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COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY D-GENOMICS & PROTEOMICS
Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages 357-364Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbd.2006.08.001
Keywords
alternative oxidase; chloroplast; cyanobacteria; endosymbiosis; mitochondrion; photosynthesis; plastoquinol terminal oxidase; proteobacteria; respiration; vertical inheritance
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Alternative oxidase (AOX) and plastoquinol terminal oxidase (PTOX) are related quinol oxidases associated with respiratory and photosynthetic electron transport chains, respectively. Contrary to previous belief, AOX is present in numerous animal phyla, as well as heterotrophic and marine phototrophic proteobacteria. PTOX appears limited to organisms capable of oxygenic photosynthesis, including cyanobacteria, algae and plants. We propose that both oxidases originated in prokaryotes from a common ancestral di-iron carboxylate protein that diversified to AOX within ancient proteobacteria and PTOX within ancient cyanobacteria. Each then entered the eukaryotic lineage separately; AOX by the endosymbiotic event that gave rise to mitochondria and later PTOX by the endosymbiotic event that gave rise to chloroplasts. Both oxidases then spread through the eukaryotic domain by vertical inheritance, as well as by secondary and potentially tertiary endosymbiotic events. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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