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Marine Bacterial and Archaeal Ion-Pumping Rhodopsins: Genetic Diversity, Physiology, and Ecology.
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- Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant virus.Journal of virology · 2026Article
- Phototrophicity and genomic composition in plant-associated Sphingomonas faeni strains.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2026Article
- Elevation-structured viral ecological strategies along glacier-fed rivers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Dynamic velocity response of E. coli powered by proteorhodopsin.Biophysical reports · 2026Article
- Diverging pH dependence and photocycle dynamics across members of the CryoRhodopsin clade.Biophysical journal · 2026Article
- Formation of a Proton-Conducting Hydrogen-Bond Network during the L/M Transition ofThe journal of physical chemistry letters · 2026Article
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- The microbiome of marine mat-forming cyanobacteria-a microcosm of taxonomic novelty and phototrophic diversity.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Unexpected microbial rhodopsin dynamics in sync with phytoplankton blooms.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Ecological success in freshwater lakes: insights from novel cultivated lineages of the abundant Nanopelagicales order.Microbiome · 2025Article
- Ecogenomics and functional biogeography of the Roseobacter group in the global oceans based on 653 MAGs and SAGs.Microbiome · 2025Article
- Opsins are Phospholipid Scramblases in All Domains of Life.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Structural insights into light harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea.Nature microbiology · 2025Article
- Proteorhodopsin insights into the molecular mechanism of vectorial proton transport.Science advances · 2025Article
- Actinorhodopsin: an efficient and robust light-driven proton pump for bionanotechnological applications.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Microbial competition for iron determines its availability to the ferrous wheel.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Long-Time Scale Simulations Reveal Key Dynamics That Drive the Onset of the N State in the Proteorhodopsin Photocycle.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2024Article
- Light Control in Microbial Systems.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Transitioning from MODIS to VIIRS Global Water Reservoir Product.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Isolate-anchored comparisons reveal evolutionary and functional differentiation across SAR86 marine bacteria.The ISME journal · 2024Article
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Abstract
The recognition of a new family of rhodopsins in marine planktonic bacteria, proton-pumping proteorhodopsin, expanded the known phylogenetic range, environmental distribution, and sequence diversity of retinylidene photoproteins. At the time of this discovery, microbial ion-pumping rhodopsins were known solely in haloarchaea inhabiting extreme hypersaline environments. Shortly thereafter, proteorhodopsins and other light-activated energy-generating rhodopsins were recognized to be widespread among marine bacteria. The ubiquity of marine rhodopsin photosystems now challenges prior understanding of the nature and contributions of "heterotrophic" bacteria to biogeochemical carbon cycling and energy fluxes. Subsequent investigations have focused on the biophysics and biochemistry of these novel microbial rhodopsins, their distribution across the tree of life, evolutionary trajectories, and functional expression in nature. Later discoveries included the identification of proteorhodopsin genes in all three domains of life, the spectral tuning of rhodopsin variants to wavelengths prevailing in the sea, variable light-activated ion-pumping specificities among bacterial rhodopsin variants, and the widespread lateral gene transfer of biosynthetic genes for bacterial rhodopsins and their associated photopigments. Heterologous expression experiments with marine rhodopsin genes (and associated retinal chromophore genes) provided early evidence that light energy harvested by rhodopsins could be harnessed to provide biochemical energy. Importantly, some studies with native marine bacteria show that rhodopsin-containing bacteria use light to enhance growth or promote survival during starvation. We infer from the distribution of rhodopsin genes in diverse genomic contexts that different marine bacteria probably use rhodopsins to support light-dependent fitness strategies somewhere between these two extremes.
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