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The remodelling of organelle function is increasingly appreciated as a central driver of eukaryotic biodiversity and evolution. Kinetoplastids including Trypanosoma and Leishmania have evolved specialized peroxisomes, called glycosomes. Glycosomes uniquely contain a glycolytic pathway as well as other enzymes, which underpin the physiological flexibility of these major human pathogens. The sister group of kinetoplastids are the diplonemids, which are among the most abundant eukaryotes in marine plankton. Here we demonstrate the compartmentalization of gluconeogenesis, or glycolysis in reverse, in the peroxisomes of the free-living marine diplonemid, Diplonema papillatum. Our results suggest that peroxisome modification was already under way in the common ancestor of kinetoplastids and diplonemids, and raise the possibility that the central importance of gluconeogenesis to carbon metabolism in the heterotrophic free-living ancestor may have been an important selective driver. Our data indicate that peroxisome modification is not confined to the kinetoplastid lineage, but has also been a factor in the success of their free-living euglenozoan relatives.
Author(s): Morales J, Hashimoto M, Williams TA, Hirawake-Mogi H, Makiuchi T, Tsubouchi A, Kaga N, Taka H, Fujimura T, Koike M, Mita T, Bringaud F, Concepcion JL, Hashimoto T, Embley TM, Nara T
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Year: 2016
Volume: 283
Issue: 1830
Print publication date: 11/05/2016
Online publication date: 11/05/2016
Acceptance date: 12/04/2016
ISSN (print): 0962-8452
ISSN (electronic): 1471-2954
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0520
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0520
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