The Evolution and Evolvability of Photosystem II

Bicarbonate-controlled reduction of oxygen by the QA semiquinone in Photosystem II in membranes

(2022) Andrea Fantuzzi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxidase enzymes as sustainable oxidation catalysts

(2022) Alice J. C. Wahart et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Reexamination of 2.5-Ga “whiff” of oxygen interval points to anoxic ocean before GOE

(2022) Sarah P. Slotznick et al.   Science Advances

From manganese oxidation to water oxidation: assembly and evolution of the water-splitting complex in photosystem II

(2022) Nicholas Oliver et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Molecular Evolution of Far-Red Light-Acclimated Photosystem II

(2022) Christopher J. Gisriel et al.   Microorganisms

Carbon-negative synthetic biology: challenges and emerging trends of cyanobacterial technology

(2022) Chunlin Tan et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Structure of the Acidobacteria homodimeric reaction center bound with cytochrome c

(2022) Shishang Dong et al.   Nature Communications

Navigating the Unnatural Reaction Space: Directed Evolution of Heme Proteins for Selective Carbene and Nitrene Transfer

(2021) Yang Yang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation

(2021) Jagoda Jabłońska et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A novel thylakoid-less isolate fills a billion-year gap in the evolution of Cyanobacteria

(2021) Nasim Rahmatpour et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A rooted phylogeny resolves early bacterial evolution

(2021) Gareth A. Coleman et al.   SCIENCE

The History of Ocean Oxygenation

(2021) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Time-resolved comparative molecular evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis

(2021) Thomas Oliver et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Evolution of Superoxide Dismutases and Catalases in Cyanobacteria: Occurrence of the Antioxidant Enzyme Genes before the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen

(2021) Mariko Harada et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

GTDB: an ongoing census of bacterial and archaeal diversity through a phylogenetically consistent, rank normalized and complete genome-based taxonomy

(2021) Donovan H Parks et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Recent advances in the structural diversity of reaction centers

(2021) Christopher J. Gisriel et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Timing the evolution of antioxidant enzymes in cyanobacteria

(2021) Joanne S. Boden et al.   Nature Communications

Improving microalgae for biotechnology — From genetics to synthetic biology – Moving forward but not there yet

(2021) Veronika Kselíková et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Complete Genome Sequencing of a Novel Gloeobacter Species from a Waterfall Cave in Mexico

(2021) Jimmy H Saw et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Structure of a monomeric photosystem II core complex from a cyanobacterium acclimated to far-red light reveals the functions of chlorophylls d and f

(2021) Christopher J. Gisriel et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Delayed and variable late Archaean atmospheric oxidation due to high collision rates on Earth

(2021) S. Marchi et al.   Nature Geoscience

High-resolution cryo-electron microscopy structure of photosystem II from the mesophilic cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

(2021) Christopher J. Gisriel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

O2 and Other High-Energy Molecules in Photosynthesis: Why Plants Need Two Photosystems

(2021) Klaus Schmidt-Rohr   Life-Basel

Nuclear Integrants of Organellar DNA Contribute to Genome Structure and Evolution in Plants

(2020) Guo-Jun Zhang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Designing for a green chemistry future

(2020) Julie B. Zimmerman et al.   SCIENCE

Catalytic Oxidations in a Bio-Based Economy

(2020) Roger A. Sheldon   Frontiers in Chemistry

The Archean atmosphere

(2020) David C. Catling et al.   Science Advances

A phylogenetically novel cyanobacterium most closely related to Gloeobacter

(2020) Christen L. Grettenberger et al.   ISME Journal

Global distribution of a chlorophyll f cyanobacterial marker

(2020) Laura A. Antonaru et al.   ISME Journal

Biosynthesis of the modified tetrapyrroles—the pigments of life

(2020) Donald A. Bryant et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Assembly of eukaryotic photosystem II with diverse light-harvesting antennas

(2020) Peng Cao et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

The diversity and distribution of D1 proteins in cyanobacteria

(2020) Kevin J. Sheridan et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Architecture of the photosynthetic complex from a green sulfur bacterium

(2020) Jing-Hua Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Light-driven formation of manganese oxide by today’s photosystem II supports evolutionarily ancient manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis

(2020) Petko Chernev et al.   Nature Communications

Bioeconomy moving forward step by step – A global journey

(2020) Roland Wohlgemuth et al.   New Biotechnology

Characterization of chlorophyll f synthase heterologously produced in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002

(2019) Gaozhong Shen et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Thinking twice about the evolution of photosynthesis

(2019) Tanai Cardona   Open Biology

The evolution of photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in the cyanobacteria

(2019) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Cyanobacteria evolution: Insight from the fossil record

(2019) Catherine F. Demoulin et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Timing the Evolutionary Advent of Cyanobacteria and the Later Great Oxidation Event Using Gene Phylogenies of a Sunscreen

(2019) Ferran Garcia-Pichel et al.   mBio

Evolution of Photochemical Reaction Centres: More Twists?

(2019) Tanai Cardona et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Two intracellular and cell type-specific bacterial symbionts in the placozoan Trichoplax H2

(2019) Harald R. Gruber-Vodicka et al.   Nature Microbiology

Energetics of the exchangeable quinone, QB, in Photosystem II

(2019) Sven De Causmaecker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Far-red light allophycocyanin subunits play a role in chlorophyll d accumulation in far-red light

(2019) Donald A. Bryant et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Stepwise Earth oxygenation is an inherent property of global biogeochemical cycling

(2019) Lewis J. Alcott et al.   SCIENCE

Biocatalytic Oxidation Reactions: A Chemist's Perspective

(2018) JiaJia Dong et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Directed Evolution of Protein Catalysts

(2018) Cathleen Zeymer et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Diel regulation of photosynthetic activity in the oceanic unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacterium Crocosphaera watsonii WH8501

(2018) Takako Masuda et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Enhancing photosynthesis in plants: the light reactions

(2018) Tanai Cardona et al.   Essays in Biochemistry

Dating phototrophic microbial lineages with reticulate gene histories

(2018) C. Magnabosco et al.   Geobiology

Photochemistry beyond the red limit in chlorophyll f–containing photosystems

(2018) Dennis J. Nürnberg et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Early Archean origin of Photosystem II

(2018) Tanai Cardona et al.   Geobiology

A Mesoarchean shift in uranium isotope systematics

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

Genome analyses of uncultured TG2/ZB3 bacteria in ‘Margulisbacteria’ specifically attached to ectosymbiotic spirochetes of protists in the termite gut

(2018) Yuniar Devi Utami et al.   ISME Journal

Regulation of PSII function in Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142 during a light–dark cycle

(2018) Cosmin Ionel Sicora et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

The C21-formyl group in chlorophyllforiginates from molecular oxygen

(2017) Harsh Garg et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Photosystem II is a Chimera of Reaction Centers

(2017) Tanai Cardona   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Modern diversification of the amino acid repertoire driven by oxygen

(2017) Matthias Granold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structure of a symmetric photosynthetic reaction center–photosystem

(2017) Christopher Gisriel et al.   SCIENCE

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

Comparison of D1´- and D1-containing PS II reaction centre complexes under different environmental conditions inSynechocystissp. PCC 6803

(2016) Tim S. Crawford et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

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

Photoactivation: The Light-Driven Assembly of the Water Oxidation Complex of Photosystem II

(2016) Han Bao et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

(2016) Madeline C. Weiss et al.   Nature Microbiology

Oxidative elemental cycling under the low O2 Eoarchean atmosphere

(2016) Robert Frei et al.   Scientific Reports

Deciphering Primordial Cyanobacterial Genome Functions from Protein Network Analysis

(2015) Arye Harel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A redox-stratified ocean 3.2 billion years ago

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

Why Combustions Are Always Exothermic, Yielding About 418 kJ per Mole of O2

(2015) Klaus Schmidt-Rohr   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION

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

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

Morphological adaptations of 3.22 Ga-old tufted microbial mats to Archean coastal habitats (Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa)

(2015) Martin Homann et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The molecular dimension of microbial species: 3. Comparative genomics of Synechococcus strains with different light responses and in situ diel transcription patterns of associated putative ecotypes in the Mushroom Spring microbial mat

(2015) Millie T. Olsen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Back from the dead; the curious tale of the predatory cyanobacteriumVampirovibrio chlorellavorus

(2015) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   PeerJ

Accessibility controls selective degradation of photosystem II subunits by FtsH protease

(2015) Vendula Krynická et al.   Nature Plants

Some Photosystem II properties depending on the D1 protein variants in Thermosynechococcus elongatus

(2014) Miwa Sugiura et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

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

Engineered Photosystem II Reaction Centers Optimize Photochemistry versus Photoprotection at Different Solar Intensities

(2014) David J. Vinyard et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The evolution of respiratory O2/NO reductases: an out-of-the-phylogenetic-box perspective

(2014) A.-L. Ducluzeau et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

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

(2014) Tanai Cardona   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Extensive remodeling of a cyanobacterial photosynthetic apparatus in far-red light

(2014) F. Gan et al.   SCIENCE

Modification of the pheophytin redox potential in Thermosynechococcus elongatus Photosystem II with PsbA3 as D1

(2013) Miwa Sugiura et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Cell-specific gene expression in Anabaena variabilis grown phototrophically, mixotrophically, and heterotrophically

(2013) Jeong-Jin Park et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

The human gut and groundwater harbor non-photosynthetic bacteria belonging to a new candidate phylum sibling to Cyanobacteria

(2013) Sara C Di Rienzi et al.   eLife

Oxygen and Hydrogen Peroxide in the Early Evolution of Life on Earth: In silico Comparative Analysis of Biochemical Pathways

(2012) Ireneusz Ślesak et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A unique regulation of the expression of the psbA, psbD, and psbE genes, encoding the D1, D2 and cytochrome b559 subunits of the Photosystem II complex in the chlorophyll d containing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina

(2012) Éva Kiss et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

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

Environment of TyrZin Photosystem II fromThermosynechococcus elongatusin which PsbA2 Is the D1 Protein

(2012) Miwa Sugiura et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Evolution of Photosynthesis

(2011) Martin F. Hohmann-Marriott et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Light-induced quinone reduction in photosystem II

(2011) Frank Müh et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Strategies for psbA gene expression in cyanobacteria, green algae and higher plants: From transcription to PSII repair

(2011) Paula Mulo et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

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

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

(2011) James W. Murray   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Dinoflagellate Genome Evolution

(2010) Jennifer H. Wisecaver et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Robustness of Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction to Phylogenetic Uncertainty

(2010) Victor Hanson-Smith et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion

(2010) Lawrence A. David et al.   NATURE

The evolutionary pathway from anoxygenic to oxygenic photosynthesis examined by comparison of the properties of photosystem II and bacterial reaction centers

(2010) J. P. Allen et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Contributions of anoxygenic and oxygenic phototrophy and chemolithotrophy to carbon and oxygen fluxes in aquatic environments

(2009) JA Raven   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Cyanobacterial psbA gene family: optimization of oxygenic photosynthesis

(2009) Paula Mulo et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

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

Low-Oxygen Induction of Normally CrypticpsbAGenes in Cyanobacteria†

(2008) Tina C. Summerfield et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Transcription of a “silent” cyanobacterial psbA gene is induced by microaerobic conditions

(2008) Cosmin Ionel Sicora et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Differential Transcriptional Analysis of the Cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. Strain ATCC 51142 during Light-Dark and Continuous-Light Growth

(2008) J. Toepel et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Multiple Evolutionary Histories of Dioxygen Reductases: Implications for the Origin and Evolution of Aerobic Respiration

(2008) C. Brochier-Armanet et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Major Clade of Prokaryotes with Ancient Adaptations to Life on Land

(2008) F. U. Battistuzzi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Why did Nature choose manganese to make oxygen?

(2007) F. A Armstrong   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES