Evolution of Photosynthesis

Characterization of photosystem I antenna proteins in the prasinophyte Ostreococcus tauri

(2010) Wesley D. Swingley et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Occurrence, biosynthesis and function of isoprenoid quinones

(2010) Beatrycze Nowicka et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of life

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   BIOESSAYS

Analyzing protein structure and function using ancestral gene reconstruction

(2010) Michael J Harms et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

The redox state of the plastoquinone pool directly modulates minimum chlorophyll fluorescence yield inChlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2010) Martin F. Hohmann-Marriott et al.   FEBS LETTERS

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

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

Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria

(2010) Katharina F. Ettwig et al.   NATURE

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

(2010) P. J. Keeling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An overview on chlorophylls and quinones in the photosystem I-type reaction centers

(2010) Shunsuke Ohashi et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

The “green” phylogenetic clade of Rieske/cytb complexes

(2010) W. Nitschke et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Early Evolution of Photosynthesis

(2010) R. E. Blankenship   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Identification of a methylase required for 2-methylhopanoid production and implications for the interpretation of sedimentary hopanes

(2010) P. V. Welander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Independent initiation of primary electron transfer in the two branches of the photosystem I reaction center

(2010) M. G. Muller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A common red algal origin of the apicomplexan, dinoflagellate, and heterokont plastids

(2010) J. Janouskovec et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Red-Shifted Chlorophyll: Fig. 1

(2010) Min Chen et al.   SCIENCE

The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Enhances Bacterial Survival during Tough Times

(2010) Edward F. DeLong et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Enzymatic activity of the alternative complex III as a menaquinol:auracyanin oxidoreductase in the electron transfer chain ofChloroflexus aurantiacus

(2009) Xinliu Gao et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Functional evolution of photochemical energy transformations in oxygen-producing organisms

(2009) John A. Raven   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Structure Determination and Improved Model of Plant Photosystem I

(2009) Alexey Amunts et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric oxygenation recorded by chromium isotopes

(2009) Robert Frei et al.   NATURE

Photosystem I gene cassettes are present in marine virus genomes

(2009) Itai Sharon et al.   NATURE

Microbial habitability of the Hadean Earth during the late heavy bombardment

(2009) Oleg Abramov et al.   NATURE

Hydrothermal alteration and microfossil artefacts of the 3,465-million-year-old Apex chert

(2009) Daniele L. Pinti et al.   Nature Geoscience

The cycling and redox state of nitrogen in the Archaean ocean

(2009) Linda V. Godfrey et al.   Nature Geoscience

Cyanobacterial photosystem II at 2.9-Å resolution and the role of quinones, lipids, channels and chloride

(2009) Albert Guskov et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

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

Alternating syn-anti bacteriochlorophylls form concentric helical nanotubes in chlorosomes

(2009) S. Ganapathy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Menaquinone as pool quinone in a purple bacterium

(2009) B. Schoepp-Cothenet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identifying the missing steps of the autotrophic 3-hydroxypropionate CO2fixation cycle inChloroflexus aurantiacus

(2009) Jan Zarzycki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Earliest Land Plants

(2008) Patricia G. Gensel   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Iron–sulfur cluster biosynthesis in bacteria: Mechanisms of cluster assembly and transfer

(2008) Marc Fontecave et al.   ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

The Rieske/cytochrome b complex of Heliobacteria

(2008) A.L. Ducluzeau et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Enzyme phylogenies as markers for the oxidation state of the environment: The case of respiratory arsenate reductase and related enzymes

(2008) Simon Duval et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Chromatophore Genome Sequence of Paulinella Sheds Light on Acquisition of Photosynthesis by Eukaryotes

(2008) Eva C.M. Nowack et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Photosynthetic acclimation: Structural reorganisation of light harvesting antenna - role of redox-dependent phosphorylation of major and minor chlorophyll a/b binding proteins

(2008) Joanna Kargul et al.   FEBS Journal

The Genome of Heliobacterium modesticaldum, a Phototrophic Representative of the Firmicutes Containing the Simplest Photosynthetic Apparatus

(2008) W. M. Sattley 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 photosynthetic alveolate closely related to apicomplexan parasites

(2008) Robert B. Moore et al.   NATURE

Microbially influenced formation of 2,724-million-year-old stromatolites

(2008) Kevin Lepot et al.   Nature Geoscience

Methanogenic archaea: ecologically relevant differences in energy conservation

(2008) Rudolf K. Thauer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Electrons, life and the evolution of Earth's oxygen cycle

(2008) P. G Falkowski et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The origin of plastids

(2008) C.J Howe et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

When did oxygenic photosynthesis evolve?

(2008) R. Buick   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Niche adaptation and genome expansion in the chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina

(2008) W. D. Swingley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The origin of the oxygen-evolving complex

(2007) J RAYMOND et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS