Horizontal and endosymbiotic gene transfer in early plastid evolution
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Summary: Plastids evolved from a cyanobacterium that was engulfed by a heterotrophic eukaryotic host and became a stable organelle. Some of the resulting eukaryotic algae entered into a number of secondary endosymbioses with diverse eukaryotic hosts. These events had major consequences on the evolution and diversification of life on Earth. Although almost all plastid diversity derives from a single endosymbiotic event, the analysis of nuclear genomes of plastid‐bearing lineages has revealed a mosaic origin of plastid‐related genes. In addition to cyanobacterial genes, plastids recruited for their functioning eukaryotic proteins encoded by the host nucleus and also bacterial proteins of noncyanobacterial origin. Therefore, plastid proteins and plastid‐localised metabolic pathways evolved by tinkering and using gene toolkits from different sources. This mixed heritage seems especially complex in secondary algae containing green plastids, the acquisition of which appears to have been facilitated by many previous acquisitions of red algal genes (the ‘red carpet hypothesis’).
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CASH lineages have plastids related to red algae, but the mechanisms by which they were acquired and the ancestors involved remain unclear.
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- Authors
- Ponce‐Toledo, R. I., López‐García, P., & Moreira, D.
- Affiliations
- Unité d'Ecologie Systématique et Evolution CNRS Université Paris‐Sud AgroParisTech Université Paris‐Saclay 91400 Orsay France
- Université Paris-Sud (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Moreira, David
- Venue
- New Phytologist
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2019-07-04
- Volume
- 224
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 618-624
- ISSN
- 0028-646X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8137
- PMC
- PMC6759420
- OpenAlex
- W2946856823
- Cited by
- 107
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 1.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- New Phytologist (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- H2020 European Research Council (322669)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (‘ANCESSTRAM’ ANR‐15‐CE32‐0003)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Keywords
- plastid evolution, endosymbiosis, horizontal gene transfer, secondary endosymbiosis, nuclear gene transfer, eukaryotic algae
- MeSH terms
- Biological Evolution, Gene Expression Regulation, Photosynthesis, Symbiosis, Plastids, Gene Transfer, Horizontal
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