期刊
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
卷 1862, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2021.148400
关键词
Origin of photosynthesis; Origin of life; Cyanobacteria; Photosystem; Reaction centre; Water oxidation
资金
- Leverhulme Trust [RPG-2017-223]
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship [MR/T017546/1]
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/K002627/1, BB/L011206/1]
- UKRI [MR/T017546/1] Funding Source: UKRI
This study compares the core antenna subunit duplication in photosystem II with early events in the history of life, providing additional evidence supporting the premise that water oxidation originated closer to the origin of life and bioenergetics than previously thought.
Oxygenic photosynthesis starts with the oxidation of water to O-2, a light-driven reaction catalysed by photosystem II. Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes capable of water oxidation and therefore, it is assumed that the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis is a late innovation relative to the origin of life and bioenergetics. However, when exactly water oxidation originated remains an unanswered question. Here we use phylogenetic analysis to study a gene duplication event that is unique to photosystem II: the duplication that led to the evolution of the core antenna subunits CP43 and CP47. We compare the changes in the rates of evolution of this duplication with those of some of the oldest well-described events in the history of life: namely, the duplication leading to the Alpha and Beta subunits of the catalytic head of ATP synthase, and the divergence of archaeal and bacterial RNA polymerases and ribosomes. We also compare it with more recent events such as the duplication of Cyanobacteria-specific FtsH metalloprotease subunits and the radiation leading to Margulisbacteria, Sericytochromatia, Vampirovibrionia, and other clades containing anoxygenic phototrophs. We demonstrate that the ancestral core duplication of photosystem II exhibits patterns in the rates of protein evolution through geological time that are nearly identical to those of the ATP synthase, RNA polymerase, or the ribosome. Furthermore, we use ancestral sequence reconstruction in combination with comparative structural biology of photosystem subunits, to provide additional evidence supporting the premise that water oxidation had originated before the ancestral core duplications. Our work suggests that photosynthetic water oxidation originated closer to the origin of life and bioenergetics than can be documented based on phylogenetic or phylogenomic species trees alone.
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