阿斯加德古菌对真核生物起源的主要贡献。

Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis.

作者信息

Tobiasson Victor, Luo Jacob, Wolf Yuri I, Koonin Eugene V

出版信息

bioRxiv. 2025 Jul 14:2024.10.14.618318. doi: 10.1101/2024.10.14.618318.

Abstract

The origin of eukaryotes is one of the key problems in evolutionary biology . The demonstration that the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) already contained the mitochondrion, an endosymbiotic organelle derived from an alphaproteobacterium, and the discovery of Asgard archaea, the closest archaeal relatives of eukaryotes , inform and constrain evolutionary scenarios of eukaryogenesis . We undertook a comprehensive analysis of the origins of core eukaryotic genes tracing to the LECA within a rigorous statistical framework centered around evolutionary hypotheses testing using constrained phylogenetic trees. The results reveal dominant contributions of Asgard archaea to the origin of most of the conserved eukaryotic functional systems and pathways. A limited contribution from Alphaproteobacteria was identified, primarily relating to the energy transformation systems and Fe-S cluster biogenesis, whereas ancestry from other bacterial phyla was scattered across the eukaryotic functional landscape, without clear consistent trends. These findings suggest a model of eukaryogenesis in which key features of eukaryotic cell organization evolved in the Asgard lineage leading to the LECA, followed by the capture of the Alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont, and augmented by numerous but sporadic horizontal acquisition of genes from other bacteria both before and after endosymbiosis.

摘要

真核生物的起源是进化生物学中的关键问题之一。有证据表明,最后的真核生物共同祖先(LECA)已经包含线粒体,这是一种源自α-变形菌的内共生细胞器,以及真核生物最亲近的古菌亲属阿斯加德古菌的发现,为真核生物起源的进化场景提供了信息并加以限制。我们在一个以使用受限系统发育树进行进化假设检验为中心的严格统计框架内,对追溯到LECA的核心真核基因的起源进行了全面分析。结果显示,阿斯加德古菌对大多数保守的真核功能系统和途径的起源有主要贡献。已确定α-变形菌的贡献有限,主要与能量转换系统和铁硫簇生物合成有关,而其他细菌门的祖先则分散在真核功能图景中,没有明显一致的趋势。这些发现提出了一种真核生物起源模型,即真核细胞组织的关键特征在导致LECA的阿斯加德谱系中进化,随后捕获了α-变形菌内共生体,并在共生之前和之后通过从其他细菌大量但零星的水平基因获取而得到增强。

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