Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Here's a new exciting paper by my dear protistologist colleagues in Prague! This builds upon a project I was working on in my PhD. We explored a group of #protists that have, uniquely among #eukaryotes, completely lost their mitochondria, as well as their relatives with reduced mitochondria.
What purpose do #ReducedMitochondria serve? https://phys.org/news/2022-11-purpose-mitochondria.html
Reduced #mitochondria provide an essential function for the cytosolic #methionine cycle: Justyna Zítek et al. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01673-6
What purpose do reduced mitochondria serve?
A few years ago, scientists discovered a curious case of protozoa (oxymonads) that do not have mitochondria. Since then, the research group of Associate Professor Hampl from the Faculty of Science of Charles University and the BIOCEV research center has been asking how the unique loss of mitochondria occurred.