Oxygen-sensing mechanisms across eukaryotic kingdoms and their roles in complex multicellularity

Summary, in English

Oxygen-sensing mechanisms of eukaryotic multicellular organisms coordinate hypoxic cellular responses in a spatiotemporal manner. Although this capacity partly allows animals and plants to acutely adapt to oxygen deprivation, its functional and historical roots in hypoxia emphasize a broader evolutionary role. For multicellular life-forms that persist in settings with variable oxygen concentrations, the capacity to perceive and modulate responses in and between cells is pivotal. Animals and higher plants represent the most complex life-forms that ever diversified on Earth, and their oxygen-sensing mechanisms demonstrate convergent evolution from a functional perspective. Exploring oxygen-sensing mechanisms across eukaryotic kingdoms can inform us on biological innovations to harness ever-changing oxygen availability at the dawn of complex life and its utilization for their organismal development.

• Author: Emma U. Hammarlund; Emily Flashman; Sofie Mohlin; Francesco Licausi
• Department/s: LUCC: Lund University Cancer Centre; Lithosphere and Biosphere Science; Division of Translational Cancer Research; Childhood Cancer Research Unit
• Publishing year: 2020
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Science (New York, N.Y.)
• Volume: 370
• Issue: 6515
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aba3512
• Document type: Journal article review
• Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Topic: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Status: Published
• Research group: Childhood Cancer Research Unit
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1095-9203