The evolutionary origins and ancestral features of septins
Delic S, Shuman B, Lee S, Bahmanyar S, Momany M, Onishi M. The evolutionary origins and ancestral features of septins. Frontiers In Cell And Developmental Biology 2024, 12: 1406966. PMID: 38994454, PMCID: PMC11238149, DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2024.1406966.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchArginine fingerAncestral featuresEvolutionary originAncestral-sequence reconstructionChlorophyte green algaeFunction of septinsEukaryotic common ancestorGroups of orthologsCoiled-coil domainDiverse molecular functionsGuanine-nucleotide binding proteinsGlaucophyte algaeNon-opisthokontsGTPase domainDuplication eventsPhylogenetic relationshipsAncestral functionOrganelle fissionPhylogenetic treeAncestral traitCiliate speciesPhylogenetic groupsInteraction motifsAmphipathic helixCommon ancestor