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"Although vaults have been observed in many eukaryotic species, a few species do not appear to have the ribonucleoprotein. These include: Arabidopsis thaliana
by owl57 5y ago
"Although vaults have been observed in many eukaryotic species, a few species do not appear to have the ribonucleoprotein. These include:
Arabidopsis thaliana
Caenorhabditis elegans
Drosophila melanogaster
Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Wow. As if some hacker is playing against the researchers, removing the backdoor from all the most studied systems.
- derefr 5y agoWhat do those organisms have in common that made them good model organisms that researchers favoured studying? Perhaps one of those same properties (fast reproductive rate, maybe?) requires ditching the vault complex.
- inciampati 5y agoIt's possible, although the cited articles in that section are from 1990 and 1991. (Another one links to a clone of the same wikipedia article in pfam, which is a comically circular reference.) We hadn't sequenced much then, so the absence of these organelles was probably established by microscopy in these model organisms.
- amelius 5y ago> Wow. As if some hacker is playing against the researchers, removing the backdoor from all the most studied systems. Or perhaps it simply explains why it took so long to find them.