Asgard archaea defense systems and their roles in the origin of eukaryotic immunity.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
31 Jul 2024
Historique:
received: 16 04 2024
accepted: 28 06 2024
medline: 1 8 2024
pubmed: 1 8 2024
entrez: 31 7 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Dozens of new antiviral systems have been recently characterized in bacteria. Some of these systems are present in eukaryotes and appear to have originated in prokaryotes, but little is known about these defense mechanisms in archaea. Here, we explore the diversity and distribution of defense systems in archaea and identify 2610 complete systems in Asgardarchaeota, a group of archaea related to eukaryotes. The Asgard defense systems comprise 89 unique systems, including argonaute, NLR, Mokosh, viperin, Lassamu, and CBASS. Asgard viperin and argonaute proteins have structural homology to eukaryotic proteins, and phylogenetic analyses suggest that eukaryotic viperin proteins were derived from Asgard viperins. We show that Asgard viperins display anti-phage activity when heterologously expressed in bacteria. Eukaryotic and bacterial argonaute proteins appear to have originated in Asgardarchaeota, and Asgard argonaute proteins have argonaute-PIWI domains, key components of eukaryotic RNA interference systems. Our results support that Asgardarchaeota played important roles in the origin of antiviral defense systems in eukaryotes.

Identifiants

pubmed: 39085212
doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-50195-2
pii: 10.1038/s41467-024-50195-2
doi:

Substances chimiques

Archaeal Proteins 0
Argonaute Proteins 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

6386

Subventions

Organisme : Simons Foundation
ID : 73592LPI
Organisme : Welch Foundation
ID : F-1808

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Pedro Leão (P)

Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. pedro.leao@ru.nl.
Department of Marine Science, Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, USA. pedro.leao@ru.nl.
Department of Microbiology - RIBES, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. pedro.leao@ru.nl.

Mary E Little (ME)

Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.

Kathryn E Appler (KE)

Department of Marine Science, Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, USA.

Daphne Sahaya (D)

Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.

Emily Aguilar-Pine (E)

Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.

Kathryn Currie (K)

Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.

Ilya J Finkelstein (IJ)

Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.

Valerie De Anda (V)

Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Department of Marine Science, Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, USA.

Brett J Baker (BJ)

Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. acidophile@gmail.com.
Department of Marine Science, Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, USA. acidophile@gmail.com.

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