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Comparative Evolution of Mediator
other 30 identified human MED subunits have detectable counterparts in the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, indicating that none is specific to metazoans. Indeed, animal/fungal subunits are also conserved in plants, green and red                    algae, entamoebids, oomycetes, diatoms, apicomplexans, ciliates and the ‘deep-branching’ protists Trichomonas vaginalis and Giardia lamblia. Surprisingly, although lacking CTD heptads, T. vaginalis displays 44 MED subunit homologs, including several CycC, Med12 and Med13 paralogs. Such observations have allowed the identification                    of a conserved 17-subunit framework around which peripheral subunits may be assembled, and support a very ancient eukaryotic                     origin for a large, four-module MED. 18515835

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