Living off the Sun: chlorophylls, bacteriochlorophylls and rhodopsins

Light enhances the growth rates of natural populations of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria

(2017) Isabel Ferrera et al.   ISME Journal

A niche for cyanobacteria producing chlorophyll f within a microbial mat

(2017) Satoshi Ohkubo et al.   ISME Journal

The possible evolution and future of CO2-concentrating mechanisms

(2017) John A Raven et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Implications for the Light-Driven Chloride Ion Transport Mechanism of Nonlabens marinus Rhodopsin 3 by Its Photochemical Characteristics

(2017) Takashi Tsukamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Importance of the green color, absorption gradient, and spectral absorption of chloroplasts for the radiative energy balance of leaves

(2017) Atsushi Kume   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Retinal-Based Proton Pumping in the Near Infrared

(2017) Srividya Ganapathy et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Evolution and palaeophysiology of the vascular system and other means of long-distance transport

(2017) John A. Raven   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Absorptance determinations on multicellular tissues

(2017) Román Manuel Vásquez-Elizondo et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Evolution of the Z-scheme of photosynthesis: a perspective

(2017) Govindjee et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Shear force-based genetic screen reveals negative regulators of cell adhesion and protrusive activity

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

Biological origins of color categorization

(2017) Alice E. Skelton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Energetics and dynamics of a light-driven sodium-pumping rhodopsin

(2017) Carl-Mikael Suomivuori 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

Chlorophylls d and f and their role in primary photosynthetic processes of cyanobacteria

(2016) S. I. Allakhverdiev et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY-MOSCOW

The light-driven sodium ion pump: A new player in rhodopsin research

(2016) Hideaki E. Kato et al.   BIOESSAYS

Mixotrophy everywhere on land and in water: the grand écart hypothesis

(2016) Marc-André Selosse et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Distribution and expression of microbial rhodopsins in the Baltic Sea and adjacent waters

(2016) Björn Brindefalk et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

Single-cell activity of freshwater aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria and their contribution to biomass production

(2016) Maria C Garcia-Chaves et al.   ISME Journal

Leaf color is fine-tuned on the solar spectra to avoid strand direct solar radiation

(2016) Atsushi Kume et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Marine Bacterial and Archaeal Ion-Pumping Rhodopsins: Genetic Diversity, Physiology, and Ecology

(2016) Jarone Pinhassi et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Ancient micrometeorites suggestive of an oxygen-rich Archaean upper atmosphere

(2016) Andrew G. Tomkins et al.   NATURE

Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures

(2016) Allen P. Nutman et al.   NATURE

Earth's air pressure 2.7 billion years ago constrained to less than half of modern levels

(2016) Sanjoy M. Som et al.   Nature Geoscience

Matworld - the biogeochemical effects of early life on land

(2016) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Far-red light photoacclimation (FaRLiP) in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7335: I. Regulation of FaRLiP gene expression

(2016) Ming-Yang Ho et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Functional Green-Tuned Proteorhodopsin from Modern Stromatolites

(2016) Virginia Helena Albarracín et al.   PLoS One

Global and Regional Variability and Change in Terrestrial Ecosystems Net Primary Production and NDVI: A Model-Data Comparison

(2016) Rashid Rafique et al.   Remote Sensing

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

(2016) Tanai Cardona   Frontiers in Plant Science

Real-time kinetics of electrogenic Na+ transport by rhodopsin from the marine flavobacterium Dokdonia sp. PRO95

(2016) Alexander V. Bogachev et al.   Scientific Reports

Chloroplast phylogenomic analyses reveal the deepest-branching lineage of the Chlorophyta, Palmophyllophyceae class. nov.

(2016) Frederik Leliaert et al.   Scientific Reports

Deciphering Primordial Cyanobacterial Genome Functions from Protein Network Analysis

(2015) Arye Harel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Chlorophyll f-driven photosynthesis in a cavernous cyanobacterium

(2015) Lars Behrendt et al.   ISME Journal

The ins and outs of CO2

(2015) John A. Raven et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Directed Evolution of Gloeobacter violaceus Rhodopsin Spectral Properties

(2015) Martin K.M. Engqvist et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Genome sequence of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Erythrobacter sp. JL475, isolated from the South China Sea

(2015) Qiang Zheng et al.   Marine Genomics

Pronounced gradients of light, photosynthesis and O2consumption in the tissue of the brown algaFucus serratus

(2015) Mads Lichtenberg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Could land-based early photosynthesizing ecosystems have bioengineered the planet in mid-Palaeozoic times?

(2015) Dianne Edwards et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Proterozoic photosynthesis - a critical review

(2015) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PALAEONTOLOGY

The terrestrial biota prior to the origin of land plants (embryophytes): a review of the evidence

(2015) Charles H. Wellman et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Measurement of Photosynthesis Using PAM Technology in a Purple Sulfur BacteriumThermochromatium tepidum(Chromatiaceae)

(2015) Raymond J. Ritchie et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY

Energy transfer in the chlorophyll f-containing cyanobacterium, Halomicronema hongdechloris, analyzed by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopies

(2015) Seiji Akimoto et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Harvesting Far-Red Light by Chlorophyllfin Photosystems I and II of Unicellular Cyanobacterium strain KC1

(2015) Shigeru Itoh et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand

(2015) Donald R. Ort et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Light-driven increase in carbon yield is linked to maintenance in the proteorhodopsin-containing Photobacterium angustum S14

(2015) Alicia Courties et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Origin of marine planktonic cyanobacteria

(2015) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo   Scientific Reports

Chlorophyll Modifications and Their Spectral Extension in Oxygenic Photosynthesis

(2014) Min Chen   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Dynamics of Metabolic Activities and Gene Expression in the Roseobacter Clade Bacterium Phaeobacter sp. Strain MED193 during Growth with Thiosulfate

(2014) Saraladevi Muthusamy et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Energy transfer processes in chlorophyll f -containing cyanobacteria using time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy on intact cells

(2014) Tatsuya Tomo et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Novel type of red-shifted chlorophyll a antenna complex from Chromera velia. I. Physiological relevance and functional connection to photosystems

(2014) Eva Kotabová et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Novel type of red-shifted chlorophyll a antenna complex from Chromera velia: II. Biochemistry and spectroscopy

(2014) David Bína et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

A Neoproterozoic Transition in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle

(2014) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An Expanded Genomic Representation of the Phylum Cyanobacteria

(2014) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Photosynthesis in an Encrusting Lichen (Dirinaria picta (Sw.) Schaer.ex Clem., Physiaceae) and its Symbiont, Trebouxia sp., Using Pulse Amplitude Modulation Fluorometry

(2014) Raymond J. Ritchie   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Enhanced biofuel production using optimality, pathway modification and waste minimization

(2014) John A. Raven et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

Long-Wavelength Limit of Photochemical Energy Conversion in Photosystem I

(2014) Eberhard Schlodder et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Apparent PS II absorption cross-section and estimation of mean PAR in optically thin and dense suspensions of Chlorella

(2014) Christof Klughammer et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Excited state properties of chlorophyll f in organic solvents at ambient and cryogenic temperatures

(2014) Dariusz M. Niedzwiedzki et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Bioinformatic analysis of the distribution of inorganic carbon transporters and prospective targets for bioengineering to increase Ci uptake by cyanobacteria

(2014) Sandeep B. Gaudana et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Energy costs of carbon dioxide concentrating mechanisms in aquatic organisms

(2014) John A. Raven et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

A portable reflectance-absorptance-transmittance meter for photosynthetic work on vascular plant leaves

(2014) R. J. Ritchie et al.   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

Cyanobacterial Light-Driven Proton Pump, Gloeobacter Rhodopsin: Complementarity between Rhodopsin-Based Energy Production and Photosynthesis

(2014) Ah Reum Choi et al.   PLoS One

Light-Promoted Rhodopsin Expression and Starvation Survival in the Marine Dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina

(2014) Zhiling Guo et al.   PLoS One

Stimulation of growth by proteorhodopsin phototrophy involves regulation of central metabolic pathways in marine planktonic bacteria

(2014) J. Palovaara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional characterization of flavobacteria rhodopsins reveals a unique class of light-driven chloride pump in bacteria

(2014) S. Yoshizawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

In vitro Conversion of Vinyl to Formyl Groups in Naturally Occurring Chlorophylls

(2014) Patrick C. Loughlin et al.   Scientific Reports

Environmental persistence of chlorine from prawn farm discharge monitored by measuring the light reactions of photosynthesis of phytoplankton

(2013) Panthida Saetae et al.   AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL

Photocycle and Vectorial Proton Transfer in a Rhodopsin from the Eukaryote Oxyrrhis marina

(2013) Christian Janke et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Proteorhodopsin

(2013) Christian Bamann et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Goldacre Review: The mixotrophic nature of photosynthetic plants

(2013) Susanne Schmidt et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Light-stimulated growth of proteorhodopsin-bearing sea-ice psychrophile Psychroflexus torquis is salinity dependent

(2013) Shi Feng et al.   ISME Journal

Structure of Chlorophyll f

(2013) Robert D. Willows et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Interactions of photosynthesis with genome size and function

(2013) J. A. Raven et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Use of Solar Radiation by the Photosynthetic Bacterium,Rhodopseudomonas palustris: Model Simulation of Conditions Found in a Shallow Pond or a Flatbed Reactor

(2013) Raymond J. Ritchie   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY

Chlorophyll d and Acaryochloris marina: current status

(2013) Patrick Loughlin et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

The Primitive Thylakoid-Less Cyanobacterium Gloeobacter Is a Common Rock-Dwelling Organism

(2013) Jan Mareš et al.   PLoS One

Cultivation and Complete Genome Sequencing of Gloeobacter kilaueensis sp. nov., from a Lava Cave in Kīlauea Caldera, Hawai'i

(2013) Jimmy H. W. Saw et al.   PLoS One

Assignment of the Q-Bands of the Chlorophylls: Coherence Loss via Qx − Qy Mixing

(2013) Jeffrey R. Reimers et al.   Scientific Reports

THE EVOLUTION OF SOLAR FLUX FROM 0.1 nm TO 160 μm: QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES FOR PLANETARY STUDIES

(2012) Mark W. Claire et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Extinction coefficient for red-shifted chlorophylls: Chlorophyll d and chlorophyll f

(2012) Yaqiong Li et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Proteorhodopsin genes in giant viruses

(2012) Natalya Yutin et al.   Biology Direct

A cyanobacterium that contains chlorophyllf- a red-absorbing photopigment

(2012) Min Chen et al.   FEBS LETTERS

ZOOSPOROGENESIS, MORPHOLOGY, ULTRASTRUCTURE, PIGMENT COMPOSITION, AND PHYLOGENETIC POSITION OF TRACHYDISCUS MINUTUS (EUSTIGMATOPHYCEAE, HETEROKONTOPHYTA)1

(2012) Pavel Přibyl et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Extending the limits of natural photosynthesis and implications for technical light harvesting

(2012) Min Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF PORPHYRINS AND PHTHALOCYANINES

Air density 2.7 billion years ago limited to less than twice modern levels by fossil raindrop imprints

(2012) Sanjoy M. Som et al.   NATURE

Photosynthetic Electron Transport in an Anoxygenic Photosynthetic BacteriumAfifella(Rhodopseudomonas)marinaMeasured Using PAM Fluorometry

(2012) Raymond J. Ritchie et al.   PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY

Ecophysiology of photosynthesis in macroalgae

(2012) John A. Raven et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Formyl group modification of chlorophylla: a major evolutionary mechanism in oxygenic photosynthesis

(2012) MARTIN SCHLIEP et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Comparative metatranscriptomics identifies molecular bases for the physiological responses of phytoplankton to varying iron availability

(2012) A. Marchetti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cyanophora paradoxa Genome Elucidates Origin of Photosynthesis in Algae and Plants

(2012) D. C. Price et al.   SCIENCE

Bioenergetics of photoheterotrophic bacteria in the oceans

(2012) David L. Kirchman et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

A seventh bacterial chlorophyll driving a large light-harvesting antenna

(2012) Jiro Harada et al.   Scientific Reports

Bacteriochlorophyll f: properties of chlorosomes containing the “forbidden chlorophyll”

(2012) Kajetan Vogl et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Evolution of Photosynthesis

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

Microbial rhodopsins on leaf surfaces of terrestrial plants

(2011) Nof Atamna-Ismaeel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic analysis of the light-harvesting system in Chromera velia

(2011) Hao Pan et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

The Plasma Membrane of the CyanobacteriumGloeobacter violaceusContains Segregated Bioenergetic Domains

(2011) Sascha Rexroth et al.   PLANT CELL

Tools providing new insight into coastal anoxygenic purple bacterial mats: review and perspectives

(2011) Cédric Hubas et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement

(2011) R. E. Blankenship et al.   SCIENCE

Expanding the solar spectrum used by photosynthesis

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

A bacterial proteorhodopsin proton pump in marine eukaryotes

(2011) Claudio H. Slamovits et al.   Nature Communications

Proteorhodopsin-Bearing Bacteria in Antarctic Sea Ice

(2010) E. Y. Koh et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microalgae as biodiesel & biomass feedstocks: Review & analysis of the biochemistry, energetics & economics

(2010) Peter J. le B. Williams et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

A new chlorophyll d-containing cyanobacterium: evidence for niche adaptation in the genus Acaryochloris

(2010) Remus Mohr et al.   ISME Journal

Genome Sequence of Fulvimarina pelagi HTCC2506T, a Mn(II)-Oxidizing Alphaproteobacterium Possessing an Aerobic Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Gene Cluster and Xanthorhodopsin

(2010) I. Kang et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

18O Labeling of ChlorophylldinAcaryochloris marinaReveals That Chlorophyllaand Molecular Oxygen Are Precursors

(2010) Martin Schliep et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Morpho-functional patterns and zonation of South Chilean seaweeds: the importance of photosynthetic and bio-optical traits

(2010) I Gómez et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Cost and color of photosynthesis

(2010) Marcell A. Marosvölgyi et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

A Red-Shifted Chlorophyll: Fig. 1

(2010) Min Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Proteorhodopsin Phototrophy Promotes Survival of Marine Bacteria during Starvation

(2010) Laura Gómez-Consarnau et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

(2009) JA Raven   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Cryptic Photosynthesis—Extrasolar Planetary Oxygen Without a Surface Biological Signature

(2009) Charles S. Cockell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Localization of Pcb antenna complexes in the photosynthetic prokaryote Prochlorothrix hollandica

(2009) Miroslava Herbstová et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Cell size trade-offs govern light exploitation strategies in marine phytoplankton

(2009) Tim Key et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Immobility of phycobilins in the thylakoid lumen of a cryptophyte suggests that protein diffusion in the lumen is very restricted

(2009) Radek Kaňa et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Functional evolution of photochemical energy transformations in oxygen-producing organisms

(2009) John A. Raven   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

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

Phagotrophy in the origins of photosynthesis in eukaryotes and as a complementary mode of nutrition in phototrophs: relation to Darwin's insectivorous plants

(2009) J. A. Raven et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Phytoplankton in a changing world: cell size and elemental stoichiometry

(2009) Z. V. Finkel et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

What governs the reaction center excitation wavelength of photosystems I and II?

(2009) Ron Milo   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

A viewpoint: Why chlorophyll a?

(2009) Lars Olof Björn et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Defining the Far-Red Limit of Photosystem II in Spinach

(2009) A. Thapper et al.   PLANT CELL

Anoxygenic photosynthesis modulated Proterozoic oxygen and sustained Earth's middle age

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

What is the maximum efficiency with which photosynthesis can convert solar energy into biomass?

(2008) Xin-Guang Zhu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

In situphotosynthetic rates of tropical marine macroalgae at their lower depth limit

(2008) John W. Runcie et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Widespread distribution of proteorhodopsins in freshwater and brackish ecosystems

(2008) Nof Atamna-Ismaeel et al.   ISME Journal

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

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

Modeling the electron transport chain of purple non-sulfur bacteria

(2008) Steffen Klamt et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Allometry and stoichiometry of unicellular, colonial and multicellular phytoplankton

(2008) John Beardall et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Unique photosystems in Acaryochloris marina

(2008) Shunsuke Ohashi et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Fitting light saturation curves measured using modulated fluorometry

(2008) Raymond J. Ritchie   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH