The Great Billion-year War between Ribosome- and Capsid-encoding Organisms (Cells and Viruses) as the Major Source of Evolutionary Novelties

被引:114
作者
Forterre, Patrick [1 ,2 ]
Prangishvili, David [1 ]
机构
[1] Inst Pasteur, BMGE, F-75015 Paris, France
[2] Univ Paris Sud, Inst Genet & Microbiol, CNRS, UMR 8621, F-91405 Orsay, France
来源
NATURAL GENETIC ENGINEERING AND NATURAL GENOME EDITING | 2009年 / 1178卷
关键词
viruses; cells; natural selection; evolution; DNA VIRUSES; ORIGIN; REPLICATION; GENOMES; WORLD; HYPOTHESIS; ORGANELLES; DIVERSITY; PROTEINS; BACTERIA;
D O I
10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04993.x
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Our conceptions on the origin, nature, and role of viruses have been shaken recently by several independent lines of research. There are many reasons to believe now that viruses are more ancient than modern cells and have always been more abundant and diverse than their cellular targets. Viruses can be defined as capsid-encoding organisms that transform their "host" cell into a viral factory. If capsid-encoding organisms (viruses) and ribosome-encoding organisms (cells) are the major types of living entities on our planet, it seems logical to conclude that their conflict has been a major engine of biological evolution (in the framework of natural selection). In particular, many novelties first selected in the viral world might have been transferred to cells as a consequence of the continuous flow of viral genes into cellular genomes. We discuss recent observations and hypotheses suggesting that viruses have played a major role at different stages of biological evolution, such as the RNA to DNA transition, the origin of the eukaryotic nucleus, or, alternatively, the origin of unique features in multicellular macrobes.
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