Stress Responses Co‐Opted for Specialized Cell Types During the Early Evolution of Multicellularity: The Role of Stress in the Evolution of Cell Types Can Be Traced Back to the Early Evolution of Multicellularity
Stress Responses Co‐Opted for Specialized Cell Types During the Early Evolution of Multicellularity: The Role of Stress in the Evolution of Cell Types Can Be Traced Back to the Early Evolution of Multicellularity
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在多细胞生物的早期进化过程中,应激反应选择了专门的细胞类型:应激在细胞类型进化中的作用可以追溯到多细胞生物的早期进化
DOI:
10.1002/bies.202000029
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发表时间:
2020
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4
通讯作者:
Michod, Richard E.
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作者:
Nedelcu, Aurora M.;Michod, Richard E.
In a recent Hypothesis article, Wagner et al.[1] proposed a mechanistic model that links the origin of new cell types to ancestral cellular responses to stress. The model is built around their finding that the signal transduction cascade involved in the cell differentiation of a cell type critical to pregnancy in humans (the decidual stromal cell) evolved from a cellular stress reaction. The authors state that to their knowledge,“a mechanistic link between the cellular stress response and the evolution of novel cell types or organs has only been proposed in the context of eye evolution.” In this Commentary, we argue that the role of stress in the evolution of new cell types can be traced back to the origin of the two most fundamental cell types in a multicellular organism—somatic cells and germ cells. Our thesis stems from both conceptual grounds and mechanistic evidence, including three examples of stress responses co-opted for specialized new cell types during the early evolution of multicellularity. Multicellularity has evolved dozens of times, independently in evolutionarily distinct lineages—from bacteria to animals. However, complex multicellularity—ie, multicellularity with one or more specialized cell types—is only known in a handful of groups (green, red, brown algae; fungi; plants; animals). Why and how complex multicellularity evolved? Conceptually, we have argued that the transition from simple to complex multicellularity was driven by life history trade-offs between survival and reproduction.[2, 3] Specifically, under the selective pressure to increase body size (eg, to evade predation), the benefit of a large body in terms of survival became offset by the cost of reproducing it (eg, time to reproduction). In some multicellular lineages, this trade-off was uncoupled through the evolution of somatic cells that ensured survival while germ cells reproduced the mul-