ArticleThe ISME journal2016
Genomics of a phototrophic nitrite oxidizer: insights into the evolution of photosynthesis and nitrification.
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- Molecular Relationships in Biofilm Formation and the Biosynthesis of Exoproducts in Pseudoalteromonas spp.Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Review
- From manganese oxidation to water oxidation: assembly and evolution of the water-splitting complex in photosystem II.Photosynthesis research · 2022Review
- Single-cell genomics-based analysis reveals a vital ecological role ofMicrobial genomics · 2021Article
- Structural and functional characterization of the intracellular filament-forming nitrite oxidoreductase multiprotein complex.Nature microbiology · 2021Article
- Expanded Diversity and Metabolic Versatility of Marine Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria Revealed by Cultivation- and Genomics-Based Approaches.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2020Article
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- Eelgrass Sediment Microbiome as a Nitrous Oxide Sink in Brackish Lake Akkeshi, Japan.Microbes and environments · 2019Article
- Genomic profiling of four cultivated Candidatus Nitrotoga spp. predicts broad metabolic potential and environmental distribution.The ISME journal · 2018Article
- Characterization of the First "mBio · 2018Article
- A New Perspective on Microbes Formerly Known as Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria.Trends in microbiology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Oxygenic photosynthesis evolved from anoxygenic ancestors before the rise of oxygen ~2.32 billion years ago; however, little is known about this transition. A high redox potential reaction center is a prerequisite for the evolution of the water-oxidizing complex of photosystem II. Therefore, it is likely that high-potential phototrophy originally evolved to oxidize alternative electron donors that utilized simpler redox chemistry, such as nitrite or Mn. To determine whether nitrite could have had a role in the transition to high-potential phototrophy, we sequenced and analyzed the genome of Thiocapsa KS1, a Gammaproteobacteria capable of anoxygenic phototrophic nitrite oxidation. The genome revealed a high metabolic flexibility, which likely allows Thiocapsa KS1 to colonize a great variety of habitats and to persist under fluctuating environmental conditions. We demonstrate that Thiocapsa KS1 does not utilize a high-potential reaction center for phototrophic nitrite oxidation, which suggests that this type of phototrophic nitrite oxidation did not drive the evolution of high-potential phototrophy. In addition, phylogenetic and biochemical analyses of the nitrite oxidoreductase (NXR) from Thiocapsa KS1 illuminate a complex evolutionary history of nitrite oxidation. Our results indicate that the NXR in Thiocapsa originates from a different nitrate reductase clade than the NXRs in chemolithotrophic nitrite oxidizers, suggesting that multiple evolutionary trajectories led to modern nitrite-oxidizing bacteria.
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