Origin and evolution of water oxidation before the last common ancestor of the cyanobacteria

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1310-1328

  Cardona, Tanai ^a   Murray, James W ^a   Rutherford, A William ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cyanobacteria; oxygenic photosynthesis; Photosystem II; PsbA; water oxidation

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE; WATER; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYSTEM II;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLADISTICS; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GLOEOBACTER KILAUEENSIS; ILLUMINATION; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

CYANOBACTERIA; GLOEOBACTER; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIGHT; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; WATER;

EID: 84929645893     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv024     Document Type: Article

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