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Eukaryotic Cell Biology And The Tree Of Life Flashcards

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Structure

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  1. Carl Woese (ribosomes, methodology, archaea)
  2. Super Tree Analysis
  3. Reconstructing LECA
  4. ESGs
  5. Early eukaryotes
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Carl Woese

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used rRNA genes to calculate the tree of life

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What do you need to calculate the tree?

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  • a universal gene
  • mixture of evolutionary rates
  • easy to sequence
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rRNA genes

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  • lots! doesn’t need PCR to amplify
  • extract and run on gel
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Ribosomes

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  • RNA + proteins
  • drive translation
  • large subunit guide tRNA
  • small subunit is mRNA BS
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Methodology

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1) incubate cell cultures with 32-P
2) extract RNA
3) run 2D gel electrophoresis
4) expose gel to photo film
5) interpret fringerprint to characterise rRNA gene sequence
6) compare sequences using distance measurements
7) calculate Tree of Life

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32-P

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Incorporated into Dna

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Photo film

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  • radioactive RNA Fragments mark the film; generates a map/fingerprint
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Interpret

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Annotate

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What did ssu rRNA reveal?

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Archaea ; 3D tree

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3D Tree

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  • assumed rooted tree
  • interpretation caution requiref
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Archaea

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  • extreme + mesophyllic (marine water column [Nitrosopumilis maritimus] and soil [Nitrosodphaera virnnensis])
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ssu rRNA gene advantages

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  • ds/ss regions determine 2• structure
  • range of evolution rates; correspond to rRNA 2• structure
  • helpful for resolution + taxon-specific PCR primers
  • conserved
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ssu rRNA gene disadvantages

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• phylogenies subject to LBA

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LBA

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makes groups with fast rRNA evolution (Microsporidia, amitochondriates), appear as deep eukaryotic branches

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Partial LBA control?

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1) concatenation ssu and lsu rRNA alignments w/ models that account for heterogenous sequence evolution
2) concatenation with 45 protein sequence alignments

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Partial LBA control reveals…

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2D model

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2D

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  • Eukaryotes evolved from within the archaea
  • archaea: eukaryotic progenitor cellular chassis
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Super Tree Analysis

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  • calculates trees independently, one gene family at a time; no concatenation
  • forms a matrix of relationships
  • calculates “best” tree
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Adding eukaryotes to the prokaryotic super tree analysis reveals…

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1) within the Cyanobacteria; relic of plastic endosymbiosis
2) [strip all genes w Cyanobacteria sisterhood]
3) α-proteobactetia; relic of mitochondrial endosymbiosis
4) [strip]
5) 2D!

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Questions after Sta?

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1) 7.4% γ-proteobacterial
2) 4.9% spirochaetes
- alternative signal/input?
- noise?

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Situation after STA

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  • 13.9% archaea
  • 10.8% α-proteobacterial
  • 21% cyanobacterial
  • 54% unresolved bacteria-like
  • Ring!
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Reconstructing LECA

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1) compare extant taxa, looking for similar gene families/ cellular features
2) verify vertical trait evolution between gene and cellular trait (no HGT)
3) map to resolved species tree

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LECA

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  • Complex eukaryotic cell, much like extant heterotrophic protist
  • sophisticated, highly derived organellar system
  • 23 Rab GTPAses
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LECA chimaera

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1) bacterial cell membrane
2) mitochondrial genome
3) archael MCMs
4) archael histone-bound chromatin
5) archael ribosomes

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Bacterial + organelles cell membrane

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  • D-glycerol ester
  • unbranched fatty acid chains
  • sn-glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P)
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Archael cell membrane

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  • L-glycerol ether
  • branched isoprenoid chains
  • sn-glycerol-1-phosphate (G1P)
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α-proteobacterial derived mitochondrial genome

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  • circular
  • nuclear encoded, mitochondrial/cytoplasmic localised proteome
  • mitogenome + ribosome
  • ETC proteins
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Archaea as part of the chimera

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  • informational functions
  • lower HGT
  • ^ protein protein interactions
  • ^ expression
  • conditional essentiality for viability under KO
  • nuclear, DNA management
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FECA -> LECA

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gene duplication

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MCMS

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  • Archaea: homohexamer
  • Eukaryotes: heterohexamer
  • essential universal condition
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Histone-bound chromatin

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  • homologous
  • Archaea: 3 dimers wrap c90bp DNA
  • Eukaryotes: heterohexamer wraps 146bp
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Ribosomes

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  • structural similarity
  • all archael r-proteins are represented in Eukaryotes
  • no crossover in r-proteins between Archaea and Bacteria
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ESPs

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De novo acquisition
1) cytoskeleton components
2) ribosome proteins
3) EM
4) signalling

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EM

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  • maintains eukaryotic organellar systems via subcellular targeting mechanisms
  • co-operative action of multiple paralog-rich protein families
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EM Families

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  • SNARES
  • Rab GTPases
  • ensure specificity and fusion of carriers and targets
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Tubulin cytoskeleton

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  • diversified ESPs
  • numerous rounds of gene duplication
  • kinesin, myosin
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Dacks model

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  • Gene duplication, and multiple specificity-encoding proteins drives increased organellar complexity
  • single primordial EM compartment differentiates into an array of organelles
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Myosin-Actin cytoskeleton

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  • protein domain recombination * gene duplication
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Early Eukaryotes

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  • intron invasion and expansion facilitates protein domain recombination via alternative splicing
  • functional network complexity ^
  • gene architecture modularity ^
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Duplication

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  • gene innovation through architecture recombination
  • ^ gene dosage
  • neo- and subfunctonalisation

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