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Pittis, A.A.* ; Goh, V. ; Cebrian Serrano, A. ; Wettmarshausen, J. ; Perocchi, F. ; Gabaldón, T.*

Discovery of EMRE in fungi resolves the true evolutionary history of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter.

Nat. Commun. 11, 4031 (2020)
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Calcium (Ca2+) influx into mitochondria occurs through a Ca2+-selective uniporter channel, which regulates essential cellular processes in eukaryotic organisms. Previous evolutionary analyses of its pore-forming subunits MCU and EMRE, and gatekeeper MICU1, pinpointed an evolutionary paradox: the presence of MCU homologs in fungal species devoid of any other uniporter components and of mt-Ca2+ uptake. Here, we trace the mt-Ca2+ uniporter evolution across 1,156 fully-sequenced eukaryotes and show that animal and fungal MCUs represent two distinct paralogous subfamilies originating from an ancestral duplication. Accordingly, we find EMRE orthologs outside Holoza and uncover the existence of an animal-like uniporter within chytrid fungi, which enables mt-Ca2+ uptake when reconstituted in vivo in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Our study represents the most comprehensive phylogenomic analysis of the mt-Ca2+ uptake system and demonstrates that MCU, EMRE, and MICU formed the core of the ancestral opisthokont uniporter, with major implications for comparative structural and functional studies. The mitochondrial calcium uptake system, crucial for cellular processes, evolved in ancient eukaryotes. Here, authors perform a phylogenomic analysis across 1,156 eukaryotes, and show that previously identified animal and fungal genes in this system originated from an ancestral duplication.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Schlagwörter Micu1; Mcu; Protein; Homeostasis
Sprache englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr 2020
HGF-Berichtsjahr 2020
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2041-1723
e-ISSN 2041-1723
Zeitschrift Nature Communications
Quellenangaben Band: 11, Heft: 1, Seiten: 4031 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Nature Publishing Group
Verlagsort London
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
POF Topic(s) 30201 - Metabolic Health
Forschungsfeld(er) Helmholtz Diabetes Center
PSP-Element(e) G-502295-001
G-502200-001
Scopus ID 85089384759
PubMed ID 32788582
Erfassungsdatum 2020-10-16