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Epigenetic gatekeeping enables genome-scale horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic cells

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By Ryota Aoki, Hidenori Nishihara, Takuya Sakamoto, Yuko Sato, Tae Kuramoto, Tomoko Matsunaga, Daniel Slane, Daiki Nagaoka, Daiki Maejima, Kotaro Ishii, Colin Anthony, Sumire Ishiyama, Shoichi Kato, Yayoi INUI, Naoki Wada, Yuko Mogi, Yamato Yoshida, Motomichi Matsuzaki, Takamasa Suzuki, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Yasuyuki Ohkawa, Tomokatsu Ikawa, Ryan Lister, Shinichiro Maruyama, Hiroshi Kimura, Sachihiro Matsunaga, Makiha Fukuda, Ayami Uehara, Yuki Kawanishi, Shunnosuke Mori, Mayumi Hirakawa, Hengbin Gao, Yuki Minoura, Yumiko Suto
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Abstract Horizontal gene transfer drives rapid evolutionary innovation, yet well-substantiated cases are largely confined to prokaryotes. Eukaryote-to-eukaryote transfer remains exceptionally rare, and direct genome-scale demonstrations are absent. Here, inspired by endosymbiotic genome acquisition, we show that mammalian cells can initiate genome-scale horizontal gene transfer through phagocytic uptake of intact algal cells, albeit at a much lower frequency than cell fusion.
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