image: Fluorescently labeled mitochondria indicate the depth of oxygen diffusion in a multicellular yeast cluster.
Credit: Taken by Whitney Wong and modified by Anthony Burnetti from Wong W et al., 2025, PLOS Biology, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Muscle oxygen-binding proteins circumvent anatomical limits to enhance oxygen diffusion in multicellular organisms
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Article title: Oxygen-binding proteins aid oxygen diffusion to enhance fitness of a yeast model of multicellularity
Author countries: United States
Funding: W.C.R. acknowledges support from the NIH (grant no. 5R35GM138030) and NSF (CAREER Grant no. 1845363), A.J.B. acknowledges support from the Human Frontiers Science Program grant (RGY0080/2020), W.W. and W.C.R acknowledges support from the NSF Division of Environmental Biology (grant no. DEB-1845363), and P.J.Y. acknowledges support from the NIH (grant no. 1R35GM138354). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS Biology
Method of Research
Experimental study
Subject of Research
Cells
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Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.