggest that key components of this apparatus have been lost independently in fungi and choanoflagellates. Our data highlight the fact that many of the key genes that had formerly been cited as crucial for metazoan origins have a much earlier origin. This underscores the importance of gene cooption in the unicellular-to-multicellular transition that led to the emergence of the Metazoa.
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