Most scientists share the view that a symbiosis in which
an archaeal host cell took up a bacterium ultimately gave rise to eukaryotes.
The putative
archaeal host existed in a stable symbiotic relationship with one or more bacterial species, with the capacity for both gene and lipid exchange between species.
Excitingly, these proteins are functionally enriched for membrane bending, vesicular biogenesis, and trafficking activities, suggesting that eukaryotes evolved from
an archaeal host that contained some key components that governed the emergence of eukaryotic cellular complexity after endosymbiosis.
Not exact matches
Hartman suggested in 1984 that the nucleus arose when a hypothetical cell that stored its genetic information as RNA instead of DNA and possessed a simple cytoskeleton became the
host for an
archaeal organism.
By using new methods to obtain genome data from microbes that can not be grown in the laboratory, we identified a new
archaeal group that is related to the
host cell from which eukaryotic cells evolved.