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Analyses of Mitochondrial Calcium Influx in Isolated Mitochondria and Cultured Cells
Published on: April 27, 2018
La diversidad evolutiva de las uniportadoras de calcio mitocondriales
Alexander G Bick1, Sarah E Calvo, Vamsi K Mootha
1Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 19, 2012
Resumen
El uniporter de calcio mitocondrial (MCU) y su socio MICU1 se encuentran en todos los eucariotas, lo que sugiere un origen antiguo. Algunas bacterias también pueden poseer canales de calcio relacionados.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología mitocondrial Biología mitocondrial
- Evolución molecular de la evolución molecular.
- La función del canal iónico es la función del canal iónico.
Sus antecedentes:
- Las mitocondrias regulan el calcio celular.
- El uniporter de calcio mitocondrial (MCU, por sus siglas en inglés) facilita la absorción de calcio.
- El complejo MCU incluye la subunidad de poros MCU y la subunidad reguladora MICU1.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para investigar la distribución evolutiva de MCU y MICU1.
- Para determinar los orígenes filogenéticos del uniporter de calcio mitocondrial.
- Para explorar potenciales homólogos procariotas de MCU.
Principales métodos:
- Análisis filogenómico de los homólogos de MCU y MICU1.
- Genómica comparativa entre los dominios eucarióticos y bacterianos.
Principales resultados:
- Los homólogos de MCU y MICU1 están muy extendidos en los eucariotas, co-ocurriendo en la mayoría de los linajes.
- Pérdida de MCU y MICU1 observada en grupos específicos de protozoos y hongos.
- Homólogos putativos de MCU identificados en varios genomas bacterianos.
Conclusiones:
- El uniporter de calcio mitocondrial probablemente se originó temprano en la evolución eucariota.
- La presencia de homólogos bacterianos de MCU sugiere antiguos canales de calcio procariotas.
- El análisis evolutivo proporciona información sobre la función mitocondrial.
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