These include highly complex features such as the cytoskeleton, the endomembrane system, protein trafficking, Csuros M, Rogozin IB, Koonin EV: Extremely intron-rich genes in the alveolate ancestors inferred with a flexible maximum-likelihood approach. Reductive evolution refers to the evolutionary modality typical of parasites: they tend to lose genes, organelles and functions when the respective functionalities are taken over by the host. Second, functional studies in prokaryotes, particularly archaea, show that not only the molecular components of the several signature eukaryotic systems but also their actual structures and functions have evolved in archaea and thus predate eukaryogenesis. Hubbard SR, Till JH: Protein tyrosine kinase structure and function. Gray MW, Burger G, Lang BF: Mitochondrial evolution. Biochem J. Hunter T: The age of crosstalk: phosphorylation, ubiquitination, and beyond. 2008, 8: 14-10.1186/1471-2148-8-14. 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Although many of the bacterial-like genes in eukaryotes have α-proteobacterial homologues, these are far from dominant amongst the bacterial-like genes which show apparent evolutionary affinities with a variety of bacterial groups (Figure 2). Venancio TM, Balaji S, Iyer LM, Aravind L: Reconstructing the ubiquitin network: cross-talk with other systems and identification of novel functions. 2008, 105: 8102-8107. 2009, 458: 422-429. 1. The diverse origins of eukaryotic functional systems has major implications for how eukaryotes originated, as explained below. Amaral PP, Dinger ME, Mercer TR, Mattick JS: The eukaryotic genome as an RNA machine. All eukaryotes seem to possess mitochondria or related organelles derived from α-proteobacteria, whereas Plantae and many groups of Chromalveolata additionally have cyanobacteria-derived plastids [76, 77]. Dikic I, Wakatsuki S, Walters KJ: Ubiquitin-binding domains - from structures to functions. However, many scientists place the appearance of eukaryotic cells at about 2 billion years. Roger AJ: Reconstructing early events in eukaryotic evolution. 2001, 11: 240-252. 2009, 4: 24-10.1186/1745-6150-4-24. This volume examines the origin of eukaryotic cells both phylogenetically and morphogenetically. For example, the plant MUSTANG and FAR/FHY families of TFs evolved from MULE DNA transposons [ 29, 30 ]. Under the symbiogenesis scenario, diverse pre-existing systems of the archaeal host were co-opted and expanded within the emerging eukaryotic cellular organization [66]. However, the archaezoan scenario does not provide a plausible staging of events during the evolution of the complex internal organization of the eukaryotic cell, does not offer a raison d'être for the nucleus, and does not account for the presence of signature functional systems of eukaryotes in different archaeal lineages. FEBS Lett. Unequivocal resolution of such deep evolutionary relationships is extremely difficult. Nucleic Acids Res. Bioessays. Biol Lett. First, prokaryotic endosymbionts in prokaryotic hosts are not widespread, prompting the view that phagocytosis, which is apparently unique to eukaryotic cells, was critical for the acquisition of the mitochondrion [3]. Privacy In particular, whatever the actual nature of the archaeal-like ancestor, it probably lived at moderate temperatures and non-extreme conditions and was consequently in contact with a diverse bacterial community. 2004, 3: 1612-1637. French SL, Santangelo TJ, Beyer AL, Reeve JN: Transcription and translation are coupled in Archaea. 10.1098/rstb.2006.1845. 10.1101/gr.223902. Chapman EJ, Carrington JC: Specialization and evolution of endogenous small RNA pathways. volume 11, Article number: 209 (2010) Nature. Nature. 10.1073/pnas.0801980105. Kurland CG, Collins LJ, Penny D: Genomics and the irreducible nature of eukaryote cells. The real problem is sexuality itself and sexual reproduction in particular. 2009, 4: 9-10.1186/1745-6150-4-9. 2003, 13: R665-R666. The first alternative to the crown group tree was proposed by Cavalier-Smith and coworkers [56–58], who used rare genomic changes (RGCs) [59], such as the fusion of two enzyme genes [56, 57] and the domain structure of myosins [58], to place the root between the Unikonts and the rest of eukaryotes (I (red arrow) in Figure 1). Hoffmeister M, Martin W: Interspecific evolution: microbial symbiosis, endosymbiosis and gene transfer. 2009, 31: 1273-1279. Koonin EV, Fedorova ND, Jackson JD, Jacobs AR, Krylov DM, Makarova KS, Mazumder R, Mekhedov SL, Nikolskaya AN, Rao BS, Rogozin IB, Smirnov S, Sorokin AV, Sverdlov AV, Vasudevan S, Wolf YI, Yin JJ, Natale DA: A comprehensive evolutionary classification of proteins encoded in complete eukaryotic genomes. However, on many occasions, careful sequence and structure searches have revealed archaeal and/or bacterial homologs of proteins originally considered ESPs, or else the existence of such homologs became obvious with the appearance of new genomes [66]. Giezen van der M: Hydrogenosomes and mitosomes: conservation and evolution of functions. CAS  the emergence of the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all cellular life-forms. 2009, 4: 39-10.1186/1745-6150-4-39. mitochondria, and plastids; changes to the form and content of eukaryotic genomes (e.g., the origins of chromatin, spliceosomal 10.1093/molbev/msm095. Results Drawing on … 10.1093/nar/30.7.1427. 10.1073/pnas.0807880106. Front Biosci. 2001, 412: 433-436. Curr Biol. In the next section I examine the possibility of multiple archaeal and bacterial ancestors of the eukaryotes with respect to distinct functional systems of eukaryotic cells. Science. 10.1093/nar/gki775. 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A typical eukaryotic cell is about 1,000-fold bigger by volume than a typical bacterium or archaeon, and functions under different physical principles: free diffusion has little role in eukaryotic cells, but is crucial in prokaryotes [7, 8]. Koonin EV, Wolf YI: Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world. The serial endosymbiosis theory, currently the most popular hypothesis to explain the origin of … 2008, 38: 1-31. Precursors of these epigenetic systems may have first evolved in the context of bacterial conflict systems. Sogin ML, Morrison HG, Hinkle G, Silberman JD: Ancestral relationships of the major eukaryotic lineages. 10.1093/molbev/msi091. The compartmentalization of eukaryotic cells is supported by an elaborate endomembrane system and by the actin-tubulin-based cytoskeleton [9, 10]. Google Scholar. 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Although proving monophyly is non-trivial for these groups [46–48], the general structure of the tree, with a few supergroups forming a star-like phylogeny (Figure 1), is reproduced consistently, and the latest results [49–52] seem to support the monophyly of the five supergroups. The provenance of ESPs is an intriguing question. The articles in this collection cover a wide range of subjects that can be broadly divided into two major themes: the key 2007, 2: 38-10.1186/1745-6150-2-38. Biol Direct. Altschul SF, Madden TL, Schaffer AA, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Miller W, Lipman DJ: Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Yet, the origin of key eukaryotic features, namely the nucleus and cytoskeleton, remains poorly understood. 2002, 99: 1420-1425. 10.1093/molbev/msn108. Dagan T, Artzy-Randrup Y, Martin W: Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral transfer in prokaryote genome evolution. 2008, 105: 18942-18946. Below are the links to the authors’ original submitted files for images. Some time within Proterozoic Eon, then, all three major groups of life – Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryotes – became well established. Genome Res. Filee J, Forterre P, Sen-Lin T, Laurent J: Evolution of DNA polymerase families: evidences for multiple gene exchange between cellular and viral proteins. Science. Mol Biol Evol. 10.1266/ggs.83.285. The key accomplishment at this new stage was the proposal of 'supergroups' of eukaryotes that are suggested to combine highly diverse groups of organisms in a monophyletic group [36, 43–45]. Hypotheses for the origin of eukaryotes. The nuclear pore complex, a quintessential eukaryotic molecular machine, does not show any indications of archaeal ancestry but rather consists of proteins of apparent bacterial origin combined with proteins consisting of simple repeats whose provenance is difficult to ascertain [28]. Biol Direct. 10.1093/molbev/msn039. © 2021 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. The emergence of eukaryotic cells from prokaryotic ancestors about 2 billion years ago was a pivotal evolutionary transition in the history of life on Earth. However, the pangenomes of prokaryotes are large whereas the gene composition of individual organisms is highly flexible [123, 124], so reconstruction of the actual partners of the endosymbiosis that led to eukaryogenesis might not be feasible from a limited set of extant genomes. 2002, 12: 532-542. Modern archaea with such lifestyles have numerous genes of diverse bacterial origins, indicating extensive horizontal acquisition of genes from bacteria [84, 85]. These include the archaeal proteasome [110], exosome [111] and Sm-protein complex, the progenitor of the spliceosome [112], the ESCRT-III membrane remodeling system [113, 114], actin-like proteins [105] and a prototype of the ubiquitin system of protein modification [115]. 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An important cause of this complicated breakdown of the bacterial-like component of the eukaryotic gene complement is the large size of the α-proteobacterial pangenome, that is, of the combined genes found in all α-proteobacteria, and the associated diversity of the gene sets in individual members of this group [82]. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. Vishwanath P, Favaretto P, Hartman H, Mohr SC, Smith TF: Ribosomal protein-sequence block structure suggests complex prokaryotic evolution with implications for the origin of eukaryotes. Aravind L, Iyer LM, Anantharaman V: The two faces of Alba: the evolutionary connection between proteins participating in chromatin structure and RNA metabolism. 2008, 105: 20356-20361. 2004, 21: 1643-1660. 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The eukaryotic ssDNA viruses apparently evolved via a fusion of genes from prokaryotic rolling circle-replicating plasmids and positive-strand RNA viruses. Cell. Adv Exp Med Biol. The 'crown' of this evolutionary tree included animals (Metazoa) and plants (Viridiplantae), fungi and various assortments of protists, depending on the methods used for tree construction [33, 34]. 10.1038/nature07958. 10.1016/j.tree.2008.06.005. Science. Bapteste E, Charlebois RL, MacLeod D, Brochier C: The two tempos of nuclear pore complex evolution: highly adapting proteins in an ancient frozen structure. 2008, 4: 366-369. The key to the origin of eukaryotes will undoubtedly be found using comparative genomics of eukaryotes, archaea and bacteria. Carmel L, Wolf YI, Rogozin IB, Koonin EV: Three distinct modes of intron dynamics in the evolution of eukaryotes. PubMed Google Scholar. What Was the Real Contribution of Endosymbionts to the Eukaryotic Nucleus? 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The likely origins of proteins and domains are shown by color code for three key functional systems of the eukaryotic cell: (a) B-family DNA polymerases comprising the core of the replication apparatus (triangles show Zn-finger modules; crosses indicate inactivated enzymatic domains; pol, polymerase; exo, exonuclease) [100]; (b) RNA interference (RNAi) machinery (RdRp, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase) [70]; and (c) cell division apparatus (the Vps4 ATPase and Snf7-like proteins comprise the ESCRT-III machinery) and cytoskeleton [97, 98, 105, 113]. von Dohlen CD, Kohler S, Alsop ST, McManus WR: Mealybug beta-proteobacterial endosymbionts contain gamma-proteobacterial symbionts. Background Although the origin of the eukaryotic cell has long been recognized as the single most profound change in cellular organization during the evolution of life on earth, this transition remains poorly understood. 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