ReviewPhotosynthesis research2015
Shedding new light on viral photosynthesis.
Review in Photosynthesis research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.
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50 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Proliferative and viability effects of two cyanophages on freshwater bloom-forming species Microcystis aeruginosa and Raphidiopsis raciborskii vary between strains.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Cyanophage Engineering for Algal Blooms Control.Viruses · 2024Review
- Identification of Shemin pathway genes for tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in bacteriophage sequences from aquatic environments.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Adaptive Evolution Signatures inMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- Viral infection of an estuarineFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Viruses under the Antarctic Ice Shelf are active and potentially involved in global nutrient cycles.Nature communications · 2023Article
- The Impact of Viral Infection on the Chemistries of the Earth's Most Abundant Photosynthesizes: Metabolically Talented Aquatic Cyanobacteria.Biomolecules · 2023Article
- Genetic diversity of virus auxiliary metabolism genes associated with phosphorus metabolism in Napahai plateau wetland.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Biological and Genomic Characteristics of MaMV-DH01, a Novel FreshwaterMicrobiology spectrum · 2023Article
- Abundant and cosmopolitan lineage of cyanopodoviruses lacking a DNA polymerase gene.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Depth-driven patterns in lytic viral diversity, auxiliary metabolic gene content, and productivity in offshore oligotrophic waters.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Cyanophages as an important factor in the early evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Viruses infecting the environmentally important marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus encode 'auxiliary metabolic genes' (AMGs) involved in the light and dark reactions of photosynthesis. Here, we discuss progress on the inventory of such AMGs in the ever-increasing number of viral genome sequences as well as in metagenomic datasets. We contextualise these gene acquisitions with reference to a hypothesised fitness gain to the phage. We also report new evidence with regard to the sequence and predicted structural properties of viral petE genes encoding the soluble electron carrier plastocyanin. Viral copies of PetE exhibit extensive modifications to the N-terminal signal peptide and possess several novel residues in a region responsible for interaction with redox partners. We also highlight potential knowledge gaps in this field and discuss future opportunities to discover novel phage-host interactions involved in the photosynthetic process.
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