Evolution of a New Chlorophyll Metabolic Pathway Driven by the Dynamic Changes in Enzyme Promiscuous Activity

Characterization of BciB: A Ferredoxin-Dependent 8-Vinyl-Protochlorophyllide Reductase from the Green Sulfur Bacterium Chloroherpeton thalassium

(2013) Allison H. Saunders et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant chemical defense: at what cost?

(2013) Elizabeth H. Neilson et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Making new molecules – evolution of pathways for novel metabolites in plants

(2012) Daniel J Kliebenstein et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Conversion of chlorophyllbto chlorophyllaprecedes magnesium dechelation for protection against necrosis in Arabidopsis

(2012) Yousuke Shimoda et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

One Divinyl Reductase Reduces the 8-Vinyl Groups in Various Intermediates of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis in a Given Higher Plant Species, But the Isozyme Differs between Species

(2012) P. Wang et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Network Context and Selection in the Evolution to Enzyme Specificity

(2012) H. Nam et al.   SCIENCE

Chlorophyll cycle regulates the construction and destruction of the light-harvesting complexes

(2011) Ryouichi Tanaka et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Multiple Types of 8-Vinyl Reductases for (Bacterio)Chlorophyll Biosynthesis Occur in Many Green Sulfur Bacteria

(2011) Z. Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Toward a Systems Biology Perspective on Enzyme Evolution

(2011) Shelley D. Copley   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Divergence and Convergence in Enzyme Evolution

(2011) Michael Y. Galperin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cyanobacterial Lactate Oxidases Serve as Essential Partners in N2Fixation and Evolved into Photorespiratory Glycolate Oxidases in Plants

(2011) Claudia Hackenberg et al.   PLANT CELL

Identification of the 7-Hydroxymethyl ChlorophyllaReductase of the Chlorophyll Cycle inArabidopsis

(2011) Miki Meguro et al.   PLANT CELL

Expanding the solar spectrum used by photosynthesis

(2011) Min Chen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Enzyme Promiscuity: A Mechanistic and Evolutionary Perspective

(2010) Olga Khersonsky and Dan S. Tawfik   Annual Review of Biochemistry

After the primary endosymbiosis: an update on the chromalveolate hypothesis and the origins of algae with Chl c

(2010) Beverley R. Green   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Metabolic Diversification of Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloid Biosynthesis Through the Introduction of a Branch Pathway in Eschscholzia californica

(2010) Tomoya Takemura et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Advancing Our Understanding and Capacity to Engineer Nature's CO2-Sequestering Enzyme, Rubisco

(2010) S. M. Whitney et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

An efficient, multiply promiscuous hydrolase in the alkaline phosphatase superfamily

(2010) B. van Loo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identification of a gene essential for protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase activity in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803

(2010) K. Kato et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of an antifreeze protein by neofunctionalization under escape from adaptive conflict

(2010) C. Deng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Origin and evolution of metabolic pathways

(2009) Renato Fani et al.   Physics of Life Reviews

Evolution of rosmarinic acid biosynthesis

(2009) Maike Petersen et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Identification of a Novel Vinyl Reductase Gene Essential for the Biosynthesis of Monovinyl Chlorophyll inSynechocystissp. PCC6803

(2008) Hisashi Ito et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

slr1923 of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 Is Essential for Conversion of 3,8-Divinyl(proto)chlorophyll(ide) to 3-Monovinyl(proto)chlorophyll(ide)

(2008) M. R. Islam et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY