Laura Eme An additional comment is that some jakobids also possess a mitochondrial SecY (but not SecA, SecE, and SecG), but it is much more divergent. The structures of the Mantamonas SecY and SecA are remarkably conserved compared to their bacterial homologues:

The story of Margaret Dayhoff and others involved in the early days of research into protein evolution link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Many thanks to Michelle Leger and Ryan Gawryluk for their nice Dispatch commenting our work on Mantamonas mitochondria! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Highly recommend reading the Dispatch by Michelle Leger and Ryan Gawryluk. It's a thorough and well-written perspective on the relevance of our findings! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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First free-living eukaryote known to completely lose its m̸i̸n̸d̸ mitochondrion by Shelby, Psi Wavefunction, Courtney Stairs, Andrew J. Roger and other authors. See DOI: 10.1111/jeu.13048 & DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50991-w

A great collaboration with our wonderful coauthors Laura Eme, Alastair Simpson, Hector Baños, Ed Susko, Charley McCarthy, Ryoma Kamikawa, Sergio Muñoz-Gómez, Russell Orr funded by Simons Foundation & Moore Foundation "origin of the eukaryotic cell" grant

Was the last eukaryotic common ancestor an "excavate"? Fascinating new insights into the root of eukaryotes. (On a more personal note, what I like the most about screening for bioRxiv is that sometimes I get to see beautiful science before (almost) anyone else 🤩)

Postdoc position available to work with me, in collaboration with Chris Lane Chris Lane, on Nephromyces, the closest non-parasitic, extracellular symbiont relatives of the blood parasites (Plasmodium et al). How did the business of blood parasitism start? jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48203/