Cell Fate: What's Evolution Got to Do With It?

IF 2.5 3区 工程技术 Q2 BIOLOGY Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2023-12-29 eCollection Date: 2023-12-01 DOI:10.59249/FBHI3484
Grant Ramsey, Pierre M Durand
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Theoretical frameworks concerning cell fate typically center on proximate causes to explain how cells know what type they are meant to become. While major advances in cell fate theory have been achieved by these mechanism-focused frameworks, there are some aspects of cell decision-making that require an evolutionary interpretation. While mechanistic biologists sometimes turn to evolutionary theory to gain insights about cell fate (cancer is a good example), it is not entirely clear in cell fate theory what insights evolutionary theory can add, and why in some cases it is required for understanding cell fate. In this perspective we draw on our work on cellular mortality to illustrate how evolutionary theory provides an explanation for death being selected as one of the potential cell fates. Using our hypothesis for why some microbes in a community choose death as their fate, we suggest that some insights in cell fate theory are inaccessible to a theoretical framework that focuses solely on proximate causes.

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细胞命运:进化与此有关吗?
有关细胞命运的理论框架通常以近因为中心,来解释细胞如何知道自己应该成为什么类型的细胞。虽然这些以机制为中心的框架在细胞命运理论方面取得了重大进展,但细胞决策的某些方面还需要进化论的解释。虽然机理生物学家有时会求助于进化理论来获得关于细胞命运的见解(癌症就是一个很好的例子),但在细胞命运理论中,进化理论究竟能带来哪些新的见解,以及为什么在某些情况下需要进化理论来理解细胞命运,这一点并不完全清楚。在这一视角中,我们借鉴了我们在细胞死亡方面的研究成果,来说明进化论是如何为死亡被选为潜在细胞命运之一提供解释的。通过我们对群落中一些微生物为何选择死亡作为其命运的假设,我们提出,细胞命运理论中的一些见解是只关注近因的理论框架所无法获得的。
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Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
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