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ArticleBiological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society2023

Lessons from the deep: mechanisms behind diversification of eukaryotic protein complexes.

Galina Prokopchuk, Anzhelika Butenko, Joel B Dacks, Dave Speijer, Mark C Field, Julius Lukeš

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Article in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Galina ProkopchukInstitute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 1160/31, České Budějovice, 37005, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-7623-5354
Anzhelika ButenkoInstitute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 1160/31, České Budějovice, 37005, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0001-8685-2404
Joel B DacksInstitute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 1160/31, České Budějovice, 37005, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-4520-5694
Dave SpeijerMedical Biochemistry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2340-2753
Mark C FieldInstitute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 1160/31, České Budějovice, 37005, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-4866-2885
Julius LukešInstitute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 1160/31, České Budějovice, 37005, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-0578-6618
University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice · CZAmsterdam University Medical Centers · NLUniversity of Alberta · CAUniversity of Dundee · GBUniversity of Ostrava · CZ

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 204697/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic variation is the major mechanism behind adaptation and evolutionary change. As most proteins operate through interactions with other proteins, changes in protein complex composition and subunit sequence provide potentially new functions. Comparative genomics can reveal expansions, losses and sequence divergence within protein-coding genes, but in silico analysis cannot detect subunit substitutions or replacements of entire protein complexes. Insights into these fundamental evolutionary processes require broad and extensive comparative analyses, from both in silico and experimental evidence. Here, we combine data from both approaches and consider the gamut of possible protein complex compositional changes that arise during evolution, citing examples of complete conservation to partial and total replacement by functional analogues. We focus in part on complexes in trypanosomes as they represent one of the better studied non-animal/non-fungal lineages, but extend insights across the eukaryotes by extensive comparative genomic analysis. We argue that gene loss plays an important role in diversification of protein complexes and hence enhancement of eukaryotic diversity.

Indexed as

EukaryotaEvolution, MolecularGenomicsPhylogenyconstructive neutral evolutionevolutionary divergenceevolutionary mechanismsgene replacementmolecular evolutionprotein complexes

Identifiers

PMID37336550
PMCPMC10952624
OpenAlexW4381250177

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