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Evolution of Photosynthesis
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Energy conversion of sunlight by photosynthetic organisms has changed Earth and life on it. Photosynthesis arose early in Earth's history, and the earliest forms of photosynthetic life were almost certainly anoxygenic (non-oxygen evolving). The invention of oxygenic photosynthesis and the subsequent rise of atmospheric oxygen approximately 2.4 billion years ago revolutionized the energetic and enzymatic fundamentals of life. The repercussions of this revolution are manifested in novel biosynthetic pathways of photosynthetic cofactors and the modification of electron carriers, pigments, and existing and alternative modes of photosynthetic carbon fixation. The evolutionary history of photosynthetic organisms is further complicated by lateral gene transfer that involved photosynthetic components as well as by endosymbiotic events. An expanding wealth of genetic information, together with biochemical, biophysical, and physiological data, reveals a mosaic of photosynthetic features. In combination, these data provide an increasingly robust framework to formulate and evaluate hypotheses concerning the origin and evolution of photosynthesis.
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- Authors
- Hohmann-Marriott, M. F., & Blankenship, R. E.
- Affiliations
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Plant Biology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2011-06-02
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 515-548
- ISSN
- 1543-5008 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2123
- OpenAlex
- W2133071735
- Cited by
- 744
- References
- 185
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Plant Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biochemistry › Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Keywords
- evolution of photosynthesis, oxygenic photosynthesis, anoxygenic photosynthesis, Great Oxidation, electron carriers, photosynthetic pigments, photosynthetic carbon fixation, horizontal gene transfer, endosymbiosis, origin of photosynthesis, photosynthetic organisms
- MeSH terms
- Bacteria, Carbon, Chlorophyll, Electron Transport, Biological Evolution, Iron-Sulfur Proteins, Photosynthesis, Plant Proteins, Plants, Quinones, Sunlight, Symbiosis, Sensory Rhodopsins, Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins
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