ReviewGenes2021
Role and Evolution of the Extracellular Matrix in the Acquisition of Complex Multicellularity in Eukaryotes: A Macroalgal Perspective.
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- Oligosaccharide elicitors in plant immunity: Molecular mechanisms and disease resistance strategies.Plant communications · 2025Review
- Mapping the transcriptional landscape of algal resistance to viral infection reveals a core expression program.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal distribution of the glycoprotein pherophorin II reveals stochastic geometry of the growing ECM ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Cell walls: a comparative view of the composition of cell surfaces of plants, algae, and microorganisms.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- Diatom heterotrophy on brown algal polysaccharides emerged through horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication, and neofunctionalization.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Coral high molecular weight carbohydrates support opportunistic microbes in bacterioplankton from an algae-dominated reef.mSystems · 2024Article
- Candidate genes involved in biosynthesis and degradation of the main extracellular matrix polysaccharides of brown algae and their probable evolutionary history.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Green Synthesis of CuO Nanoparticles from MacroalgaeNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Ethyl Acetate Extract ofCurrent issues in molecular biology · 2024Article
- Identification of differential gene expression related to reproduction in the sporophytes ofFrontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- The extracellular matrix of green algae.Plant physiology · 2023Review
- Carrageenan biosynthesis in red algae: A review.Cell surface (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Review
- Acquisition of new function through gene duplication in the metallocarboxypeptidase family.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Phospholipase D activation is required for 1-aminocyclopropane 1-carboxylic acid signaling during sexual reproduction in the marine red alga Neopyropia yezoensis (Rhodophyta).BMC plant biology · 2022Article
- The Cell Wall Polysaccharides Biosynthesis in Seaweeds: A Molecular Perspective.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
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Abstract
Multicellular eukaryotes are characterized by an expanded extracellular matrix (ECM) with a diversified composition. The ECM is involved in determining tissue texture, screening cells from the outside medium, development, and innate immunity, all of which are essential features in the biology of multicellular eukaryotes. This review addresses the origin and evolution of the ECM, with a focus on multicellular marine algae. We show that in these lineages the expansion of extracellular matrix played a major role in the acquisition of complex multicellularity through its capacity to connect, position, shield, and defend the cells. Multiple innovations were necessary during these evolutionary processes, leading to striking convergences in the structures and functions of the ECMs of algae, animals, and plants.
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