Length-dependent translation initiation benefits the functional proteome of human cells
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Tong Wang, Gong Zhang et al.
Length-dependent translation initiation benefi ts the functional proteome of human cells
Length-dependent translation initiation benefitsthe functional proteome of human cells†
Cite this: Mol. BioSyst., 2015,
Jieming Guo,‡ab Xinlei Lian,‡a Jiayong Zhong,a Tong Wang*a and Gong Zhang*a
We previously found that shorter mRNAs are preferably translated in various eukaryotic cells. However,
the theoretical basis of this phenomenon is unclear. We hypothesize that shorter mRNA length
correlates to the decreased translational error rate to reduce the energy consumption on defective
protein degradation. In this study, we established a computational model to explain the length-
dependent translation initiation efficiency. We provided mathematical evidence that this translational
preference, rather than the protein degradation, is a major factor to shape the genome-wide length-
dependent protein abundance. As deducted, we simulated that shorter mRNA length is a determinant of
Received 4th August 2014,
initiation circularization time. Furthermore, our model unveiled that preferentially translating shorter
Accepted 8th October 2014
mRNAs benefits the energy efficiency on the proteome functionality. We proposed that cancer cells
DOI: 10.1039/c4mb00462k
tend to hijack this evolutionary mechanism by counteracting the higher translational error rate. In
conclusion, our model provides insights into the nature of the global length-dependent translational
control and its biological significance.
known that the average protein length in eukaryotes significantlyexceeds prokaryotes in all of the functional classes.9,10
In eukaryotes, translation initiation is a rate-limiting process
These findings led to an important question in the field
for protein synthesis that serves as a primary determinant of
regarding why human cells need this length-dependent translation
protein productivity1–3 (reviewed in ref. 4 and 5). Although this
initiation. According to the following rationale, we hypothesize that
complex process involves multiple factors, numerous evidence
the translational preference of shorter mRNAs will decrease the
obtained from yeast and plant cells has revealed the connection
error rate of protein synthesis, thus reducing the energy demand,
between mRNA/coding sequence (CDS) length and translation
and is beneficial to a functional proteome of human cells.
initiation, namely, mRNAs encoding larger proteins tend to be
First, maintaining a functional proteome is a requirement
less translated.2,6,7 While in human normal and cancer cells,
for a living cell in the steady-state (reviewed in ref. 11). As the
we confirmed this length-dependent translation initiation in a
counterpart, the ‘‘wrong'' proteome, including misfolded,
genome-wide scale; interestingly, we reported that cancer cells
unfolded and/or incorrectly translated proteins, should be
are more preferentially translating shorter mRNAs.8 In a recent
maximally avoided in general. Equally important is that remov-
report, Shah et al. simulated the translation initiation in yeasts,
ing these proteins from the cell is an energy-consuming task,
proposing that ribosome availability is the primary rate-
primarily taken by the ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS),
limiting factor of initiation; in addition, this model successfully
autophagy, and exocytosis. Otherwise, unfolded protein
predicted that the initiation probability is negatively correlated
responses (UPRs) are being initiated and amplified.
to the gene length in yeasts (R = 0.56).3 But, it is seemingly
Concerning this ‘‘wrong'' proteome formation, the error that
contradictory that larger proteins are often considered to have
occurred during translation is one of the most important
more functions and favoured per evolution.9,10 For example, it is
mechanisms; however, it is often overlooked or underestimatedwhen modelling the translation process. Specifically, ribosomepremature drop-off, frameshift and amino acid misincorpora-
tion can take place at the probability of 103 to 104 in
Institute of Life and Health Engineering, Key Laboratory of Functional ProteinResearch of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Jinan University,
eukaryotic cells.12,13 Kinetic competition is one of the major
Guangzhou 510632, China. E-mail: [email protected],
causes of these errors (reviewed in ref. 14). Therefore, the
[email protected]; Tel: +86-20-85225960, +86-20-85224031
cellular physiological condition changes, including transla-
b Guangdong Experimental High School, Guangzhou, China
tional demand, tRNA availability, and intracellular diffusion,
† Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Fig. S1–S3. See DOI:
can significantly alter the error rate.15 As to cancer cells, they
‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
have remarkably higher tRNA concentrations than normal
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cells,16–18 with an approximately 6-fold increase of errors
mouse ESCs and HeLa cells, the mRNA length minimally corre-
during protein synthesis.19 The cell has to invest energy to
lates to the mRNA half-life (R o 0.01, Fig. S2, ESI†), suggesting
clear these defective proteins with aberrant sequences or struc-
that the mRNA degradation rate is not a major contributor to
tures that mitigate the fitness.20–23 To avoid this energy waste,
the overall protein abundance. Our results emphasized that
cells should have evolved a mechanism to balance the protein
the mRNA length is a key factor of protein abundance that
production quantity and quality.
is associated with translational initiation. This reciprocally
To address our hypothesis, we proposed a model explaining
confirmed that the length-dependent TR is a major determinant
the length-dependent translation initiation efficiency that
to shape the proteome abundance.
reflected the major determinants for shaping the length-
It is notable that the same trend applies to the yeast (Fig. S3,
dependent proteome. This model elucidated the contribution
ESI†), suggesting that the translational preference towards
of gene length to a functional proteome in terms of circulation
smaller proteins may benefit organisms in a conserved way,
efficiency in translation initiation and the translational error
thus being maintained along with evolution.
rate. We computationally found the strongly negative correla-tion between the protein synthesis and the mRNA length that
The mRNA circularization is the determinant process of length-
leads to optimized energy consumption.
dependent translation initiation
The cap-dependent translation initiation in eukaryotic cellscomprises the following major steps: (a) 43S pre-initiation
complex formation (including 40S ribosome subunit, eIF2ternary complex, eIF3, eIF5); (b) cap-binding by the eIF4F
Length-dependent translation is the major determinant of
complex and poly-A binding by PABP; (c) mRNA circularization;
length-dependent protein abundance
(d) attachment of the 43S complex to mRNA and scanning of
With human normal bronchial epithelial cells (HBE), lung
the initiation codon; and (e) recruitment of the 60S ribosome
cancer A549 and H1299 cells, and human colon cancer Caco-
subunit (Fig. 2A and reviewed in ref. 29). In steady-state cells,
2 cells, we previously reported the direct analysis on the
the concentration of all molecules is constant. Therefore, all of
translation initiation efficiency, represented by the translation
the binding kinetics are constant in a given environment (steps
ratio (TR), defined as the abundance ratio of translating mRNA
(a), (b), (d) and (e)). The only length-dependent step is the
to mRNA for a certain gene.8,24 We further reported the
mRNA circularization (step (c)).
translatome and transcriptome profiles of human liver cancer
It is known that mRNA molecules can be modelled as worm-like
cell lines, such as Hep3B cells.25
chain (WLC) with the persistence length of 0.79 nm.30 The average
We then examined whether the length-dependence of trans-
distance between the 50-cap and the 30-tail can be described as
lation initiation efficiency shapes the proteome. In human
2PL, where P is the persistence length and L is the length
genome, mRNA length significantly and positively correlates
of the mRNA (Fig. 2B). The circularization is a passive diffusion
to the CDS length (Fig. S1, ESI†), suggesting that longer mRNAs
process with no energy input. Therefore, it follows the Brownian
in general encode larger proteins. In human cells originated
motion model.15,31 The tail of a longer mRNA needs more time to
from various tissues, mRNA abundance minimally correlates to
diffuse to the cap and thus is less efficient in the initiation.
the length with Pearson R values ranging from 0.10 to 0.30
We then simulated the diffusion of the tail complex to the cap
(Fig. 1A). The lower TR for longer mRNAs leads to the more
complex. The average length of the polyA tail is 250 adenosines,32
significant negative correlation of the RNC–mRNA and the
and each PABP protein binds to 27 adenosines on average.33
mRNA length with remarkable greater R values (Fig. 1B). We
Therefore, each tail complex consists of 9 PABPs and 250 adeno-
previously showed that the RNC–mRNA strongly correlates to
sines, with the molecular weight of 723 kDa. As the experimentally
proteins in their abundance.8 In addition, it is known that the
measured average density of protein is 1.37 g cm3,34,35 the molar
protein synthesis is the major determinant of the protein
volume of the tail complex can be calculated to be 5.13
abundance.26 Hence, we further posit a significant negative
105 cm2 mol1, and the radius is approximately 5.9 nm. The cap
correlation between the protein abundance and the mRNA
complex consists of eIF4A, eIF4B, eIF4E and eIF4G, with the total
length. This was confirmed by analyzing the label-free mass
molecular weight of 315.4 kDa, and the radius is approximately
spectrometry data at least in cervical cancer HeLa cells,27 with
4.5 nm. The diffusion coefficient can be calculated as:
R = 0.48 (Fig. 1C); in addition, we found that the protein
degradation rate k
deg has minor contribution to the protein
abundance (R = 0.20, Fig. 1D). This result conformed to aspecific study with mouse embryonic stem cells (ECSs), proposing
where kB is the Boltzmann constant, T is the temperature, rp is the
that the protein degradation rate plays a minor role in shaping
radius of the particle and Z is the viscosity. We used the experi-
the proteome abundance, although the protein abundance is
mentally measured viscosity of Z = 0.88 103 Pa s in HeLa cells.36
determined by both the synthesis rate and the degradation rate.26
Therefore, the diffusion coefficients of the tail complex and the
We further examined the length dependency of the mRNA
cap complex are 4.37 1011 m2 s1 and 1.72 1010 m2 s1,
degradation rate, which also serves as a factor that regulates
respectively, which are comparable to the other protein–RNA
protein production efficiency.28 In the yeast, Arabidopsis thaliana,
complexes, such as the ternary complex of tRNA.37 The Brownian
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Translation initiation efficiency is a primary determinant of the length-dependent proteome abundance. (A) mRNA abundance versus mRNA
length correlation in human HBE, Hep3B and HeLa cells. (B) RNC–mRNA abundance versus mRNA length correlations. (C) Protein abundance versusmRNA length correlation in HeLa cells. (D) Protein degradation rate versus mRNA length correlation in HeLa cells.
motion simulation was performed by using these parameters
average to loop, comparable to the initiation probability of long
and at the time interval of 0.04 ms. Circularization was detected
genes in yeasts (233 seconds).3 After mRNA circularization, step
when the center of the tail complex and the cap complex are no
(d) and step (e) happen with the rate constant k 4 3 min1 and
larger than the sum of their radii.
k 4 1 min1 in the rabbit reticulocyte in vitro translation
The simulation result showed that the frequency of mRNA
system, respectively,38 comparable to k1 = 0.076 s1 and k2 =
circularization decreases almost exponentially against mRNA
0.019 s1 measured in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.39 Therefore, for
length within the range of 300–10 000 nt (Fig. 2C). The prob-
long mRNAs, the rate-limiting step is the circularization.
ability of a successful collision (forming the stable mRNA loop
We also performed simulation assuming various viscosities
and ready to recruit 43S pre-initiation complex) has not been
(Fig. 2D). The results showed that higher diffusion coefficient
reported in the literature; yet we refer to the probability of
caused by lower viscosity facilitates the circularization for all
successful collision of the ternary complex to deliver amino
mRNAs. Thus, with this model, we explained the mechanism of
acids on the ribosome to be 1.96%.15 Therefore, longer mRNAs
the translational preference of smaller mRNAs in terms of
need considerably extended time to form the loop for trans-
circularization, which further orchestrates the protein abun-
lation. For example, a 7000 nt mRNA needs 387 seconds on
dance also in a length-dependent manner.
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Model and simulation of the mRNA circularization during the translation initiation. (A) Major steps of translation initiation. (B) Model of mRNA and
the initial setting of the simulation. Cap complex and the tail complex are linked by mRNA modelled as worm-like chain (WLC). (C) Simulated collisionfrequency of the cap complex and the tail complex versus the mRNA length. (D) Successful circularization time versus mRNA length under differentviscosities (Z).
Energy consumption and functionality of a proteome is
approximately 96.5% of all of the human proteins according to
balanced by the translational preference of shorter mRNAs
the NCBI RefSeq database. We then investigated proteins
In steady-state eukaryotic cells, the size of most proteins distri-
within this range and defined a parameter, amount ratio
bute between 100 and 3000 amino acids, which consists of
(AR), to describe the ratio between the synthesis quantity of
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the largest and the smallest protein categories: AR = A100/A3000,
We thus can calculate the ratio between the total function
where An means the synthesis quantity of the proteins with
score of the proteome and the energy consumption:
length n. The synthesis amount of the proteins between 100
and 3000 amino acids was logarithmically interpolated.
Incorporation of each amino acid into the growing nascent
polypeptide chain costs one GTP (one unit of energy). There-
fore, the total energy needed for synthesizing the proteins with
A higher r value represents higher energy efficiency for a
proteome functionality that benefits the organism.
We calculated r values under f p L0, L1/3 and L2/3, respec-
tively (Fig. 3A). In all cases, the r values increase with the AR,
Errors occur during the synthesis of proteins, including
showing that higher translation efficiency of smaller proteins
the misincorporation, frameshift, premature drop-off and
provides higher energy efficiency to gain the proteome func-
misfolding. The probability of these errors is proportional
tionality (Fig. 3A). We calculated the AR in steady-state HeLa
to the protein length.12,15,40 We sum all of these prob-
cells from the actual proteome data27 to be 206.5 (marked in
abilities as the error probability per amino acid e. Therefore,
Fig. 3A), approaching the plateau. Consistently, an AR that is
the total error probability to synthesize proteins with length
higher than 206.5 will not remarkably affect the changing rate
of r, with the dr/dAR value less than 106 in HeLa cells (Fig. 3B).
Therefore, higher AR can be beneficial within certain dynamic
And the amount of functional (error-free) proteins with
Upregulation of the translational preference of small proteins
is potentially beneficial for cancer cells
M = Ai(1 Perr) = Ai(1 e)Li
Due to the higher tRNA concentration, the translation elonga-tion speed is remarkably higher in cancer cells.17 This leads to
The misfolded or damaged proteins have to be actively
higher error rates especially on folding, increasing the e in the
removed by UPS and/or other protein quality control mechan-
model described above. We therefore calculated the curves
isms, which are all energy-consuming bioprocesses. We here
of AR versus r at increasing e (Fig. 3). In all cases of f p L0,
focused on UPS to computationally elucidate and exemplify
L1/3 and L2/3, the r value decreases with the increase in the error
such energy consumption. ATP serves as the energy source of
rate, given the same AR. An increase in AR can increase the
UPS-mediated protein degradation, and energy consumption in
r value and thus counteracts the negative effect of larger e,
ATP units is approximately 1/3 of the protein length in the
which is potentially beneficial to the cancer cells (Fig. 3C). With
unfolding phase and equal to the protein length in the degra-
the active translation, cancer cells can generate enough amount
dation phase.23 On average, the number of ATPs used during
of functional large proteins even at higher AR.
the degradation is slightly more than the protein length.23Thus, the energy used for degradation by UPS can be approxi-mately described as:
Edeg,i = Li AiPerr = Li Ai[1 (1 e)Li]
We here simulated that shorter mRNA length considerablydeceases circularization time, and reduces the translational
A well-folded protein will have functional sites to interact
error dependent energy consumption. We believe the two
with other molecules to carry out bioprocesses. We define a
mechanisms should be the outcome of evolution, determining
‘‘function score'', f, to quantitatively reflect the functions of a
the length-dependent translation initiation in steady-state
protein molecule. The higher f a protein has, the more it can be
human cells. Equally important is that they are helpful to
involved in bioprocesses. Protein length may correlate to f with
understand why human cancer cells often amplify such a
one or more of the following types: (a) f is irrelevant to the
length-dependent preference,8 namely, cancer cells tend to
length, i.e. f p L0, which corresponds to those proteins that do
hijack this evolutionary benefit to counteract the energy
not interact with any other proteins; (b) f p volume p L1/3. The
demand caused by their high translation error rates.
greater volumes of such proteins could accommodate more
There are very few models published to explain the global
structural domains with substrate binding pockets for catalysis
length-dependent feature of translation. Our findings further
and regulation, which facilitate the domain cooperation;41,42
demonstrated that the rate-limiting step of circularization is at
and (c) f p area p L2/3. The functionality of these proteins
least one of the determinants of such a bioprocess in human
relies on the surface interaction with other proteins.43 Regard-
cells. For certain, we should not overlook numerous gene-
less of the type, the total function score of the proteins with
specific studies in the field, implicating other regulatory
length Li can be calculated as:
mechanisms, such as the antisense-RNA (e.g. microRNA),sequence/structure-specific 3'-UTR binding proteins, upstream
Fi = Mi fi = Ai(1 e)Lifi
microORFs, and the specific sequence around the start codon
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AR versus r values at different error rates (0.1–0.8%). (A) The calculation was performed assuming f = L0, L1/3 and L2/3, respectively. (B) Derivatives
of the curves calculated in (A). (C) Schematic illustration of the benefit of elevating translational preference in cancer cells. In cancer cells, the error rate ishigher, therefore the r value decreases if the AR remains constant (route a). Elevating AR will increase the r value (route b), compensating for the highererror rate.
and upstream regions44,45 (reviewed in ref. 46–48). To be noted,
has minor contributions to the mRNA–protein abundance
we previously found that the longer mRNA produces less
correlation in yeast, mouse and human cells (0.2%, o10% and
molecules of proteins before it is degraded.28 Considering
o5%, respectively).26,52 Therefore, the mRNA stability was not
the mRNA stability, the attached ribosomes protect mRNAs
included in our model.
from endonucleic degradation in prokaryotes that is also
Indeed, energy efficiency is a selective force during the
termed as the ribosome shielding effect.49 While in eukaryotes,
evolution. Recent evolutionary studies on genetic codes have
mRNAs are largely degraded via decapping and exonucleic
considered the translational fidelity, i.e. the translation error
digestion.28,50 This feature allows longer genes in eukaryotes
caused by the misincorporation of amino acids and its conse-
than prokaryotes.28 Although previous studies suggested that
quent energy penalty.13,14,53,54 However, this type of error is of
inhibition on translation accelerates mRNA decay under stress
low probability, ca. 103 to 104 in different types of eukaryotic
conditions (reviewed in ref. 50), recent studies have shown that
cells (reviewed in ref. 13). In comparison, the misfolded newly-
the mRNA half-life correlates weakly to the ribosome density
synthesized proteins can be a problem that costs more energy:
and the number of ribosomes per mRNA (Spearman r = 0.36),
30% of the newly synthesized proteins are immediately
at least in yeasts and under physiological conditions. This
degraded due to their improper conformation (reviewed in
indicated that the ribosome density has a minor effect on
ref. 23). Since the chaperon-dependent folded proteins consist
mRNA stability under physiological conditions.51 Further studies
of only a lesser fraction of the proteome,55 the majority of
from other groups experimentally found that the mRNA stability
misfolding happens co-translationally under physiological
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conditions, which is highly relevant to the translation elonga-
cellular stiffness, in accordance with their less-organized cyto-
tion speed (reviewed in ref. 5). Furthermore, translational
skeleton. This has been suggested to accelerate nutrient uptake,
pausing is more important to the larger proteins, as the
facilitate cellular deformation and thus to increase the meta-
number of pausing sites increase with the protein length.22,40
static potential of cancer cells56,57 (reviewed in ref. 58). Second,
Therefore, these co-translationally misfolded proteins and
viscosity is one of the major determinants of diffusion.59 In
the subsequent clearance of these proteins are a primary source
the crowding cytoplasmic environment, increased cytoplasmic
of energy waste in protein synthesis; however, we would
viscosity leads to significantly decreased diffusion coefficients of
re-emphasize that it was overlooked in the previously reported
molecules, and the amplitude of such diffusion coefficient
length-dependent translation models. Our model successfully
decreases of large molecules is much higher than that of the
supported such an argument in terms of higher energy effi-
small molecules.60 The formation of the 43S pre-initiation
ciency by translating shorter mRNAs. We believe that the novel
complex is also inhibited at higher cellular viscosity,61 leading
and essential features of this energy model can be summarized
to inhibited translation initiation, while with less effects on
as: (1) we considered the errors during the protein synthesis
translation elongation.15 These facts implicate that higher
and (2) we assessed the benefit in the view of energy efficiency
viscosity severely extended the time needed for all steps in the
of maintaining a steady-state proteome.
translation initiation except mRNA circularization (Fig. 4A).
Our study suggested that the down-regulation of the cytoplasmic
Considering these effects, lower cytoplasmic viscosity amplifies
viscosity in cancer cells can considerably augment the translational
higher translational preference towards small proteins (Fig. 4B
preference of small proteins, which is energetically beneficial to
and C). In this regard, our study provided new insights and
cancer cells. To explain the mechanism of this phenomenon, we
system connections between cellular mechanics, length-dependent
propose that the viscosity difference between normal and cancer
system regulation of the whole translatome and malignant
cells should be an important determinant. First, it is known that
phenotypes of cancer, which may give hints to understand
cancer cells tend to have lower cytoplasmic viscosity to soften their
cancer cells from a new perspective.
Proposed explanation of the possible contribution of viscosity to augmented translational preference on smaller proteins in cancer cells.
(A) Definition of the time of major translation initiation steps. (B, C) The total time for initiation versus mRNA length. The situations at low (B) and high (C)viscosities are shown, respectively. The time needed for other steps except tc are totalized as T = tb + td + te, shown as the black dotted line. T isindependent of length, but dependent on viscosity per diffusion model. Therefore, the ratio of the total translation initiation time for large to smallproteins is greater in the scenario of low viscosity than that in high viscosity, resulting in augmented translational preference towards small proteins.
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En quoi la philosophie est-elle utile à la société ? Sert-elle à l'émancipation ? Guillermo Kozlowski (CFS asbl) Le rapport entre la philosophie et la société « À quoi ça sert ? » On se pose désormais très fréquemment la question à propos de toutes les pratiques humaines. Quel bénéfice en tire notre société ? On se demande à quoi sert l'art ? A quoi servent les mathématiques, le latin, la philosophie ou l'amour ? Un seul domaine échappe encore à la question: la technique. Il y a là un paradoxe. En effet, si on se demande ce qu'est une société déterminée, on pourrait répondre qu'elle est un point de vue sur le monde, une façon d'envisager les liens de parentalité, de percevoir certaines expériences artistiques, de pratiquer des langues, d'avoir une histoire. Il n'y a pas une société de base, une sorte de matière neutre à laquelle on pourrait ajouter « en option » un peu de science, un peu d'art ou de philosophie . Une sorte de caisson « IKEA » à améliorer de portes, tiroirs et autres accessoires . d'esthétiques diverses ; prix ou qualité variable. La science, l'art, la philo, ne sont pas des options « utiles», mais des éléments constitutifs d'une société. C'est en quelque sorte ce dont parlait le philosophe italien Antonio Gramsci, lorsqu'il affirmait que tout le monde possède une philosophie. Ainsi, le sens commun est une philosophie qui fournit des points de vue implicites sur la vie, la mort, la condition humaine, etc. Tous les êtres humains ont des réponses, plus ou moins partielles et implicites, aux questions existentielles. Des points de vue indispensables pour leur vie quotidienne et profondément inscrits dans chacun de nous. « Il faut détruire le préjugé fort répandu selon lequel la philosophie serait quelque chose de très difficile étant donné qu'elle est l'activité intellectuelle propre d'une catégorie déterminée de savants spécialistes ou de philosophes professionnels et faiseurs de systèmes. Il faut donc démontrer au préalable que tous les hommes sont « philosophes», en définissant les limites et les caractères de cette « philosophie spontanée» qui est celle de « tout le monde» autrement dit la philosophie qui est contenue 1) dans le langage même, lequel est un ensemble de notions et de concepts déterminés, et non pas seulement un ensemble de mots grammaticalement vides de contenu ; 2) dans le sens commun et le bon sens ; 3) dans la religion populaire, et donc également dans tout le système de croyances, de superstitions, d'opinions, de façons de voir et d'agir, qui se manifestent dans ce qu'on appelle généralement le folklore. »1 Par exemple, dans notre société, il est évident que l'amour-passion est vu comme un événement transcendant les deux individus qui l'incarnent, donnant du sens à la vie. C'est une façon de penser la question du sens. Un autre exemple, pendant trois siècles - c'est peut-être encore d'actualité - une partie de l'humanité pensait qu'il y avait une sorte de progrès immanent dans l'Histoire. Des philosophies extrêmement complexes comme celle de Hegel, Auguste Compte ou Teilhard de Chardin, en parlaient. Plus concrètement, notre société partageait ce point de vue de manière très générale, nombre de gens pensant que la vie de leurs enfants serait meilleure que la leur, et que celle de
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