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The origin of membrane bioenergeticsNick Lane
Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Cell 151:1406-16. 2012..Our hypothesis accounts for the Na(+)/H(+) promiscuity of bioenergetic proteins, as well as the deep divergence between bacteria and archaea...
The problem with mixing mitochondriaNick Lane
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK Electronic address
Cell 151:246-8. 2012..show that heteroplasmy has surprising genetic and behavioral effects in mice, even when each haplotype alone produces a normal phenotype. This interference is bioenergetic and may have contributed to the evolution of sexes...
The energetics of genome complexityNick Lane
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London W1E 6BT, UK
Nature 467:929-34. 2010..This vast leap in genomic capacity was strictly dependent on mitochondrial power, and prerequisite to eukaryote complexity: the key innovation en route to multicellular life...
Energetics and genetics across the prokaryote-eukaryote divideNick Lane
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
Biol Direct 6:35. 2011..Here I argue that the eukaryotic cell originated in a unique prokaryotic endosymbiosis, a singular event that transformed the selection pressures acting on both host and endosymbiont...
Mitonuclear match: optimizing fitness and fertility over generations drives ageing within generationsNick Lane
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
Bioessays 33:860-9. 2011..This coherent view of eukaryotic energetics offers striking insights into infertility and age-related diseases...
A unifying view of ageing and disease: the double-agent theoryNick Lane
Department of Surgery, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Pond Street, NW3 2QG London, UK
J Theor Biol 225:531-40. 2003..Gene therapies for age-related diseases are unlikely to succeed unless oxidative stress can be controlled physiologically, thereby altering the activity and function of potentially hundreds of genes...
Selection for mitonuclear co-adaptation could favour the evolution of two sexesZena Hadjivasiliou
CoMPLEX, University College London, Gower Street, London W1E 6BT, UK
Proc Biol Sci 279:1865-72. 2012..We conclude that, under a wide range of conditions, selection for mitonuclear co-adaptation favours the evolution of two distinct mating types or sexes in sexual species...
How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of lifeNick Lane
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
Bioessays 32:271-80. 2010..Synthesis of ATP by chemiosmosis today involves generation of an ion gradient by means of vectorial electron transfer from a donor to an acceptor. We argue that the first donor was hydrogen and the first acceptor CO2...
