{"response":{"status":"ok","message_type":"publication"},"id":4446,"citation":"Wu et al., 2022, Nature Microbiology","doi":"10.1038/s41564-021-01039-y","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/publications/4446.json","link_ext":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-01039-y","title":"Unique mobile elements and scalable gene flow at the prokaryote–eukaryote boundary revealed by circularized Asgard archaea genomes","journal":"Nature Microbiology","journal_loc":"7 (2)","journal_date":"2022-01-13","pub_type":"journal-article","abstract":"\u003cjats:title\u003eAbstract\u003c/jats:title\u003e\u003cjats:p\u003eEukaryotic genomes are known to have garnered innovations from both archaeal and bacterial domains but the sequence of events that led to the complex gene repertoire of eukaryotes is largely unresolved. Here, through the enrichment of hydrothermal vent microorganisms, we recovered two circularized genomes of \u003cjats:italic\u003eHeimdallarchaeum\u003c/jats:italic\u003e species that belong to an Asgard archaea clade phylogenetically closest to eukaryotes. These genomes reveal diverse mobile elements, including an integrative viral genome that bidirectionally replicates in a circular form and aloposons, transposons that encode the 5,000 amino acid-sized proteins \u003cjats:italic\u003eOtus\u003c/jats:italic\u003e and \u003cjats:italic\u003eEphialtes\u003c/jats:italic\u003e. Heimdallaechaeal mobile elements have garnered various genes from bacteria and bacteriophages, likely playing a role in shuffling functions across domains. The number of archaea- and bacteria-related genes follow strikingly different scaling laws in Asgard archaea, exhibiting a genome size-dependent ratio and a functional division resembling the bacteria- and archaea-derived gene repertoire across eukaryotes. Bacterial gene import has thus likely been a continuous process unaltered by eukaryogenesis and scaled up through genome expansion. Our data further highlight the importance of viewing eukaryogenesis in a pan-Asgard context, which led to the proposal of a conceptual framework, that is, the Heimdall nucleation–decentralized innovation–hierarchical import model that accounts for the emergence of eukaryotic complexity.\u003c/jats:p\u003e","long_citation_html":"Wu et al. (2022). Unique mobile elements and scalable gene flow at the prokaryote–eukaryote boundary revealed by circularized Asgard archaea genomes. \n\u003ci\u003eNature Microbiology\u003c/i\u003e.\n\u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-01039-y\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDOI: 10.1038/s41564-021-01039-y\u003c/a\u003e\n","created_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.782Z","updated_at":"2026-04-21T12:26:37.721Z","authors":[{"id":18105,"given":"Fabai","family":"Wu","created_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.797Z","updated_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.797Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/18105.json"},{"id":186,"given":"Daan R.","family":"Speth","created_at":"2019-04-15T18:45:44.887Z","updated_at":"2019-04-15T18:45:44.887Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/186.json"},{"id":18106,"given":"Alon","family":"Philosof","created_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.849Z","updated_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.849Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/18106.json"},{"id":18107,"given":"Antoine","family":"Crémière","created_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.863Z","updated_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.863Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/18107.json"},{"id":18108,"given":"Aditi","family":"Narayanan","created_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.876Z","updated_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.876Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/18108.json"},{"id":18109,"given":"Roman A.","family":"Barco","created_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.888Z","updated_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.888Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/18109.json"},{"id":15691,"given":"Stephanie A.","family":"Connon","created_at":"2025-04-10T14:55:22.840Z","updated_at":"2025-04-10T14:55:22.840Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/15691.json"},{"id":5641,"given":"Jan P.","family":"Amend","created_at":"2019-04-15T19:29:37.943Z","updated_at":"2019-04-15T19:29:37.943Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/5641.json"},{"id":18110,"given":"Igor A.","family":"Antoshechkin","created_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.918Z","updated_at":"2026-02-05T08:52:27.918Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/18110.json"},{"id":16172,"given":"Victoria J.","family":"Orphan","created_at":"2025-06-20T22:00:21.254Z","updated_at":"2025-06-20T22:00:21.254Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/16172.json"}],"names":[{"id":41483,"name":"Heimdallarchaeia","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/names/41483.json","uri":"https://seqco.de/i:41483"},{"id":44775,"name":"Heimdallarchaeales","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/names/44775.json","uri":"https://seqco.de/i:44775"},{"id":44776,"name":"Heimdallarchaeaceae","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/names/44776.json","uri":"https://seqco.de/i:44776"},{"id":44828,"name":"Heimdallarchaeum","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/names/44828.json","uri":"https://seqco.de/i:44828"},{"id":44831,"name":"Harpocratesius repetitus","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/names/44831.json","uri":"https://seqco.de/i:44831"},{"id":56328,"name":"Ymjarchaeum","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/names/56328.json","uri":"https://seqco.de/i:56328"}],"subjects":[]}