Discovery of EMRE in fungi resolves the true evolutionary history of the mitochondrial calciumuniporter
A. A. Pittis, V. Goh, A. Cebrian-Serrano, J. Wettmarhausen, F. Perocchi, T. Gabaldon
The paper identifies EMRE in fungi, resolving the evolutionary paradox of MCU homologs in fungi lacking other uniporter components by showing EMRE and 'animal-like' MICU1 and MCU form a functional complex in chytrid fungi.
bioRxiv · Mar 24, 2020Evolutionary Biology