Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF Medical School, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
Res Microbiol. 2011 Jul-Aug;162(6):607-18. doi: 10.1016/j.resmic.2011.03.003. Epub 2011 Mar 21.
Naegleria gruberi, a free-living protist, has long been treasured as a model for basal body and flagellar assembly due to its ability to differentiate from crawling amoebae into swimming flagellates. The full genome sequence of Naegleria gruberi has recently been used to estimate gene families ancestral to all eukaryotes and to identify novel aspects of Naegleria biology, including likely facultative anaerobic metabolism, extensive signaling cascades, and evidence for sexuality. Distinctive features of the Naegleria genome and nuclear biology provide unique perspectives for comparative cell biology, including cell division, RNA processing and nucleolar assembly. We highlight here exciting new and novel aspects of Naegleria biology identified through genomic analysis.
纳格里虫,一种自由生活的原生动物,由于其能够从爬行变形虫分化为游动鞭毛虫,因此长期以来一直被视为基体和鞭毛组装的模型。纳格里虫的全基因组序列最近被用于估计所有真核生物的祖先进化基因家族,并鉴定纳格里虫生物学的新方面,包括可能的兼性厌氧代谢、广泛的信号级联以及有性生殖的证据。纳格里虫基因组和核生物学的独特特征为比较细胞生物学提供了独特的视角,包括细胞分裂、RNA 处理和核仁组装。我们在这里重点介绍通过基因组分析鉴定的纳格里虫生物学的令人兴奋的新方面和新方面。