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Freire MÁ. The origins of photosynthetic systems: Clues from the phosphorus and sulphur chemical scenarios. Biosystems 2023; 226:104873. [PMID: 36906114 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.104873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/11/2023]
Abstract
Photosynthesis is the predominant biochemical process of carbon dioxide assimilation in the biosphere. To reduce carbon dioxide into organic compounds, photosynthetic organisms have one or two distinct photochemical reaction centre complexes with which they capture solar energy and generate ATP and reducing power. The core polypeptides of the photosynthetic reaction centres show low homologies but share overlapping structural folds, overall architecture, similar functional properties and highly conserved positions in protein sequences suggesting a common ancestry. However, the other biochemical components of photosynthetic apparatus appear to be a mosaic resulting from different evolutionary trajectories. The current proposal focusses on the nature and biosynthetic pathways of some organic redox cofactors that participate in the photosynthetic systems: quinones, chlorophyll and heme rings and their attached isoprenoid side chains, as well as on the coupled proton motive forces and associated carbon fixation pathways. This perspective highlights clues about the involvement of the phosphorus and sulphur chemistries that would have shaped the different types of photosynthetic systems.
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- Miguel Ángel Freire
- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Av. Vélez Sarsfield 299, CC 495, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina.
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Keable SM, Kölsch A, Simon PS, Dasgupta M, Chatterjee R, Subramanian SK, Hussein R, Ibrahim M, Kim IS, Bogacz I, Makita H, Pham CC, Fuller FD, Gul S, Paley D, Lassalle L, Sutherlin KD, Bhowmick A, Moriarty NW, Young ID, Blaschke JP, de Lichtenberg C, Chernev P, Cheah MH, Park S, Park G, Kim J, Lee SJ, Park J, Tono K, Owada S, Hunter MS, Batyuk A, Oggenfuss R, Sander M, Zerdane S, Ozerov D, Nass K, Lemke H, Mankowsky R, Brewster AS, Messinger J, Sauter NK, Yachandra VK, Yano J, Zouni A, Kern J. Room temperature XFEL crystallography reveals asymmetry in the vicinity of the two phylloquinones in photosystem I. Sci Rep 2021; 11:21787. [PMID: 34750381 PMCID: PMC8575901 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00236-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Photosystem I (PS I) has a symmetric structure with two highly similar branches of pigments at the center that are involved in electron transfer, but shows very different efficiency along the two branches. We have determined the structure of cyanobacterial PS I at room temperature (RT) using femtosecond X-ray pulses from an X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) that shows a clear expansion of the entire protein complex in the direction of the membrane plane, when compared to previous cryogenic structures. This trend was observed by complementary datasets taken at multiple XFEL beamlines. In the RT structure of PS I, we also observe conformational differences between the two branches in the reaction center around the secondary electron acceptors A1A and A1B. The π-stacked Phe residues are rotated with a more parallel orientation in the A-branch and an almost perpendicular confirmation in the B-branch, and the symmetry breaking PsaB-Trp673 is tilted and further away from A1A. These changes increase the asymmetry between the branches and may provide insights into the preferential directionality of electron transfer.
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- Stephen M Keable
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.,Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Molecular Biomimetics, Uppsala University, 75237, Uppsala, Sweden.,Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Linnaeus väg 6 (KBC huset), 90187, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Molecular Biomimetics, Uppsala University, 75237, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Molecular Biomimetics, Uppsala University, 75237, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH, Pohang, 37673, Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH, Pohang, 37673, Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH, Pohang, 37673, Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH, Pohang, 37673, Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH, Pohang, 37673, Korea
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan.,RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan.,RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Molecular Biomimetics, Uppsala University, 75237, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
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Energy transfer and primary charge separation upon selective femtosecond excitation at 810 nm in the reaction center complex from Heliobacterium modesticaldum. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2020.112758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Taylor N, Kassal I. Why are photosynthetic reaction centres dimeric? Chem Sci 2019; 10:9576-9585. [PMID: 32055331 PMCID: PMC6993572 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc03712h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2019] [Accepted: 08/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
All photosynthetic organisms convert solar energy into chemical energy through charge separation in dimeric reaction centres. It is unknown why early reaction centres dimerised and completely displaced their monomeric ancestors. Here, we discuss several proposed explanations for reaction-centre dimerism and conclude-with only weak assumptions about the primordial dimerisation event-that the most probable explanation for the dimerism is that it arose because it enhanced light-harvesting efficiency by deepening the excitonic trap, i.e., by enhancing the rate of exciton transfer from an antenna complex and decreasing the rate of back transfer. This effect would have outweighed the negative effect dimerisation would have had on charge transfer within the reaction centre. Our argument implies that dimerisation likely occurred after the evolution of the first antennas, and it explains why the lower-energy state of the special pair is bright.
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- Natasha Taylor
- School of Chemistry and University of Sydney Nano Institute , University of Queensland , QLD 4072 , Australia
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- School of Chemistry , University of Sydney Nano Institute , University of Sydney , NSW 2006 , Australia .
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Zill JC, Kansy M, Goss R, Alia A, Wilhelm C, Matysik J. 15N photo-CIDNP MAS NMR on both photosystems and magnetic field-dependent 13C photo-CIDNP MAS NMR in photosystem II of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2019; 140:151-171. [PMID: 30194671 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-018-0578-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 08/24/2018] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
Abstract
Diatoms contribute about 20-25% to the global marine productivity and are successful autotrophic players in all aquatic ecosystems, which raises the question whether this performance is caused by differences in their photosynthetic apparatus. Photo-CIDNP MAS NMR presents a unique tool to obtain insights into the reaction centres of photosystems (PS), by selective enhancement of NMR signals from both, the electron donor and the primary electron acceptor molecules. Here, we present the first observation of the solid-state photo-CIDNP effect in the pennate diatoms. In comparison to plant PSs, similar spectral patterns have been observed for PS I at 9.4 T and PS II at 4.7 T in the PSs of Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Studies at different magnetic fields reveal a surprising sign change of the 13C photo-CIDNP MAS NMR signals indicating an alternative arrangement of cofactors which allows to quench the Chl a donor triplet state in contrast to the situation in plant PS II. This unusual quenching mechanism is related to a carotenoid molecule in close vicinity to the Chl a donor. In addition to the photo-CIDNP MAS NMR signals arising from the donor and the primary electron acceptor cofactors, a complete set of signals of the imidazole ring ligating to the magnesium of Chl a can be observed.
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- Jeremias C Zill
- Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 29, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 21-23, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 21-23, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, University of Leiden, Einsteinweg 55, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Leipzig, Härtelstr. 16-18, 04107, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 21-23, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 29, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
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Fufina TY, Leonova MM, Khatypov RA, Khristin AM, Shuvalov VA, Vasilieva LG. Features of Bacteriochlorophylls Axial Ligation in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center of Purple Bacteria. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2019; 84:370-379. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297919040047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Orf GS, Gisriel C, Redding KE. Evolution of photosynthetic reaction centers: insights from the structure of the heliobacterial reaction center. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2018; 138:11-37. [PMID: 29603081 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-018-0503-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2018] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
Abstract
The proliferation of phototrophy within early-branching prokaryotes represented a significant step forward in metabolic evolution. All available evidence supports the hypothesis that the photosynthetic reaction center (RC)-the pigment-protein complex in which electromagnetic energy (i.e., photons of visible or near-infrared light) is converted to chemical energy usable by an organism-arose once in Earth's history. This event took place over 3 billion years ago and the basic architecture of the RC has diversified into the distinct versions that now exist. Using our recent 2.2-Å X-ray crystal structure of the homodimeric photosynthetic RC from heliobacteria, we have performed a robust comparison of all known RC types with available structural data. These comparisons have allowed us to generate hypotheses about structural and functional aspects of the common ancestors of extant RCs and to expand upon existing evolutionary schemes. Since the heliobacterial RC is homodimeric and loosely binds (and reduces) quinones, we support the view that it retains more ancestral features than its homologs from other groups. In the evolutionary scenario we propose, the ancestral RC predating the division between Type I and Type II RCs was homodimeric, loosely bound two mobile quinones, and performed an inefficient disproportionation reaction to reduce quinone to quinol. The changes leading to the diversification into Type I and Type II RCs were separate responses to the need to optimize this reaction: the Type I lineage added a [4Fe-4S] cluster to facilitate double reduction of a quinone, while the Type II lineage heterodimerized and specialized the two cofactor branches, fixing the quinone in the QA site. After the Type I/II split, an ancestor to photosystem I fixed its quinone sites and then heterodimerized to bind PsaC as a new subunit, as responses to rising O2 after the appearance of the oxygen-evolving complex in an ancestor of photosystem II. These pivotal events thus gave rise to the diversity that we observe today.
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- Gregory S Orf
- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
- Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
- Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
- The Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.
- Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.
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Remelli W, Santabarbara S. Excitation and emission wavelength dependence of fluorescence spectra in whole cells of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PPC6803: Influence on the estimation of Photosystem II maximal quantum efficiency. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2018; 1859:1207-1222. [PMID: 30297025 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2018.09.366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2018] [Revised: 09/13/2018] [Accepted: 09/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Abstract
The fluorescence emission spectrum of Synechocystis sp. PPC6803 cells, at room temperature, displays: i) significant bandshape variations when collected under open (F0) and closed (FM) Photosystem II reaction centre conditions; ii) a marked dependence on the excitation wavelength both under F0 and FM conditions, due to the enhancement of phycobilisomes (PBS) emission upon their direct excitation. As a consequence: iii) the ratio of the variable and maximal fluorescence (FV/FM), that is a commonly employed indicator of the maximal photochemical quantum efficiency of PSII (Φpc, PSII), displays a significant dependency on both the excitation and the emission (detection) wavelength; iv) the FV/FM excitation/emission wavelength dependency is due, primarily, to the overlap of PSII emission with that of supercomplexes showing negligible changes in quantum yield upon trap closure, i.e. PSI and a PBS fraction which is incapable to transfer the excitation energy efficiently to core complexes. v) The contribution to the cellular emission and the relative absorption-cross section of PSII, PSI and uncoupled PBS are extracted using a spectral decomposition strategy. It is concluded that vi) Φpc, PSII is generally underestimated from the FV/FM measurements in this organism and, the degree of the estimation bias, which can exceed 50%, depends on the measurement conditions. Spectral modelling based on the decomposed emission/cross-section profiles were extended to other processes typically monitored from steady-state fluorescence measurements, in the presence of an actinic illumination, in particular non-photochemical quenching. It is suggested that vii) the quenching extent is generally underestimated in analogy to FV/FM but that viii) the location of quenching sites can be discriminated based on the combined excitation/emission spectral analysis.
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- William Remelli
- Photosynthesis Research Unit, Centro Studi sulla Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare delle Piante, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Photosynthesis Research Unit, Centro Studi sulla Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare delle Piante, 20133 Milano, Italy.
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Martin WF, Bryant DA, Beatty JT. A physiological perspective on the origin and evolution of photosynthesis. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2018; 42:205-231. [PMID: 29177446 PMCID: PMC5972617 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fux056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
The origin and early evolution of photosynthesis are reviewed from an ecophysiological perspective. Earth's first ecosystems were chemotrophic, fueled by geological H2 at hydrothermal vents and, required flavin-based electron bifurcation to reduce ferredoxin for CO2 fixation. Chlorophyll-based phototrophy (chlorophototrophy) allowed autotrophs to generate reduced ferredoxin without electron bifurcation, providing them access to reductants other than H2. Because high-intensity, short-wavelength electromagnetic radiation at Earth's surface would have been damaging for the first chlorophyll (Chl)-containing cells, photosynthesis probably arose at hydrothermal vents under low-intensity, long-wavelength geothermal light. The first photochemically active pigments were possibly Zn-tetrapyrroles. We suggest that (i) after the evolution of red-absorbing Chl-like pigments, the first light-driven electron transport chains reduced ferredoxin via a type-1 reaction center (RC) progenitor with electrons from H2S; (ii) photothioautotrophy, first with one RC and then with two, was the bridge between H2-dependent chemolithoautotrophy and water-splitting photosynthesis; (iii) photothiotrophy sustained primary production in the photic zone of Archean oceans; (iv) photosynthesis arose in an anoxygenic cyanobacterial progenitor; (v) Chl a is the ancestral Chl; and (vi), anoxygenic chlorophototrophic lineages characterized so far acquired, by horizontal gene transfer, RCs and Chl biosynthesis with or without autotrophy, from the architects of chlorophototrophy-the cyanobacterial lineage.
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- William F Martin
- Institute for Molecular Evolution, University of Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada
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Gisriel C, Sarrou I, Ferlez B, Golbeck JH, Redding KE, Fromme R. Structure of a symmetric photosynthetic reaction center-photosystem. Science 2017; 357:1021-1025. [PMID: 28751471 DOI: 10.1126/science.aan5611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2017] [Accepted: 07/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
Reaction centers are pigment-protein complexes that drive photosynthesis by converting light into chemical energy. It is believed that they arose once from a homodimeric protein. The symmetry of a homodimer is broken in heterodimeric reaction-center structures, such as those reported previously. The 2.2-angstrom resolution x-ray structure of the homodimeric reaction center-photosystem from the phototroph Heliobacterium modesticaldum exhibits perfect C2 symmetry. The core polypeptide dimer and two small subunits coordinate 54 bacteriochlorophylls and 2 carotenoids that capture and transfer energy to the electron transfer chain at the center, which performs charge separation and consists of 6 (bacterio)chlorophylls and an iron-sulfur cluster; unlike other reaction centers, it lacks a bound quinone. This structure preserves characteristics of the ancestral reaction center, providing insight into the evolution of photosynthesis.
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- Christopher Gisriel
- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.,Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.,Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. .,Center of Applied Structural Discovery, Biodesign Institute, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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Rouet R, Langley DB, Schofield P, Christie M, Roome B, Porebski BT, Buckle AM, Clifton BE, Jackson CJ, Stock D, Christ D. Structural reconstruction of protein ancestry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:3897-3902. [PMID: 28356519 PMCID: PMC5393204 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613477114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Ancestral protein reconstruction allows the resurrection and characterization of ancient proteins based on computational analyses of sequences of modern-day proteins. Unfortunately, many protein families are highly divergent and not suitable for sequence-based reconstruction approaches. This limitation is exemplified by the antigen receptors of jawed vertebrates (B- and T-cell receptors), heterodimers formed by pairs of Ig domains. These receptors are believed to have evolved from an extinct homodimeric ancestor through a process of gene duplication and diversification; however molecular evidence has so far remained elusive. Here, we use a structural approach and laboratory evolution to reconstruct such molecules and characterize their interaction with antigen. High-resolution crystal structures of reconstructed homodimeric receptors in complex with hen-egg white lysozyme demonstrate how nanomolar affinity binding of asymmetrical antigen is enabled through selective recruitment and structural plasticity within the receptor-binding site. Our results provide structural evidence in support of long-held theories concerning the evolution of antigen receptors, and provide a blueprint for the experimental reconstruction of protein ancestry in the absence of phylogenetic evidence.
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- Romain Rouet
- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, St. Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
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- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
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- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, St. Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
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- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, St. Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
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- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, St. Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine, St. Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
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- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia;
- Faculty of Medicine, St. Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
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Khadka B, Adeolu M, Blankenship RE, Gupta RS. Novel insights into the origin and diversification of photosynthesis based on analyses of conserved indels in the core reaction center proteins. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2017; 131:159-171. [PMID: 27638319 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-016-0307-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Accepted: 09/07/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The evolution and diversification of different types of photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) remains an important unresolved problem. We report here novel sequence features of the core proteins from Type I RCs (RC-I) and Type II RCs (RC-II) whose analyses provide important insights into the evolution of the RCs. The sequence alignments of the RC-I core proteins contain two conserved inserts or deletions (indels), a 3 amino acid (aa) indel that is uniquely found in all RC-I homologs from Cyanobacteria (both PsaA and PsaB) and a 1 aa indel that is specifically shared by the Chlorobi and Acidobacteria homologs. Ancestral sequence reconstruction provides evidence that the RC-I core protein from Heliobacteriaceae (PshA), lacking these indels, is most closely related to the ancestral RC-I protein. Thus, the identified 3 aa and 1 aa indels in the RC-I protein sequences must have been deletions, which occurred, respectively, in an ancestor of the modern Cyanobacteria containing a homodimeric form of RC-I and in a common ancestor of the RC-I core protein from Chlorobi and Acidobacteria. We also report a conserved 1 aa indel in the RC-II protein sequences that is commonly shared by all homologs from Cyanobacteria but not found in the homologs from Chloroflexi, Proteobacteria and Gemmatimonadetes. Ancestral sequence reconstruction provides evidence that the RC-II subunits lacking this indel are more similar to the ancestral RC-II protein. The results of flexible structural alignments of the indel-containing region of the RC-II protein with the homologous region in the RC-I core protein, which shares structural similarity with the RC-II homologs, support the view that the 1 aa indel present in the RC-II homologs from Cyanobacteria is a deletion, which was not present in the ancestral form of the RC-II protein. Our analyses of the conserved indels found in the RC-I and RC-II proteins, thus, support the view that the earliest photosynthetic lineages with living descendants likely contained only a single RC (RC-I or RC-II), and the presence of both RC-I and RC-II in a linked state, as found in the modern Cyanobacteria, is a derivation from these earlier phototrophs.
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- Bijendra Khadka
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada
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- Department of Biology and Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada.
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Allen JF. A Proposal for Formation of Archaean Stromatolites before the Advent of Oxygenic Photosynthesis. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1784. [PMID: 27895626 PMCID: PMC5108776 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Stromatolites are solid, laminar structures of biological origin. Living examples are sparsely distributed and formed by cyanobacteria, which are oxygenic phototrophs. However, stromatolites were abundant between 3.4 and 2.4 Gyr, prior to the advent of cyanobacteria and oxygenic photosynthesis. Here I propose that many Archaean stromatolites were seeded at points of efflux of hydrogen sulfide from hydrothermal fields into shallow water, while their laminar composition arose from alternating modes of strictly anoxygenic photosynthetic metabolism. These changes were a redox regulatory response of gene expression to changing hydrogen sulfide concentration, which fluctuated with intermittent dilution by tidal action or by rainfall into surface waters. The proposed redox switch between modes of metabolism deposited sequential microbial mats. These mats gave rise to alternating carbonate sediments predicted to retain evidence of their origin in differing ratios of isotopes of carbon and sulfur and in organic content. The mats may have arisen either by replacement of microbial populations or by continuous lineages of protocyanobacteria in which a redox genetic switch selected between Types I and II photosynthetic reaction centers, and thus between photolithoautotrophic and photoorganoheterotrophic metabolism. In the latter case, and by 2.4 Gyr at the latest, a mutation had disabled the redox genetic switch to give simultaneous constitutive expression of both Types I and II reaction centers, and thus to the ability to extract electrons from manganese and then water. By this simple step, the first cyanobacterium had the dramatic advantage of emancipation from limiting supplies of inorganic electron donors, produced free molecular oxygen as a waste product, and initiated the Great Oxidation Event in Earth's history at the transition from the Archaean to the Paleoproterozoic.
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- John F Allen
- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London London, UK
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'Photosystem II: the water splitting enzyme of photosynthesis and the origin of oxygen in our atmosphere'. Q Rev Biophys 2016; 49:e14. [PMID: 27659174 DOI: 10.1017/s0033583516000093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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About 3 billion years ago an enzyme emerged which would dramatically change the chemical composition of our planet and set in motion an unprecedented explosion in biological activity. This enzyme used solar energy to power the thermodynamically and chemically demanding reaction of water splitting. In so doing it provided biology with an unlimited supply of reducing equivalents needed to convert carbon dioxide into the organic molecules of life while at the same time produced oxygen to transform our planetary atmosphere from an anaerobic to an aerobic state. The enzyme which facilitates this reaction and therefore underpins virtually all life on our planet is known as Photosystem II (PSII). It is a pigment-binding, multisubunit protein complex embedded in the lipid environment of the thylakoid membranes of plants, algae and cyanobacteria. Today we have detailed understanding of the structure and functioning of this key and unique enzyme. The journey to this level of knowledge can be traced back to the discovery of oxygen itself in the 18th-century. Since then there has been a sequence of mile stone discoveries which makes a fascinating story, stretching over 200 years. But it is the last few years that have provided the level of detail necessary to reveal the chemistry of water oxidation and O-O bond formation. In particular, the crystal structure of the isolated PSII enzyme has been reported with ever increasing improvement in resolution. Thus the organisational and structural details of its many subunits and cofactors are now well understood. The water splitting site was revealed as a cluster of four Mn ions and a Ca ion surrounded by amino-acid side chains, of which seven provide direct ligands to the metals. The metal cluster is organised as a cubane structure composed of three Mn ions and a Ca2+ linked by oxo-bonds with the fourth Mn ion attached to the cubane. This structure has now been synthesised in a non-protein environment suggesting that it is a totally inorganic precursor for the evolution of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex. In summary, the overall structure of the catalytic site has given a framework on which to build a mechanistic scheme for photosynthetic dioxygen generation and at the same time provide a blue-print and incentive to develop catalysts for artificial photo-electrochemical systems to split water and generate renewable solar fuels.
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Nowicka B, Kruk J. Powered by light: Phototrophy and photosynthesis in prokaryotes and its evolution. Microbiol Res 2016; 186-187:99-118. [PMID: 27242148 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2016.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2015] [Revised: 02/12/2016] [Accepted: 04/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Photosynthesis is a complex metabolic process enabling photosynthetic organisms to use solar energy for the reduction of carbon dioxide into biomass. This ancient pathway has revolutionized life on Earth. The most important event was the development of oxygenic photosynthesis. It had a tremendous impact on the Earth's geochemistry and the evolution of living beings, as the rise of atmospheric molecular oxygen enabled the development of a highly efficient aerobic metabolism, which later led to the evolution of complex multicellular organisms. The mechanism of photosynthesis has been the subject of intensive research and a great body of data has been accumulated. However, the evolution of this process is not fully understood, and the development of photosynthesis in prokaryota in particular remains an unresolved question. This review is devoted to the occurrence and main features of phototrophy and photosynthesis in prokaryotes. Hypotheses concerning the origin and spread of photosynthetic traits in bacteria are also discussed.
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- Beatrycze Nowicka
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland.
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- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland.
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Cardona T. A fresh look at the evolution and diversification of photochemical reaction centers. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2015; 126:111-34. [PMID: 25512103 PMCID: PMC4582080 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-014-0065-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2014] [Accepted: 12/05/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In this review, I reexamine the origin and diversification of photochemical reaction centers based on the known phylogenetic relations of the core subunits, and with the aid of sequence and structural alignments. I show, for example, that the protein folds at the C-terminus of the D1 and D2 subunits of Photosystem II, which are essential for the coordination of the water-oxidizing complex, were already in place in the most ancestral Type II reaction center subunit. I then evaluate the evolution of reaction centers in the context of the rise and expansion of the different groups of bacteria based on recent large-scale phylogenetic analyses. I find that the Heliobacteriaceae family of Firmicutes appears to be the earliest branching of the known groups of phototrophic bacteria; however, the origin of photochemical reaction centers and chlorophyll synthesis cannot be placed in this group. Moreover, it becomes evident that the Acidobacteria and the Proteobacteria shared a more recent common phototrophic ancestor, and this is also likely for the Chloroflexi and the Cyanobacteria. Finally, I argue that the discrepancies among the phylogenies of the reaction center proteins, chlorophyll synthesis enzymes, and the species tree of bacteria are best explained if both types of photochemical reaction centers evolved before the diversification of the known phyla of phototrophic bacteria. The primordial phototrophic ancestor must have had both Type I and Type II reaction centers.
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- Tanai Cardona
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
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Kondo T, Itoh S, Matsuoka M, Azai C, Oh-oka H. Menaquinone as the Secondary Electron Acceptor in the Type I Homodimeric Photosynthetic Reaction Center of Heliobacterium modesticaldum. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:8480-9. [PMID: 26075484 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b03723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The type I photosynthetic reaction center (RC) of heliobacteria (hRC) is a homodimer containing cofactors almost analogous to those in the plant photosystem I (PS I). However, its three-dimensional structure is not yet clear. PS I uses phylloquinone (PhyQ) as a secondary electron acceptor (A1), while the available evidence has suggested that menaquinone (MQ) in hRC has no function as A1. The present study identified a new transient electron spin-polarized electron paramagnetic resonance (ESP-EPR) signal, arising from the radical pair of the oxidized electron donor and the reduced electron acceptor (P800(+)MQ(-)), in the hRC core complex and membranes from Heliobacterium modesticaldum. The ESP signal could be detected at 5-20 K upon flash excitation only after prereduction of the iron-sulfur center, F(X), and was selectively lost by extraction of MQ with diethyl ether. MQ was suggested to be located closer to F(X) than PhyQ in PS I based on the simulation of the unique A/E (A, absorption; E, emission) ESP pattern, the reduction/oxidation rates of MQ, and the power saturation property of the static MQ(-) signal. The result revealed the quinone usage as the secondary electron acceptor in hRC, as in the case of PS I.
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- §Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- §Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- §Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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Harel A, Karkar S, Cheng S, Falkowski P, Bhattacharya D. Deciphering Primordial Cyanobacterial Genome Functions from Protein Network Analysis. Curr Biol 2015; 25:628-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2014] [Revised: 11/05/2014] [Accepted: 12/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Shah VB, Henson WR, Chadha TS, Lakin G, Liu H, Blankenship RE, Biswas P. Linker-free deposition and adhesion of Photosystem I onto nanostructured TiO2 for biohybrid photoelectrochemical cells. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2015; 31:1675-1682. [PMID: 25540979 DOI: 10.1021/la503776b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Photosystem I (PSI) from oxygenic photosynthetic organisms is an attractive sensitizer for nano-biohybrid solar cells as it has a combined light-harvesting and reaction center in one protein complex and operates at a quantum yield close to one in biological systems. Using a linker-free deposition technique enabled by an electrospray system, PSI was coupled to 1-D nanostructured titanium dioxide thin films to fabricate an electrode for a photoelectrochemical cell. After deposition, the surfactant in the PSI aggregate was dissolved in the surfactant-free electrolyte, ensuring that partly hydrophobic PSI was not resuspended and stayed in contact with titanium dioxide. A maximum current density of 4.15 mA cm(-2) was measured after 10 min of electrospray deposition, and this is the highest current density reported so far for PSI-based photoelectrochemical cells. The high current is attributed to 1D nanostructure of titanium dioxide and orientation of the PSI onto the surface, which allows easy transfer of electrons.
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- Vivek B Shah
- Aerosol and Air Quality Research Laboratory, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, ‡Departments of Biology and Chemistry, and §Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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Barber J. Photosystem II: Its function, structure, and implications for artificial photosynthesis. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2014; 79:185-96. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297914030031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The importance of the hydrophilic region of PsbL for the plastoquinone electron acceptor complex of Photosystem II. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1837:1435-46. [PMID: 24576450 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2014] [Revised: 02/12/2014] [Accepted: 02/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The PsbL protein is a 4.5kDa subunit at the monomer-monomer interface of Photosystem II (PS II) consisting of a single membrane-spanning domain and a hydrophilic stretch of ~15 residues facing the cytosolic (or stromal) side of the photosystem. Deletion of conserved residues in the N-terminal region has been used to investigate the importance of this hydrophilic extension. Using Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, three deletion strains: ∆(N6-N8), ∆(P11-V12) and ∆(E13-N15), have been created. The ∆(N6-N8) and ∆(P11-V12) strains remained photoautotrophic but were more susceptible to photodamage than the wild type; however, the ∆(E13-N15) cells had the most severe phenotype. The Δ(E13-N15) mutant showed decreased photoautotrophic growth, a reduced number of PS II centers, impaired oxygen evolution in the presence of PS II-specific electron acceptors, and was highly susceptible to photodamage. The decay kinetics of chlorophyll a variable fluorescence after a single turnover saturating flash and the sensitivity to low concentrations of PS II-directed herbicides in the Δ(E13-N15) strain indicate that the binding of plastoquinone to the QB-binding site had been altered such that the affinity of QB is reduced. In addition, the PS II-specific electron acceptor 2,5-dimethyl-p-benzoquinone was found to inhibit electron transfer through the quinone-acceptor complex of the ∆(E13-N15) strain. The PsbL Y20A mutant was also investigated and it exhibited increased susceptibility to photodamage and increased herbicide sensitivity. Our data suggest that the N-terminal hydrophilic region of PsbL influences forward electron transfer from QA through indirect interactions with the D-E loop of the D1 reaction center protein. Our results further indicate that disruption of interactions between the N-terminal region of PsbL and other PS II subunits or lipids destabilizes PS II dimer formation. This article is part of a special issue entitled: photosynthesis research for sustainability: keys to produce clean energy.
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Khorobrykh A, Dasgupta J, Kolling DRJ, Terentyev V, Klimov VV, Dismukes GC. Evolutionary origins of the photosynthetic water oxidation cluster: bicarbonate permits Mn(2+) photo-oxidation by anoxygenic bacterial reaction centers. Chembiochem 2013; 14:1725-31. [PMID: 24006214 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201300355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The enzyme that catalyzes water oxidation in oxygenic photosynthesis contains an inorganic cluster (Mn4 CaO5 ) that is universally conserved in all photosystem II (PSII) protein complexes. Its hypothesized precursor is an anoxygenic photobacterium containing a type 2 reaction center as photo-oxidant (bRC2, iron-quinone type). Here we provide the first experimental evidence that a native bRC2 complex can catalyze the photo-oxidation of Mn(2+) to Mn(3+) , but only in the presence of bicarbonate concentrations that allows the formation of (bRC2)Mn(2+) (bicarbonate)1-2 complexes. Parallel-mode EPR spectroscopy was used to characterize the photoproduct, (bRC2)Mn(3+) (CO3 (2-) ), based on the g tensor and (55) Mn hyperfine splitting. (Bi)carbonate coordination extends the lifetime of the Mn(3+) photoproduct by slowing charge recombination. Prior electrochemical measurements show that carbonate complexation thermodynamically stabilizes the Mn(3+) product by 0.9-1 V relative to water ligands. A model for the origin of the water oxidation catalyst is presented that proposes chemically feasible steps in the evolution of oxygenic PSIIs, and is supported by literature results on the photoassembly of contemporary PSIIs.
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- Andrei Khorobrykh
- Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, 142290 (Russia)
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Janouskovec J, Sobotka R, Lai DH, Flegontov P, Koník P, Komenda J, Ali S, Prásil O, Pain A, Oborník M, Lukes J, Keeling PJ. Split photosystem protein, linear-mapping topology, and growth of structural complexity in the plastid genome of Chromera velia. Mol Biol Evol 2013; 30:2447-62. [PMID: 23974208 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The canonical photosynthetic plastid genomes consist of a single circular-mapping chromosome that encodes a highly conserved protein core, involved in photosynthesis and ATP generation. Here, we demonstrate that the plastid genome of the photosynthetic relative of apicomplexans, Chromera velia, departs from this view in several unique ways. Core photosynthesis proteins PsaA and AtpB have been broken into two fragments, which we show are independently transcribed, oligoU-tailed, translated, and assembled into functional photosystem I and ATP synthase complexes. Genome-wide transcription profiles support expression of many other highly modified proteins, including several that contain extensions amounting to hundreds of amino acids in length. Canonical gene clusters and operons have been fragmented and reshuffled into novel putative transcriptional units. Massive genomic coverage by paired-end reads, coupled with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and polymerase chain reaction, consistently indicate that the C. velia plastid genome is linear-mapping, a unique state among all plastids. Abundant intragenomic duplication probably mediated by recombination can explain protein splits, extensions, and genome linearization and is perhaps the key driving force behind the many features that defy the conventional ways of plastid genome architecture and function.
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- Jan Janouskovec
- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Sousa FL, Shavit-Grievink L, Allen JF, Martin WF. Chlorophyll biosynthesis gene evolution indicates photosystem gene duplication, not photosystem merger, at the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis. Genome Biol Evol 2013; 5:200-16. [PMID: 23258841 PMCID: PMC3595025 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evs127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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An open question regarding the evolution of photosynthesis is how cyanobacteria came to possess the two reaction center (RC) types, Type I reaction center (RCI) and Type II reaction center (RCII). The two main competing theories in the foreground of current thinking on this issue are that either 1) RCI and RCII are related via lineage divergence among anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria and became merged in cyanobacteria via an event of large-scale lateral gene transfer (also called "fusion" theories) or 2) the two RC types are related via gene duplication in an ancestral, anoxygenic but protocyanobacterial phototroph that possessed both RC types before making the transition to using water as an electron donor. To distinguish between these possibilities, we studied the evolution of the core (bacterio)chlorophyll biosynthetic pathway from protoporphyrin IX (Proto IX) up to (bacterio)chlorophyllide a. The results show no dichotomy of chlorophyll biosynthesis genes into RCI- and RCII-specific chlorophyll biosynthetic clades, thereby excluding models of fusion at the origin of cyanobacteria and supporting the selective-loss hypothesis. By considering the cofactor demands of the pathway and the source genes from which several steps in chlorophyll biosynthesis are derived, we infer that the cell that first synthesized chlorophyll was a cobalamin-dependent, heme-synthesizing, diazotrophic anaerobe.
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- Filipa L Sousa
- Institute of Molecular Evolution, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Mazor Y, Greenberg I, Toporik H, Beja O, Nelson N. The evolution of photosystem I in light of phage-encoded reaction centres. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2013; 367:3400-5. [PMID: 23148266 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Recent structural determinations and metagenomic studies shed light on the evolution of photosystem I (PSI) from the homodimeric reaction centre of primitive bacteria to plant PSI at the top of the evolutionary development. The evolutionary scenario of over 3.5 billion years reveals an increase in the complexity of PSI. This phenomenon of ever-increasing complexity is common to all evolutionary processes that in their advanced stages are highly dependent on fine-tuning of regulatory processes. On the other hand, the recently discovered virus-encoded PSI complexes contain a minimal number of subunits. This may reflect the unique selection scenarios associated with viral replication. It may be beneficial for future engineering of productive processes to utilize 'primitive' complexes that disregard the cellular regulatory processes and to avoid those regulatory constraints when our goal is to divert the process from its original route. In this article, we discuss the evolutionary forces that act on viral reaction centres and the role of the virus-carried photosynthetic genes in the evolution of photosynthesis.
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- Yuval Mazor
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Demand for energy is projected to increase at least twofold by mid-century relative to the present global consumption because of predicted population and economic growth. This demand could be met, in principle, from fossil energy resources, particularly coal. However, the cumulative nature of carbon dioxide (CO(2)) emissions demands that stabilizing the atmospheric CO(2) levels to just twice their pre-anthropogenic values by mid-century will be extremely challenging, requiring invention, development and deployment of schemes for carbon-neutral energy production on a scale commensurate with, or larger than, the entire present-day energy supply from all sources combined. Among renewable and exploitable energy resources, nuclear fusion energy or solar energy are by far the largest. However, in both cases, technological breakthroughs are required with nuclear fusion being very difficult, if not impossible on the scale required. On the other hand, 1 h of sunlight falling on our planet is equivalent to all the energy consumed by humans in an entire year. If solar energy is to be a major primary energy source, then it must be stored and despatched on demand to the end user. An especially attractive approach is to store solar energy in the form of chemical bonds as occurs in natural photosynthesis. However, a technology is needed which has a year-round average conversion efficiency significantly higher than currently available by natural photosynthesis so as to reduce land-area requirements and to be independent of food production. Therefore, the scientific challenge is to construct an 'artificial leaf' able to efficiently capture and convert solar energy and then store it in the form of chemical bonds of a high-energy density fuel such as hydrogen while at the same time producing oxygen from water. Realistically, the efficiency target for such a technology must be 10 per cent or better. Here, we review the molecular details of the energy capturing reactions of natural photosynthesis, particularly the water-splitting reaction of photosystem II and the hydrogen-generating reaction of hydrogenases. We then follow on to describe how these two reactions are being mimicked in physico-chemical-based catalytic or electrocatalytic systems with the challenge of creating a large-scale robust and efficient artificial leaf technology.
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- James Barber
- Division of Molecular Biosciences, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Kargul J, Janna Olmos JD, Krupnik T. Structure and function of photosystem I and its application in biomimetic solar-to-fuel systems. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 169:1639-1653. [PMID: 22784471 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2012.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2012] [Revised: 05/09/2012] [Accepted: 05/11/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Photosystem I (PSI) is one of the most efficient biological macromolecular complexes that converts solar energy into condensed energy of chemical bonds. Despite high structural complexity, PSI operates with a quantum yield close to 1.0 and to date, no man-made synthetic system approached this remarkable efficiency. This review highlights recent developments in dissecting molecular structure and function of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic PSI. It also overviews progress in the application of this complex as a natural photocathode for production of hydrogen within the biomimetic solar-to-fuel nanodevices.
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- Joanna Kargul
- Department of Plant Molecular Physiology, University of Warsaw, ul. Miecznikowa 1, 02-096 Warsaw, Poland.
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Gupta RS. Origin and Spread of Photosynthesis Based upon Conserved Sequence Features in Key Bacteriochlorophyll Biosynthesis Proteins. Mol Biol Evol 2012; 29:3397-412. [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Comparative and Functional Genomics of Anoxygenic Green Bacteria from the Taxa Chlorobi, Chloroflexi, and Acidobacteria. FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS AND EVOLUTION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC SYSTEMS 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1533-2_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Jagannathan B, Shen G, Golbeck JH. The Evolution of Type I Reaction Centers: The Response to Oxygenic Photosynthesis. FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS AND EVOLUTION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC SYSTEMS 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1533-2_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Kargul J, Barber J. Structure and Function of Photosynthetic Reaction Centres. MOLECULAR SOLAR FUELS 2011. [DOI: 10.1039/9781849733038-00107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Extensive biochemical, biophysical, molecular biological and structural studies on a wide range of prokaryotic and eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms has revealed common features of their reaction centres where light induced charge separation and stabilization occurs. There is little doubt that all reaction centres have evolved from a common ancestor and have been optimized to maximum efficiency. As such they provide principles that can be used as a blueprint for developing artificial photo-electrochemical catalytic systems to generate solar fuels. This chapter summarises the common features of the organization of cofactors, electron transfer pathways and protein environments of reaction centres of anoxygenic and oxygenic phototrophs. In particular, the latest molecular details derived from X-ray crystallography are discussed in context of the specific catalytic functions of the Type I and Type II reaction centres.
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- Division of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ UK
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- Division of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ UK
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Nguyen TA, Brescic J, Vinyard DJ, Chandrasekar T, Dismukes GC. Identification of an oxygenic reaction center psbADC operon in the cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421. Mol Biol Evol 2011; 29:35-8. [PMID: 21903678 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Gloeobacter violaceus, the earliest diverging oxyphotobacterium (cyanobacterium) on the 16S ribosomal RNA tree, has five copies of the photosystem II psbA gene encoding the D1 reaction center protein subunit. These copies are widely distributed throughout the 4.6 Mbp genome with only one copy colocalizing with other PSII subunits, in marked contrast to all other psbA genes in all publicly available sequenced genomes. A clustering of two other psb genes around psbA3 (glr2322) is unique to Gloeobacter. We provide experimental proof for the transcription of a psbA3DC operon, encoding three of the five reaction center core subunits (D1, D2, and CP43). This is the first example of a transcribed gene cluster containing the D1/D2 or D1/D2/CP43 subunits of PSII in an oxygenic phototroph (prokaryotic or eukaryotic). Implications for the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis are discussed.
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Nelson N. Photosystems and global effects of oxygenic photosynthesis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2010; 1807:856-63. [PMID: 20955682 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2010] [Revised: 10/10/2010] [Accepted: 10/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Because life on earth is governed by the second law of thermodynamics, it is subject to increasing entropy. Oxygenic photosynthesis, the earth's major producer of both oxygen and organic matter, is a principal player in the development and maintenance of life, and thus results in increased order. The primary steps of oxygenic photosynthesis are driven by four multi-subunit membrane protein complexes: photosystem I, photosystem II, cytochrome b(6)f complex, and F-ATPase. Photosystem II generates the most positive redox potential found in nature and thus capable of extracting electrons from water. Photosystem I generates the most negative redox potential found in nature; thus, it largely determines the global amount of enthalpy in living systems. The recent structural determination of PSII and PSI complexes from cyanobacteria and plants sheds light on the evolutionary forces that shaped oxygenic photosynthesis. This newly available structural information complements knowledge gained from genomic and proteomic data, allowing for a more precise description of the scenario in which the evolution of life systems took place. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Regulation of Electron Transport in Chloroplasts.
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- Department of Biochemistry, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, The Daniella Rich Institute for Structural Biology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
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Srinivasan N, Karyagina I, Bittl R, van der Est A, Golbeck JH. Role of the Hydrogen Bond from Leu722 to the A1A Phylloquinone in Photosystem I. Biochemistry 2009; 48:3315-24. [DOI: 10.1021/bi802340s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Nithya Srinivasan
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, Institut für Experimental Physik, Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D14195 Berlin, Germany, Department of Chemistry, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada, and Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, Institut für Experimental Physik, Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D14195 Berlin, Germany, Department of Chemistry, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada, and Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, Institut für Experimental Physik, Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D14195 Berlin, Germany, Department of Chemistry, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada, and Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, Institut für Experimental Physik, Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D14195 Berlin, Germany, Department of Chemistry, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada, and Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, Institut für Experimental Physik, Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D14195 Berlin, Germany, Department of Chemistry, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada, and Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
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Kern J, Zouni A, Guskov A, Krauß N. Lipids in the Structure of Photosystem I, Photosystem II and the Cytochrome b 6 f Complex. LIPIDS IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2863-1_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Raymond J. The role of horizontal gene transfer in photosynthesis, oxygen production, and oxygen tolerance. Methods Mol Biol 2009; 532:323-38. [PMID: 19271194 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-853-9_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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One of the pivotal events during the early evolution of life was the advent of oxygenic photosynthesis, responsible for producing essentially all of the free oxygen in Earth's atmosphere. This molecular innovation required the development of two tandemly linked photosystems that generate a redox potential strong enough to oxidize water and then funnel those electrons ultimately to cellular processes like carbon and nitrogen fixation. The by-product of this reaction, molecular oxygen, spawned an entirely new realm of enzymatic reactions that served to mitigate its potential toxicity, as well as to take advantage of the free energy available from using O(2) as an electron acceptor. These ensuing events ultimately gave rise to aerobic, multicelled eukaryotes and new levels of biological complexity. Remarkably, instances of horizontal gene transfer have been identified at nearly every step in this transformation of the biosphere, from the evolution and radiation of photosynthesis to the development of biological pathways dependent on oxygen. This chapter discusses the evidence and examples of some of these occurrences that have been elucidated in recent years.
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- Jason Raymond
- School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, CA, USA
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The oxygen in the atmosphere is derived from light-driven oxidation of water at a catalytic centre contained within a multi-subunit enzyme known as photosystem II (PSII). PSII is located in the photosynthetic membranes of plants, algae and cyanobacteria and its oxygen-evolving centre (OEC) consists of four manganese ions and a calcium ion surrounded by a highly conserved protein environment. Recently, the structure of PSII was elucidated by X-ray crystallography thus revealing details of the molecular architecture of the OEC. This structural information, coupled with an extensive knowledge base derived from a wide range of biophysical, biochemical and molecular biological studies, has provided a framework for understanding the chemistry of photosynthetic oxygen generation as well as opening up debate about its evolutionary origin.
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Photosynthesis is the major process that converts solar energy into chemical energy on Earth. Two and a half billion years ago, the ancestors of cyanobacteria were able to use water as electron source for the photosynthetic process, thereby evolving oxygen and changing the atmosphere of our planet Earth. Two large membrane protein complexes, Photosystems I and II, catalyze the primary step in this energy conversion, the light-induced charge separation across the photosynthetic membrane. This chapter describes and compares the structure of two Photosystems and discusses their function in respect to the mechanism of light harvesting, electron transfer and water splitting.
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- Petra Fromme
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1604, USA.
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The oxygen in our atmosphere is derived from and maintained by the water-splitting process of photosynthesis. The enzyme that facilitates this reaction and therefore underpins virtually all life on our planet is known as photosystem II (PSII). It is a multisubunit enzyme embedded in the lipid environment of the thylakoid membranes of plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. Powered by light, PSII catalyzes the chemically and thermodynamically demanding reaction of water splitting. In so doing, it releases molecular oxygen into the atmosphere and provides the reducing equivalents required for the conversion of carbon dioxide into the organic molecules of life. Recently, a fully refined structure of an isolated 700 kDa cyanobacterial dimeric PSII complex was elucidated by X-ray crystallography, which gave organizational and structural details of the 19 subunits (16 intrinsic and 3 extrinsic) that make up each monomer and provided information about the position and protein environments of the many different cofactors it binds. The water-splitting site was revealed as a cluster of four Mn ions and a Ca ion surrounded by amino acid side chains, of which six or seven form direct ligands to the metals. The metal cluster was originally modeled as a cubane-like structure composed of three Mn ions and the Ca (2+) linked by oxo bonds and the fourth Mn attached to the cubane via one of its O atoms. New data from X-ray diffraction and X-ray spectroscopy suggest some alternative arrangements. Nevertheless, all of the models are sufficiently similar to provide a basis for discussing the chemistry by which PSII splits water and makes oxygen.
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- Division of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Loll B, Broser M, Kós PB, Kern J, Biesiadka J, Vass I, Saenger W, Zouni A. Modeling of variant copies of subunit D1 in the structure of photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus. Biol Chem 2008; 389:609-17. [DOI: 10.1515/bc.2008.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1, living in hot springs, the light environment directly regulates expression of genes that encode key components of the photosynthetic multi-subunit protein-pigment complex photosystem II (PSII). Light is not only essential as an energy source to power photosynthesis, but leads to formation of aggressive radicals which induce severe damage of protein subunits and organic cofactors. Photosynthetic organisms develop several protection mechanisms against this photo-damage, such as the differential expression of genes coding for the reaction center subunit D1 in PSII. Testing the expression of the three different genes (psbAI, psbAII, psbAIII) coding for D1 in T. elongatus under culture conditions used for preparing the material used in crystallization of PSII showed that under these conditions only subunit PsbA1 is present. However, exposure to high-light intensity induced partial replacement of PsbA1 with PsbA3. Modeling of the variant amino acids of the three different D1 copies in the 3.0 Å resolution crystal structure of PSII revealed that most of them are in the direct vicinity to redox-active cofactors of the electron transfer chain. Possible structural and mechanistic consequences for electron transfer are discussed.
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Chen M, Zhang Y, Blankenship RE. Nomenclature for membrane-bound light-harvesting complexes of cyanobacteria. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2008; 95:147-54. [PMID: 17912604 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-007-9255-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2007] [Accepted: 09/10/2007] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Accessory chlorophyll-binding proteins (CBP) in cyanobacteria have six transmembrane helices and about 11 conserved His residues that might participate in chlorophyll binding. In various species of cyanobacteria, the CBP proteins bind different types of chlorophylls, including chlorophylls a, b, d and divinyl-chlorophyll a, b. The CBP proteins do not belong to the light-harvesting complexes (LHC) superfamily of plant and algae. The proposed new name of CBP for this class of proteins, which is a unique accessory light-harvesting superfamily in cyanobacteria, clarifies the confusion of names of prochlorophytes chlorophyll binding protein (Pcb), PSII-like light-harvesting proteins and iron-stress-induced protein A (IsiA). The CBP complexes are a member of a larger family that includes the chlorophyll a-binding proteins CP43 and CP47 that function as core antennas of photosystem II.
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
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Pereira-Leal JB, Levy ED, Kamp C, Teichmann SA. Evolution of protein complexes by duplication of homomeric interactions. Genome Biol 2007; 8:R51. [PMID: 17411433 PMCID: PMC1895999 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-4-r51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2006] [Revised: 01/15/2007] [Accepted: 04/05/2007] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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A study of yeast protein complexes, complexes of known three-dimensional structure in the Protein Data Bank and clusters of pair-wise protein interactions in the networks of several organisms revealed that duplication of homomeric interactions often results in the formation of complexes of paralogous proteins. Background Cellular functions are accomplished by the concerted actions of functional modules. The mechanisms driving the emergence and evolution of these modules are still unclear. Here we investigate the evolutionary origins of protein complexes, modules in physical protein-protein interaction networks. Results We studied protein complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, complexes of known three-dimensional structure in the Protein Data Bank and clusters of pairwise protein interactions in the networks of several organisms. We found that duplication of homomeric interactions, a large class of protein interactions, frequently results in the formation of complexes of paralogous proteins. This route is a common mechanism for the evolution of complexes and clusters of protein interactions. Our conclusions are further confirmed by theoretical modelling of network evolution. We propose reasons for why this is favourable in terms of structure and function of protein complexes. Conclusion Our study provides the first insight into the evolution of functional modularity in protein-protein interaction networks, and the origins of a large class of protein complexes.
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- Jose B Pereira-Leal
- Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Apartado 14, P-2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
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- Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Federal Agency for Sera and Vaccines, Paul-Ehrlich-Straße, 63225 Langen, Germany
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
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Bryant DA, Costas AMG, Maresca JA, Chew AGM, Klatt CG, Bateson MM, Tallon LJ, Hostetler J, Nelson WC, Heidelberg JF, Ward DM. Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum: an aerobic phototrophic Acidobacterium. Science 2007; 317:523-6. [PMID: 17656724 DOI: 10.1126/science.1143236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Only five bacterial phyla with members capable of chlorophyll (Chl)-based phototrophy are presently known. Metagenomic data from the phototrophic microbial mats of alkaline siliceous hot springs in Yellowstone National Park revealed the existence of a distinctive bacteriochlorophyll (BChl)-synthesizing, phototrophic bacterium. A highly enriched culture of this bacterium grew photoheterotrophically, synthesized BChls a and c under oxic conditions, and had chlorosomes and type 1 reaction centers. "Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum" is a BChl-producing member of the poorly characterized phylum Acidobacteria.
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- Donald A Bryant
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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The reaction center (RC) of heliobacteria contains iron-sulfur centers as terminal electron acceptors, analogous to those of green sulfur bacteria as well as photosystem I in cyanobacteria and higher plants. Therefore, they all belong to the so-called type 1 RCs, in contrast to the type 2 RCs of purple bacteria and photosystem II containing quinone molecules. Although the architecture of the heliobacterial RC as a protein complex is still unknown, it forms a homodimer made up of two identical PshA core proteins, where two symmetrical electron transfer pathways along the C2 axis are assumed to be equally functional. Electrons are considered to be transferred from membrane-bound cytochrome c (PetJ) to a special pair P800, a chlorophyll a-like molecule A0, (a quinone molecule A1) and a [4Fe-4S] center Fx and, finally, to 2[4Fe-4S] centers FA/FB. No definite evidence has been obtained for the presence of functional quinone acceptor A1. An additional interesting point is that the electron transfer reaction from cytochrome c to P800 proceeds in a collisional mode. It is highly dependent on the temperature, ion strength and/or viscosity in a reaction medium, suggesting that a heme-binding moiety fluctuates in an aqueous phase with its amino-terminus anchored to membranes.
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- Hirozo Oh-oka
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
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Tokaji Z, Tandori J, Maróti P. Light- and Redox-dependent Thermal Stability of the Reaction Center of the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)0750605lardts2.0.co2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Juneau P, Harrison PJ. Comparison by PAM Fluorometry of Photosynthetic Activity of Nine Marine Phytoplankton Grown Under Identical Conditions¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2005.tb00239.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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