{"id":209212,"date":"2025-03-20T00:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-an-organelle-evolves-in-symbiosis-with-a-cell-intermediate-stage-sheds-light-on-the-assimilation-process"},"modified":"2025-03-20T00:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:12:18","slug":"how-an-organelle-evolves-in-symbiosis-with-a-cell-intermediate-stage-sheds-light-on-the-assimilation-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-an-organelle-evolves-in-symbiosis-with-a-cell-intermediate-stage-sheds-light-on-the-assimilation-process","title":{"rendered":"How an organelle evolves in symbiosis with a cell: Intermediate stage sheds light on the assimilation process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-an-organelle-evolves-in-symbiosis-with-a-cell-intermediate-stage-sheds-light-on-the-assimilation-process.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their independence in the course of evolution. A team of biologists headed by Professor Dr. Eva Nowack at Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU) are examining the way in which this assimilation process occurs and how quickly. They now describe their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adp8518\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> about an intermediate stage in this process in <i>Science Advances.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Eukaryotic cells contain a large number of functional sub-units, so-called organelles. They perform important functions within the cell. Some organelles were independent, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/single-celled+organisms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">single-celled organisms<\/a> at some point in the past. They were then taken up by a cell and have evolved over time in symbiosis with the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/host+cell\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">host cell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These \u201cendosymbionts\u201d lost their ability to function autonomously in the process. One well-known example of this type of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/organelle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organelle<\/a> is the mitochondrion, which evolved from a bacterium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their independence in the course of evolution. A team of biologists headed by Professor Dr. Eva Nowack at Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU) are examining the way in which this assimilation process occurs and how quickly. They now describe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}