Organelle Evolution: Paulinella Breaks a Paradigm

نویسندگان

  • Andrzej Bodył
  • Paweł Mackiewicz
  • Przemysław Gagat
چکیده

It is commonly assumed that transformations of endosymbionts into organelles are exceptionally rare evolutionary events because of hypothetical difficulties in the origin of an import apparatus for nuclear-encoded, organelle-targeted proteins along with their targeting signals. A challenge to this view comes from recent studies of protein import into the cyanobacterial endosymbionts/organelles of Paulinella chromatophora.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Current Biology

دوره 22  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012