Proteostatic tuning underpins the evolution of novel multicellular traits
K. Montrose, D. T. Lac, A. J. Burnetti, K. Tong, G. O. Bozdag, M. Hukkanen, W. C. Ratcliff, J. Saarikangas
The paper shows that downregulation of Hsp90 drives cellular elongation and multicellular adaptation in the MuLTEE experiment, revealing a proteostatic mechanism for macroscopic multicellularity evolution.
bioRxiv · May 31, 2023 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology