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A flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest living relatives of animals

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ELIFE
卷 10, 期 -, 页码 -

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eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.61037

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  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Nicole King [ALTF 1474-2016]
  2. Brunet [000053/2017-L]
  3. Human Frontier Science Program

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Research suggests that choanoflagellates can switch to an amoeboid form when confined, retracting their flagella and activating myosin-based motility for escape. The conservation of the amoeboid cell phenotype across animals and choanoflagellates, along with the role of myosin, supports the hypothesis of homology in motility between the two lineages.
Amoeboid cell types are fundamental to animal biology and broadly distributed across animal diversity, but their evolutionary origin is unclear. The closest living relatives of animals, the choanoflagellates, display a polarized cell architecture (with an apical flagellum encircled by microvilli) that resembles that of epithelial cells and suggests homology, but this architecture differs strikingly from the deformable phenotype of animal amoeboid cells, which instead evoke more distantly related eukaryotes, such as diverse amoebae. Here, we show that choanoflagellates subjected to confinement become amoeboid by retracting their flagella and activating myosin-based motility. This switch allows escape from confinement and is conserved across choanoflagellate diversity. The conservation of the amoeboid cell phenotype across animals and choanoflagellates, together with the conserved role of myosin, is consistent with homology of amoeboid motility in both lineages. We hypothesize that the differentiation between animal epithelial and crawling cells might have evolved from a stress-induced switch between flagellate and amoeboid forms in their single-celled ancestors.

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