ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2012
The evolution of photosystem I in light of phage-encoded reaction centres.
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- Photosynthesis Has Been Established Only Once-Evolution of Photosynthetic Reaction Center Proteins and Bacteriochlorophyll Biosynthesis.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Article
- Novel phages ofThe Journal of general virology · 2024Article
- Cyanophages as an important factor in the early evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem-I psaDCAB gene organization.Environmental microbiology · 2015Article
- Shedding new light on viral photosynthesis.Photosynthesis research · 2015Review
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- Evolution of photosystem I and the control of global enthalpy in an oxidizing world.Photosynthesis research · 2013Review
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- Integrating current knowledge in various aspects of thylakoid membrane structure and dynamics.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2012Article
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Abstract
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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