Cited by 238Paleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsGeochemistry and Elemental AnalysisPhotosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 59 of the 62 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis before the rise of cyanobacteria

Open access

Johnson, Jena E., Webb, Samuel M., Thomas, Katherine, Ono, Shuhei, Kirschvink, Joseph L., Fischer, Woodward W.·2013·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI 10.1073/pnas.1305530110PMC PMC3710856

Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

The emergence of oxygen-producing (oxygenic) photosynthesis fundamentally transformed our planet; however, the processes that led to the evolution of biological water splitting have remained largely unknown. To illuminate this history, we examined the behavior of the ancient Mn cycle using newly obtained scientific drill cores through an early Paleoproterozoic succession (2.415 Ga) preserved in South Africa. These strata contain substantial Mn enrichments (up to ∼17 wt %) well before those associated with the rise of oxygen such as the ∼2.2 Ga Kalahari Mn deposit. Using microscale X-ray spectroscopic techniques coupled to optical and electron microscopy and carbon isotope ratios, we demonstrate that the Mn is hosted exclusively in carbonate mineral phases derived from reduction of Mn oxides during diagenesis of primary sediments. Additional observations of independent proxies for O2--multiple S isotopes (measured by isotope-ratio mass spectrometry and secondary ion mass spectrometry) and redox-sensitive detrital grains--reveal that the original Mn-oxide phases were not produced by reactions with O2, which points to a different high-potential oxidant. These results show that the oxidative branch of the Mn cycle predates the rise of oxygen, and provide strong support for the hypothesis that the water-oxidizing complex of photosystem II evolved from a former transitional photosystem capable of single-electron oxidation reactions of Mn.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1073/pnas.1305530110

Cites

59 of 59 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å
Umena, Y., Kawakami, K., Shen, J., & Kamiya, N. (2011) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature09913 · Cited by 3,920
Early oxidation of organic matter in pelagic sediments of the eastern equatorial Atlantic: suboxic diagenesis
Froelich, P. N., Klinkhammer, G. P., Bender, M. L., Luedtke, N. A., Heath, G. R., Cullen, D., Dauphin, P., Hammond, D., Hartman, B., & Maynard, V. (1979) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/0016-7037(79)90095-4 · Cited by 3,368
Architecture of the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Center
Ferreira, K. N., Iverson, T. M., Maghlaoui, K., Barber, J. P., & Iwata, S. (2004) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1093087 · Cited by 3,330
Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria
Ettwig, K. F., Butler, M. K., Paslier, D. L., Pelletier, É., Mangenot, S., Kuypers, M. M. M., Schreiber, F., Dutilh, B. E., Zedelius, J., de Beer, D., et al. (2010) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature08883 · Cited by 1,864
The Chemical Evolution of the Atmosphere and Oceans
Holland, H. D. (1984) · doi:10.1515/9780691220239 · Cited by 1,836
Atmospheric Influence of Earth's Earliest Sulfur Cycle
Farquhar, J., Bao, H., & Thiemens, M. (2000) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.289.5480.756 · Cited by 1,805
Water-Splitting Chemistry of Photosystem II
McEvoy, J. P., & Brudvig, G. W. (2006) · Chemical Reviews · doi:10.1021/cr0204294 · Cited by 1,542
Dating the rise of atmospheric oxygen
Bekker, A., Holland, H. D., Wang, P.-L., Rumble, D., Stein, H. J., Hannah, J. L., Coetzee, L. L., & Beukes, N. J. (2004) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature02260 · Cited by 1,435 · cited 3×
“32 Ga (1, 2)—an interval supported by a broad range of geologic evidence (19, 25, 33).”
Background
Archean Molecular Fossils and the Early Rise of Eukaryotes
Brocks, J. J., Logan, G. A., Buick, R., & Summons, R. E. (1999) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.285.5430.1033 · Cited by 1,275
A Whiff of Oxygen Before the Great Oxidation Event?
Anbar, A. D., Duan, Y., Lyons, T. W., Arnold, G. L., Kendall, B., Creaser, R. A., Kaufman, A. J., Gordon, G. W., Scott, C., Garvin, J., et al. (2007) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1140325 · Cited by 1,024

Show all 62 references

Research works printed but not linked: 3

Beukes N Klein C (1992) Models for iron-formation deposition. The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study eds Schopf JW Klein C (Cambridge Univ Press) pp 147–156.
T Miyano, NJ Beukes, Phase relations of stilpnomelane, ferri-annite, and riebeckite in very low-grade metamorphosed iron-formations. S Afr J Geol 87, 111–124 (1984).
Kasting JF Holland HD Kump LR (1992) Atmospheric evolution: The rise of oxygen. The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study eds Schopf WJ Klein C (Cambridge Univ Press Cambridge UK) pp 1185–1188.

Sorted by citations

Mn4Ca Cluster in Photosynthesis: Where and How Water is Oxidized to Dioxygen
Yano, J., & Yachandra, V. K. (2014) · Chemical Reviews · doi:10.1021/cr4004874 · Cited by 685
Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event
Planavsky, N. J., Asael, D., Hofmann, A., Reinhard, C. T., Lalonde, S. V., Knudsen, A., Wang, X., Ossa Ossa, F., Pecoits, E., Smith, A. J. B., et al. (2014) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/ngeo2122 · Cited by 615
Timing and tempo of the great oxidation event
Gumsley, A. P., Chamberlain, K. R., Bleeker, W., Söderlund, U., de Kock, M. O., Larsson, E. R., & Bekker, A. (2017) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1608824114 · Cited by 527
A critical review of mineral-microbe interaction and co-evolution: Mechanisms and applications
Dong, H., Huang, L., Zhao, L., Zeng, Q., Liu, X., Sheng, Y., Shi, L., Wu, G., Jiang, H., Li, F., et al. (2022) · National Science Review · doi:10.1093/nsr/nwac128 · Cited by 472
Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
Fischer, W. W., Hemp, J., & Johnson, J. E. (2016) · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-060313-054810 · Cited by 438
Self-citation
Rapid oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago
Luo, G., Ono, S., Beukes, N. J., Wang, D. T., Xie, S., & Summons, R. E. (2016) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600134 · Cited by 371
“There is a gap of ~150 million years (My) between these S-MDF signatures and the youngest S-MIF signals found in pyrite in the Brockman Iron Formation in Western Australia (1, 38) and a gap of ~100 My between S-MIF in the Koegas Formation in theGriqualandWestBasin in SouthAfrica (39).”
BackgroundSelf-citation
On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria
Soo, R. M., Hemp, J., Parks, D. H., Fischer, W. W., & Hugenholtz, P. (2017) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aal3794 · Cited by 383
Self-citation
Manganese mineralogy and diagenesis in the sedimentary rock record
Johnson, J. E., Webb, S. M., Ma, C., & Fischer, W. W. (2016) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.10.027 · Cited by 245
Self-citation
Quantifying the areal extent and dissolved oxygen concentrations of Archean oxygen oases
Olson, S. L., Kump, L. R., & Kasting, J. F. (2013) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.08.012 · Cited by 239
Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution
Robbins, L. J., Lalonde, S. V., Planavsky, N. J., Partin, C. A., Reinhard, C. T., Kendall, B., Scott, C., Hardisty, D. S., Gill, B. C., Alessi, D. S., et al. (2016) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.10.013 · Cited by 227
The role of biology in planetary evolution: cyanobacterial primary production in low‐oxygen Proterozoic oceans
Hamilton, T. L., Bryant, D. A., & Macalady, J. L. (2015) · Environmental Microbiology · doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13118 · Cited by 197
Crown group Oxyphotobacteria postdate the rise of oxygen
Shih, P. M., Hemp, J., Ward, L. M., Matzke, N. J., & Fischer, W. W. (2016) · Geobiology · doi:10.1111/gbi.12200 · Cited by 174
Self-citation
Fully oxygenated water columns over continental shelves before the Great Oxidation Event
Ostrander, C. M., Nielsen, S. G., Owens, J. D., Kendall, B., Gordon, G. W., Romaniello, S. J., & Anbar, A. D. (2019) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0309-7 · Cited by 156
O2constraints from Paleoproterozoic detrital pyrite and uraninite
Johnson, J. E., Gerpheide, A., Lamb, M. P., & Fischer, W. W. (2014) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b30949.1 · Cited by 154
Self-citation
Early Archean origin of Photosystem II
Cardona, T., Sánchez‐Baracaldo, P., Rutherford, A. W., & Larkum, A. W. (2019) · Geobiology · doi:10.1111/gbi.12322 · Cited by 144
A physiological perspective on the origin and evolution of photosynthesis
Martin, W. F., Bryant, D. A., & Beatty, J. T. (2017) · FEMS Microbiology Reviews · doi:10.1093/femsre/fux056 · Cited by 158
Oxidation of manganese in an ancient aquifer, Kimberley formation, Gale crater, Mars
Lanza, N., Wiens, R. C., Arvidson, R. E., Clark, B. C., Fischer, W. W., Gellert, R., Grotzinger, J. P., Hurowitz, J. A., McLennan, S. M., Morris, R. V., et al. (2016) · Geophysical Research Letters · doi:10.1002/2016gl069109 · Cited by 145
Self-citation
Light-driven anaerobic microbial oxidation of manganese
Daye, M., Klepac-Ceraj, V., Pajusalu, M., Rowland, S., Farrell-Sherman, A., Beukes, N., Tamura, N., Fournier, G., & Bosak, T. (2019) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1804-0 · Cited by 145
Manganese and iron geochemistry in sediments underlying the redox-stratified Fayetteville Green Lake
Herndon, E. M., Havig, J. R., Singer, D. M., McCormick, M. L., & Kump, L. R. (2018) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2018.04.013 · Cited by 141
The Martian subsurface as a potential window into the origin of life
Michalski, J. R., Onstott, T. C., Mojzsis, S. J., Mustard, J. F., Chan, Q. H. S., Niles, P. B., & Johnson, S. S. (2017) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0015-2 · Cited by 144
Origin and Evolution of Water Oxidation before the Last Common Ancestor of the Cyanobacteria
Cardona, T., Murray, J. W., & Rutherford, A. W. (2015) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msv024 · Cited by 130
Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life
Lyons, T. W., Tino, C., Fournier, G. P., Anderson, R. E., Leavitt, W. D., Konhauser, K. O., & Stüeken, E. E. (2024) · Nature Reviews Microbiology · doi:10.1038/s41579-024-01044-y · Cited by 141
How did life survive Earth's great oxygenation?
Fischer, W. W., Hemp, J., & Valentine, J. S. (2016) · Current Opinion in Chemical Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.03.013 · Cited by 127
Self-citation
Water oxidation catalysis – role of redox and structural dynamics in biological photosynthesis and inorganic manganese oxides
Zaharieva, I., González‐Flores, D., Asfari, B., Pasquini, C., Mohammadi, M. R., Klingan, K., Žižak, I., Loos, S., Chernev, P., & Dau, H. (2016) · Energy & Environmental Science · doi:10.1039/c6ee01222a · Cited by 123
Photochemistry of Sulfur Dioxide and the Origin of Mass-Independent Isotope Fractionation in Earth's Atmosphere
Ono, S. (2017) · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012324 · Cited by 119
Self-citation
Evaluating a primary carbonate pathway for manganese enrichments in reducing environments
Wittkop, C. A., Swanner, E. D., Grengs, A., Lambrecht, N., Fakhraee, M., Myrbo, A. E., Bray, A. W., Poulton, S. W., & Katsev, S. (2020) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116201 · Cited by 123
Paleo-Rock-Hosted Life on Earth and the Search on Mars: A Review and Strategy for Exploration
Onstott, T. C., Ehlmann, B. L., Sapers, H. M., Coleman, M., Ivarsson, M., Marlow, J. J., Neubeck, A., & Niles, P. (2019) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2018.1960 · Cited by 121
High manganese concentrations in rocks at Gale crater, Mars
Lanza, N., Fischer, W. W., Wiens, R. C., Grotzinger, J. P., Ollila, A., Cousin, A., Anderson, R. B., Clark, B. C., Gellert, R., Mangold, N., et al. (2014) · Geophysical Research Letters · doi:10.1002/2014gl060329 · Cited by 115
Self-citation
Real-Time Manganese Phase Dynamics during Biological and Abiotic Manganese Oxide Reduction
Johnson, J. E., Savalia, P., Davis, R. C., Kocar, B. D., Webb, S. M., Nealson, K. H., & Fischer, W. W. (2016) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b04834 · Cited by 115
Self-citation
Modeling the signature of sulfur mass-independent fractionation produced in the Archean atmosphere
Claire, M. W., Kasting, J. F., Domagal-Goldman, S. D., Stüeken, E. E., Buick, R., & Meadows, V. S. (2014) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.06.032 · Cited by 108
Timescales of Oxygenation Following the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
Ward, L. M., Kirschvink, J. L., & Fischer, W. W. (2015) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1007/s11084-015-9460-3 · Cited by 112
Self-citation
Questioning the biogenicity of Neoproterozoic superheavy pyrite by SIMS
Cui, H., Kitajima, K., Spicuzza, M. J., Fournelle, J., Denny, A. C., Ishida, A., Zhang, F., & Valley, J. W. (2018) · American Mineralogist · doi:10.2138/am-2018-6489 · Cited by 103
Earth's First Redox Revolution
Ostrander, C. M., Johnson, A. C., & Anbar, A. D. (2021) · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-072020-055249 · Cited by 102
An abiotic source of Archean hydrogen peroxide and oxygen that pre-dates oxygenic photosynthesis
He, H., Wu, X. G., Xian, H., Zhu, J., Yang, Y., Lv, Y., Li, Y., & Konhauser, K. O. (2021) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26916-2 · Cited by 105
Biogenic manganese oxide nanoparticle formation by a multimeric multicopper oxidase Mnx
Romano, C. A., Zhou, M., Song, Y., Wysocki, V. H., Dohnalkova, A. C., Kovarik, L., Paša-Tolić, L., & Tebo, B. M. (2017) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00896-8 · Cited by 102
Carbonates before skeletons: A database approach
Cantine, M. D., Knoll, A. H., & Bergmann, K. (2019) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.103065 · Cited by 98
Photoferrotrophy: Remains of an Ancient Photosynthesis in Modern Environments
Camacho, A., Walter, X. A., Picazo, A., & Zopfi, J. (2017) · Frontiers in Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.00323 · Cited by 101
Earth’s Great Oxidation Event facilitated by the rise of sedimentary phosphorus recycling
Alcott, L., Mills, B. J. W., Bekker, A., & Poulton, S. W. (2022) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/s41561-022-00906-5 · Cited by 95
The History of Ocean Oxygenation
Reinhard, C. T., & Planavsky, N. J. (2022) · Annual Review of Marine Science · doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-031721-104005 · Cited by 91
Primary Productivity Was Limited by Electron Donors Prior to the Advent of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
Ward, L. M., Rasmussen, B., & Fischer, W. W. (2018) · Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences · doi:10.1029/2018jg004679 · Cited by 95
Self-citation
Manganese oxide shuttling in pre-GOE oceans – evidence from molybdenum and iron isotopes
Kurzweil, F., Wille, M., Gantert, N., Beukes, N. J., & Schoenberg, R. (2016) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.013 · Cited by 90
Manganese oxides, Earth surface oxygenation, and the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis
Robbins, L. J., Fakhraee, M., Smith, A. J. B., Bishop, B., Swanner, E. D., Peacock, C. L., Wang, C., Planavsky, N. J., Reinhard, C. T., Crowe, S. A., et al. (2023) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104368 · Cited by 96
Rate and mechanism of the photoreduction of birnessite (MnO 2 ) nanosheets
Marafatto, F. F., Strader, M. L., Holguera, J. G., Schwartzberg, A. M., Gilbert, B., & Peña, J. (2015) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1421018112 · Cited by 89
Manganese in Marine Microbiology
Hansel, C. M. (2017) · Advances in microbial physiology/Advances in Microbial Physiology · doi:10.1016/bs.ampbs.2017.01.005 · Cited by 93
Development of in situ sulfur four-isotope analysis with multiple Faraday cup detectors by SIMS and application to pyrite grains in a Paleoproterozoic glaciogenic sandstone
Ushikubo, T., Williford, K. H., Farquhar, J. D., Johnston, D. T., Kranendonk, M. J. V., & Valley, J. W. (2014) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.06.006 · Cited by 85
Neoarchean carbonate–associated sulfate records positive Δ 33 S anomalies
Paris, G., Adkins, J. F., Sessions, A. L., Webb, S. M., & Fischer, W. W. (2014) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1258211 · Cited by 85
Self-citation
Aerobic iron and manganese cycling in a redox-stratified Mesoarchean epicontinental sea
Ossa, F. O., Hofmann, A., Wille, M., Spangenberg, J. E., Bekker, A., Poulton, S. W., Eickmann, B., & Schoenberg, R. (2018) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.07.044 · Cited by 82
Manganese and the Evolution of Photosynthesis
Fischer, W. W., Hemp, J., & Johnson, J. E. (2015) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1007/s11084-015-9442-5 · Cited by 83
Self-citation
Powered by light: Phototrophy and photosynthesis in prokaryotes and its evolution
Nowicka, B., & Kruk, J. (2016) · Microbiological Research · doi:10.1016/j.micres.2016.04.001 · Cited by 82
Reexamination of 2.5-Ga “whiff” of oxygen interval points to anoxic ocean before GOE
Slotznick, S. P., Johnson, J. E., Rasmussen, B., Raub, T. D., Webb, S. M., Zi, J.-W., Kirschvink, J. L., & Fischer, W. W. (2022) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.abj7190 · Cited by 81
Self-citation
Redox Cycling Driven Transformation of Layered Manganese Oxides to Tunnel Structures
Jung, H., Taillefert, M., Sun, J., Wang, Q., Borkiewicz, O. J., Liu, P., Yang, L., Chen, S., Chen, H., & Tang, Y. (2020) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.9b12266 · Cited by 78
SQUID–SIMS is a useful approach to uncover primary signals in the Archean sulfur cycle
Fischer, W. W., Fike, D. A., Johnson, J. E., Raub, T. D., Guan, Y., Kirschvink, J. L., & Eiler, J. M. (2014) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1322577111 · Cited by 78
Self-citation
The evolution and productivity of carbon fixation pathways in response to changes in oxygen concentration over geological time
Ward, L. M., & Shih, P. M. (2019) · Free Radical Biology and Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.01.049 · Cited by 80
Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Microbial EvolutionPreprint
Knoll, A. H. (2015) · Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology · doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a018093 · Cited by 78
Time-resolved comparative molecular evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis
Oliver, T. J., Sánchez‐Baracaldo, P., Larkum, A. W. D., Rutherford, A. W., & Cardona, T. (2021) · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics · doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2021.148400 · Cited by 74
Anoxic photogeochemical oxidation of manganese carbonate yields manganese oxide
Liu, W., Hao, J., Elzinga, E. J., Piotrowiak, P., Nanda, V., Yee, N., & Falkowski, P. G. (2020) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2002175117 · Cited by 74
Fundamental molecules of life are pigments which arose and co-evolved as a response to the thermodynamic imperative of dissipating the prevailing solar spectrum
Michaelian, K., & Simeonov, A. (2015) · Biogeosciences · doi:10.5194/bg-12-4913-2015 · Cited by 74
Sulfur and carbon isotopic evidence for metabolic pathway evolution and a four-stepped Earth system progression across the Archean and Paleoproterozoic
Havig, J. R., Hamilton, T. L., Bachan, A., & Kump, L. R. (2017) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.06.014 · Cited by 78
From the selfish gene to selfish metabolism: Revisiting the central dogma
de Lorenzo, V. (2014) · BioEssays · doi:10.1002/bies.201300153 · Cited by 73
Carbon and sulfur isotopic signatures of ancient life and environment at the microbial scale: Neoarchean shales and carbonates
Williford, K. H., Ushikubo, T., Lepot, K., Kitajima, K., Hallmann, C., Spicuzza, M. J., Kozdon, R., Eigenbrode, J. L., Summons, R. E., & Valley, J. W. (2015) · Geobiology · doi:10.1111/gbi.12163 · Cited by 69
Multifaceted aspects of charge transfer
Derr, J. B., Tamayo, J., Clark, J. A., Morales, M., Mayther, M. F., Espinoza, E. M., Rybicka‐Jasińska, K., & Vullev, V. I. (2020) · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · doi:10.1039/d0cp01556c · Cited by 69
Products of the iron cycle on the early Earth
Tosca, N. J., Jiang, C. Z., Rasmussen, B., & Muhling, J. R. (2019) · Free Radical Biology and Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.05.005 · Cited by 71
The trouble with oxygen: The ecophysiology of extant phototrophs and implications for the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis
Hamilton, T. L. (2019) · Free Radical Biology and Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.05.003 · Cited by 67
A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
Davín, A., Woodcroft, B. J., Soo, R. M., Morel, B., Murali, R., Schrempf, D., Clark, J., Álvarez-Carretero, S., Boussau, B., Moody, E. R. R., et al. (2025) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.adp1853 · Cited by 72
Self-citation
Light-driven formation of manganese oxide by today’s photosystem II supports evolutionarily ancient manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis
Chernev, P., Fischer-Holzhausen, S., Hoffmann, J., Oliver, N., Assunção, R., Yu, B., Burnap, R. L., Zaharieva, I., Nürnberg, D. J., Haumann, M., et al. (2020) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19852-0 · Cited by 65
Photosynthesis and early Earth
Shih, P. M. (2015) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.046 · Cited by 56
Mn oxide formation by phototrophs: Spatial and temporal patterns, with evidence of an enzymatic superoxide-mediated pathway
Chaput, D. L., Fowler, A. J., Seo, O., Duhn, K., Hansel, C. M., & Santelli, C. M. (2019) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54403-8 · Cited by 56
From manganese oxidation to water oxidation: assembly and evolution of the water-splitting complex in photosystem II
Oliver, N., Avramov, A. P., Nürnberg, D. J., Dau, H., & Burnap, R. L. (2022) · Photosynthesis Research · doi:10.1007/s11120-022-00912-z · Cited by 57
Correlation of the stratigraphic cover of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons recording the lead up to Paleoproterozoic Icehouse and the GOE
Bekker, A., Krapež, B., & Karhu, J. A. (2020) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103389 · Cited by 56
Petrography and Geochemistry of the Carboniferous Ortokarnash Manganese Deposit in the Western Kunlun Mountains, Xinjiang Province, China: Implications for the Depositional Environment and the Origin of Mineralization
Zhang, B.-L., Wang, C., Robbins, L. J., Zhang, L., Konhauser, K. O., Dong, Z., Li, W.-J., Peng, Z., & Zheng, M. (2020) · Economic Geology · doi:10.5382/econgeo.4729 · Cited by 55
Photocatalytic oxidation of dissolved Mn(II) on natural iron oxide minerals
Jung, H., Xu, X., Wan, B., Wang, Q., Borkiewicz, O. J., Li, Y., Chen, H., Lu, A., & Tang, Y. (2021) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2021.07.023 · Cited by 53
The Evolution and Evolvability of Photosystem II
Oliver, T., Kim, T. D., Trinugroho, J. P., Cordón-Preciado, V., Wijayatilake, N., Bhatia, A., Rutherford, A. W., & Cardona, T. (2023) · Annual Review of Plant Biology · doi:10.1146/annurev-arplant-070522-062509 · Cited by 52
Unusual manganese enrichment in the Mesoarchean Mozaan Group, Pongola Supergroup, South Africa
Ossa Ossa, F., Hofmann, A., Vidal, O., Kramers, J. D., Belyanin, G., & Cavalazzi, B. (2016) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2016.06.009 · Cited by 52
How manganese empowered life with dioxygen (and vice versa)
Lingappa, U. F., Monteverde, D. R., Magyar, J. S., Valentine, J. S., & Fischer, W. W. (2019) · Free Radical Biology and Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.01.036 · Cited by 56
Self-citation
Regulation of antioxidant defense and glyoxalase systems in cyanobacteria
Rai, R., Singh, S., Rai, K. K., Raj, A., Sriwastaw, S., & Rai, L. C. (2021) · Plant Physiology and Biochemistry · doi:10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.09.037 · Cited by 51
Evidence for the oxidation of Earth’s crust from the evolution of manganese minerals
Hummer, D. R., Golden, J. J., Hystad, G., Downs, R. T., Eleish, A. M., Liu, C., Ralph, J., Morrison, S. M., Meyer, M., & Hazen, R. M. (2022) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28589-x · Cited by 55
Metal/metalloid and phosphorus characteristics in porewater associated with manganese geochemistry: A case study in the Jiulong River Estuary, China
Pan, F., Liu, H., Guo, Z., Cai, Y., Fu, Y., Wu, J., Wang, B., & Gao, A. (2019) · Environmental Pollution · doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113134 · Cited by 50
Controls on O2Production in Cyanobacterial Mats and Implications for Earth's Oxygenation
Dick, G. J., Grim, S. L., & Klatt, J. M. (2018) · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010035 · Cited by 47
Iron: Life’s primeval transition metal
Johnson, J. E., Present, T. M., & Valentine, J. S. (2024) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2318692121 · Cited by 52
Self-citation
Petrographic and geochemical characterization of the Lower Transvaal Supergroup stromatolitic dolostones (Kanye Basin, Botswana)
Franchi, F. (2018) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.02.018 · Cited by 46
Hematite replacement of iron-bearing precursor sediments in the 3.46-b.y.-old Marble Bar Chert, Pilbara craton, Australia
Rasmussen, B., Krapež, B., & Muhling, J. R. (2014) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b31049.1 · Cited by 45
Oxidoreductases and metal cofactors in the functioning of the earth
Mele, B. H., Monticelli, M., Leone, S., Bastoni, D., Barosa, B., Cascone, M., Migliaccio, F., Montemagno, F., Ricciardelli, A., Tonietti, L., et al. (2023) · Essays in Biochemistry · doi:10.1042/ebc20230012 · Cited by 45
Mineral paragenesis in Paleozoic manganese ore deposits: Depositional versus post-depositional formation processes
Yan, H., Pi, D.-H., Jiang, S., Mao, J., Xu, L., Yang, X., Hao, W., Mänd, K., Li, L., Konhauser, K. O., et al. (2022) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2022.03.030 · Cited by 42
Mobility of nutrients and trace metals during weathering in the late Archean
Hao, J., Sverjensky, D. A., & Hazen, R. M. (2017) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.05.003 · Cited by 40
Environmental insights from high‐resolution (SIMS) sulfur isotope analyses of sulfides in Proterozoic microbialites with diverse mat textures
Gomes, M. L., Fike, D. A., Bergmann, K., Jones, C. M., & Knoll, A. H. (2017) · Geobiology · doi:10.1111/gbi.12265 · Cited by 40
Coupled anaerobic and aerobic microbial processes for Mn-carbonate precipitation: A realistic model of inorganic carbon pool formation
Li, Y., Wang, X., Li, Y., Duan, J., Jia, H., Ding, H., Lu, A., Wang, C., Nie, Y., & Wu, X. (2019) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2019.02.002 · Cited by 39
Archean banded iron formations of India
Mukhopadhyay, J. (2019) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102927 · Cited by 39
Hydrothermally induced 34S enrichment in pyrite as an alternative explanation of the Late-Devonian sulfur isotope excursion in South China
Yan, H., Pi, D.-H., Jiang, S., Hao, W., Cui, H., Robbins, L. J., Mänd, K., Li, L., Planavsky, N. J., & Konhauser, K. O. (2020) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2020.05.017 · Cited by 39
Bulk and grain-scale minor sulfur isotope data reveal complexities in the dynamics of Earth’s oxygenation
Izon, G., Luo, G., Uveges, B. T. I., Beukes, N. J., Kitajima, K., Ono, S., Valley, J. W., Ma, X., & Summons, R. E. (2022) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2025606119 · Cited by 39
Self-citation
Reconciling discrepant minor sulfur isotope records of the Great Oxidation Event
Uveges, B. T. I., Izon, G., Ono, S., Beukes, N. J., & Summons, R. E. (2023) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-023-35820-w · Cited by 40
Self-citation
Sequestration and oxidation of heavy metals mediated by Mn(II) oxidizing microorganisms in the aquatic environment
Huang, Y., Huangfu, X., Ma, C., & Liu, Z. (2023) · Chemosphere · doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138594 · Cited by 37
The photogeochemical cycle of Mn oxides on the Earth's surface
Lu, A., Li, Y., Liu, F., Liu, Y., Ye, H., Zhuang, Z., Li, Y., Ding, H., & Wang, C. (2021) · Mineralogical Magazine · doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.10 · Cited by 38
Constraining the timing of the Great Oxidation Event within the Rubisco phylogenetic tree
Kaçar, B., Hanson-Smith, V., Adam, Z. R., & Boekelheide, N. (2017) · Geobiology · doi:10.1111/gbi.12243 · Cited by 39
Microbial roles in cave biogeochemical cycling
Zhu, H.-Z., Jiang, C., & Liu, S. (2022) · Frontiers in Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.950005 · Cited by 36
The Cosmic Zoo: The (Near) Inevitability of the Evolution of Complex, Macroscopic Life
Bains, W., & Schulze‐Makuch, D. (2016) · Life · doi:10.3390/life6030025 · Cited by 37
Onset of coupled atmosphere–ocean oxygenation 2.3 billion years ago
Ostrander, C. M., Heard, A. W., Shu, Y., Bekker, A., Poulton, S. W., Olesen, K. P., & Nielsen, S. G. (2024) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07551-5 · Cited by 37
Investigating Abiotic and Biotic Mechanisms of Pyrite Reduction
Spietz, R. L., Payne, D., Kulkarni, G., Metcalf, W. W., Roden, E., & Boyd, E. S. (2022) · Frontiers in Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.878387 · Cited by 34
Positive cerium anomalies imply pre-GOE redox stratification and manganese oxidation in Paleoproterozoic shallow marine environments
Warke, M. R., Strauß, H., & Schröder, S. (2020) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105767 · Cited by 32
The paleoenvironmental implications of pre-Great Oxidation Event manganese deposition in the Mesoarchean Ijzermijn Iron Formation Bed, Mozaan Group, Pongola Supergroup, South Africa
Smith, A. J. B., & Beukes, N. J. (2022) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106922 · Cited by 37
Shedding light on manganese cycling in the early oceans
Lyons, T. W., Diamond, C., & Konhauser, K. O. (2020) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2016447117 · Cited by 31

Authors: Johnson, J. E., Webb, S. M., Thomas, K., Ono, S., Kirschvink, J. L., & Fischer, W. W.
Affiliations: California Institute of Technology (US)
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (US)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP)
ORCID: Johnson, Jena E.
Webb, Samuel M.
Ono, Shuhei
Kirschvink, Joseph L.
Fischer, Woodward W.
Venue: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Published: 2013-06-24
Volume: 110
Issue: 28
Pages: 11238-11243
ISSN: 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1305530110
PMC: PMC3710856
OpenAlex: W2103118098
Cited by: 238
References: 62
Citations by year: 2026: 9 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 19 · 2013: 5
FWCI: 11.79
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Locations: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Funders: National Science Foundation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Agouron Institute
Office of Science
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Topics: Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Keywords: manganese cycle, oxygen-evolving complex, Paleoproterozoic, manganese oxide, carbonate minerals, diagenesis, sulfur isotopes, carbon isotopes
MeSH terms: Cyanobacteria, Manganese, Oxidation-Reduction, Photosynthesis, Biomarkers

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

Manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis before the rise of cyanobacteria

Abstract

Overview

Integrity signals

Verification

Claims the paper makes

Claims other papers make about this one

Citations

Cites

Cited by

Related

Metadata

Record

About these checks