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Lateral transfer of tetrahymanol-synthesizing genes has allowed multiple diverse eukaryote lineages to independently adapt to environments without oxygen

Overview of attention for article published in Biology Direct, February 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

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Title
Lateral transfer of tetrahymanol-synthesizing genes has allowed multiple diverse eukaryote lineages to independently adapt to environments without oxygen
Published in
Biology Direct, February 2012
DOI 10.1186/1745-6150-7-5
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Authors

Kiyotaka Takishita, Yoshito Chikaraishi, Michelle M Leger, Eunsoo Kim, Akinori Yabuki, Naohiko Ohkouchi, Andrew J Roger

Abstract

Sterols are key components of eukaryotic cellular membranes that are synthesized by multi-enzyme pathways that require molecular oxygen. Because prokaryotes fundamentally lack sterols, it is unclear how the vast diversity of bacterivorous eukaryotes that inhabit hypoxic environments obtain, or synthesize, sterols. Here we show that tetrahymanol, a triterpenoid that does not require molecular oxygen for its biosynthesis, likely functions as a surrogate of sterol in eukaryotes inhabiting oxygen-poor environments. Genes encoding the tetrahymanol synthesizing enzyme squalene-tetrahymanol cyclase were found from several phylogenetically diverged eukaryotes that live in oxygen-poor environments and appear to have been laterally transferred among such eukaryotes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Czechia 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 60 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 30%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 19%
Student > Master 8 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 7 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 33%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 14 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 14%
Environmental Science 2 3%
Chemistry 2 3%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 10 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 September 2021.
All research outputs
#1,980,919
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Biology Direct
#68
of 537 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,177
of 253,530 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biology Direct
#3
of 9 outputs
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