Early Archean origin of Photosystem II

Evidence of oxygenic phototrophy in ancient phosphatic stromatolites from the Paleoproterozoic Vindhyan and Aravalli Supergroups, India

(2018) T. Sallstedt et al.   Geobiology

Dating phototrophic microbial lineages with reticulate gene histories

(2018) C. Magnabosco et al.   Geobiology

Evolution of photosynthetic reaction centers: insights from the structure of the heliobacterial reaction center

(2018) Gregory S. Orf et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Early emergence of the FtsH proteases involved in photosystem II repair

(2018) S. Shao et al.   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

Carbonaceous biosignatures of the earliest putative macroscopic multicellular eukaryotes from 1630 Ma Tuanshanzi Formation, north China

(2018) Yuangao Qu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Photochemistry beyond the red limit in chlorophyll f–containing photosystems

(2018) Dennis J. Nürnberg et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid emergence of subaerial landmasses and onset of a modern hydrologic cycle 2.5 billion years ago

(2018) I. N. Bindeman et al.   NATURE

Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life’s early evolution and eukaryote origin

(2018) Holly C. Betts et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A Mesoarchean shift in uranium isotope systematics

(2018) Xiangli Wang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

Photosystem II is a Chimera of Reaction Centers

(2017) Tanai Cardona   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Paleoproterozoic sterol biosynthesis and the rise of oxygen

(2017) David A. Gold et al.   NATURE

Earth’s early O2 cycle suppressed by primitive continents

(2017) Matthijs A. Smit et al.   Nature Geoscience

Evolution of the 3-hydroxypropionate bicycle and recent transfer of anoxygenic photosynthesis into the Chloroflexi

(2017) Patrick M. Shih et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited low-salinity habitats

(2017) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SIMS analyses of the oldest known assemblage of microfossils document their taxon-correlated carbon isotope compositions

(2017) J. William Schopf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria

(2017) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   SCIENCE

Structure of a symmetric photosynthetic reaction center–photosystem

(2017) Christopher Gisriel et al.   SCIENCE

Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae

(2017) Stefan Bengtson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Seeing through the magnetite: Reassessing Eoarchean atmosphere composition from Isua (Greenland) ≥3.7 Ga banded iron formations

(2017) Allen P. Nutman et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Crown group Oxyphotobacteria postdate the rise of oxygen

(2016) P. M. Shih et al.   Geobiology

Cyanobacterial evolution during the Precambrian

(2016) Bettina E. Schirrmeister et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

The extrinsic proteins of photosystem II: update

(2016) Johnna L. Roose et al.   PLANTA

Cytosine deamination and the precipitous decline of spontaneous mutation during Earth's history

(2016) Charles A. Lewis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bicarbonate-induced redox tuning in Photosystem II for regulation and protection

(2016) Katharina Brinkert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Light-dependent chlorophyll f synthase is a highly divergent paralog of PsbA of photosystem II

(2016) M.-Y. Ho et al.   SCIENCE

Reconstructing the Origin of Oxygenic Photosynthesis: Do Assembly and Photoactivation Recapitulate Evolution?

(2016) Tanai Cardona   Frontiers in Plant Science

Oxidative elemental cycling under the low O2 Eoarchean atmosphere

(2016) Robert Frei et al.   Scientific Reports

Divergence time estimates and the evolution of major lineages in the florideophyte red algae

(2016) Eun Chan Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

Assembly of oxygen-evolving Photosystem II efficiently occurs with the apo-Cyt b 559 but the holo-Cyt b 559 accelerates the recovery of a functional enzyme upon photoinhibition

(2015) Miwa Sugiura et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

A redox-stratified ocean 3.2 billion years ago

(2015) Aaron M. Satkoski et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Origin and Evolution of Water Oxidation before the Last Common Ancestor of the Cyanobacteria

(2015) Tanai Cardona et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Timescales of Oxygenation Following the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

(2015) Lewis M. Ward et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event: evidence from genes and fossils

(2015) Bettina E. Schirrmeister et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Proterozoic photosynthesis - a critical review

(2015) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PALAEONTOLOGY

Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Microbial Evolution

(2015) Andrew H. Knoll   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Accessibility controls selective degradation of photosystem II subunits by FtsH protease

(2015) Vendula Krynická et al.   Nature Plants

Origin of marine planktonic cyanobacteria

(2015) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo   Scientific Reports

Cross-bracing uncalibrated nodes in molecular dating improves congruence of fossil and molecular age estimates

(2014) Prashant P Sharma et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Oxygenation of the Archean atmosphere: New paleosol constraints from eastern India

(2014) Joydip Mukhopadhyay et al.   GEOLOGY

An AtypicalpsbAGene Encodes a Sentinel D1 Protein to Form a Physiologically Relevant Inactive Photosystem II Complex in Cyanobacteria

(2014) Kimberly M. Wegener et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Molecular-clock methods for estimating evolutionary rates and timescales

(2014) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Structure of the LH1–RC complex from Thermochromatium tepidum at 3.0 Å

(2014) Satomi Niwa et al.   NATURE

Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

(2014) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

A fresh look at the evolution and diversification of photochemical reaction centers

(2014) Tanai Cardona   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Investigating the Photoprotective Role of Cytochrome b-559 in Photosystem II in a Mutant with Altered Ligation of the Haem

(2014) Mary L. Hamilton et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

On the question of the light-harvesting role of β-carotene in photosystem II and photosystem I core complexes

(2014) Kostas Stamatakis et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Identification of an Archean marine oxygen oasis

(2014) Robert Riding et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Functional type 2 photosynthetic reaction centers found in the rare bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes

(2014) Y. Zeng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water in Photosystem II: Structural, functional and mechanistic considerations

(2013) Katrin Linke et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Biological Fe oxidation controlled deposition of banded iron formation in the ca. 3770Ma Isua Supracrustal Belt (West Greenland)

(2013) Andrew D. Czaja et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

(2013) Sean A. Crowe et al.   NATURE

COVARIANCE OF MICROFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES AND MICROBIALITE TEXTURES ACROSS AN UPPER MESOPROTEROZOIC CARBONATE PLATFORM

(2013) A. H. KNOLL et al.   PALAIOS

Evolution of multicellularity coincided with increased diversification of cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event

(2013) B. E. Schirrmeister et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis before the rise of cyanobacteria

(2013) J. E. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Primary endosymbiosis events date to the later Proterozoic with cross-calibrated phylogenetic dating of duplicated ATPase proteins

(2013) P. M. Shih et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Assembling and maintaining the Photosystem II complex in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria

(2012) Josef Komenda et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Back-reactions, short-circuits, leaks and other energy wasteful reactions in biological electron transfer: Redox tuning to survive life in O2

(2012) A. William Rutherford et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Artificial photosynthesis for solar water-splitting

(2012) Yasuhiro Tachibana et al.   Nature Photonics

Evolutionary Features and Intracellular Behavior of the PRTB Protein

(2011) Miki Matsunami et al.   BIOCHEMICAL GENETICS

Charge separation in Photosystem II: A comparative and evolutionary overview

(2011) Tanai Cardona et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Lifetimes of photosystem I and II proteins in the cyanobacteriumSynechocystissp. PCC 6803

(2011) Danny C.I. Yao et al.   FEBS LETTERS

A late methanogen origin for molybdenum-dependent nitrogenase

(2011) E. S. BOYD et al.   Geobiology

Isolation and Characterization of Homodimeric Type-I Reaction Center Complex fromCandidatusChloracidobacterium thermophilum, an Aerobic Chlorophototroph

(2011) Yusuke Tsukatani et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

PsbO, the manganese-stabilizing protein: Analysis of the structure–function relations that provide insights into its role in photosystem II

(2011) Hana Popelkova et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY

Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å

(2011) Yasufumi Umena et al.   NATURE

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

(2011) John T. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Sequence variation at the oxygen-evolving centre of photosystem II: a new class of ‘rogue’ cyanobacterial D1 proteins

(2011) James W. Murray   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Dating the cyanobacterial ancestor of the chloroplast

(2010) Luisa I Falcón et al.   ISME Journal

Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion

(2010) Lawrence A. David et al.   NATURE

The evolution of gene duplications: classifying and distinguishing between models

(2010) Hideki Innan et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Principles, Efficiency, and Blueprint Character of Solar-Energy Conversion in Photosynthetic Water Oxidation

(2009) Holger Dau et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Timing of morphological and ecological innovations in the cyanobacteria – a key to understanding the rise in atmospheric oxygen

(2009) C. E. BLANK et al.   Geobiology

Morphological record of oxygenic photosynthesis in conical stromatolites

(2009) T. Bosak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Janus-faced charge recombinations in photosystem II photoinhibition

(2009) Imre Vass et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Duplications and functional divergence of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase genes in plants

(2008) Nikolaos Georgelis et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Rodents

(2008) Emily H. Kay et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Singlet oxygen production in photosystem II and related protection mechanism

(2008) Anja Krieger-Liszkay et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH