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Dr Tanai Cardona

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences

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@article{Gisriel:2022:10.3390/microorganisms10071270,
author = {Gisriel, CJ and Cardona, Londono T and Bryant, DA and Brudvig, GW},
doi = {10.3390/microorganisms10071270},
journal = {Microorganisms},
pages = {1--19},
title = {Molecular evolution of far-red light-acclimated photosystem II},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10071270},
volume = {10},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Cyanobacteria are major contributors to global carbon fixation and primarily use visible light (400−700 nm) to drive oxygenic photosynthesis. When shifted into environments where visible light is attenuated, a small, but highly diverse and widespread number of cyanobacteria can express modified pigments and paralogous versions of photosystem subunits and phycobiliproteins that confer far-red light (FRL) absorbance (700−800 nm), a process termed far-red light photoacclimation, or FaRLiP. During FaRLiP, alternate photosystem II (PSII) subunits enable the complex to bind chlorophylls d and f, which absorb at lower energy than chlorophyll a but still support water oxidation. How the FaRLiP response arose remains poorly studied. Here, we report ancestral sequence reconstruction and structure-based molecular evolutionary studies of the FRL-specific subunits of FRL-PSII. We show that the duplications leading to the origin of two PsbA (D1) paralogs required to make chlorophyll f and to bind chlorophyll d in water-splitting FRL-PSII are likely the first to have occurred prior to the diversification of extant cyanobacteria. These duplications were followed by those leading to alternative PsbC (CP43) and PsbD (D2) subunits, occurring early during the diversification of cyanobacteria, and culminating with those leading to PsbB (CP47) and PsbH paralogs coincident with the radiation of the major groups. We show that the origin of FRL-PSII required the accumulation of a relatively small number of amino acid changes and that the ancestral FRL-PSII likely contained a chlorophyll d molecule in the electron transfer chain, two chlorophyll f molecules in the antenna subunits at equivalent positions, and three chlorophyll a molecules whose site energies were altered. The results suggest a minimal model for engineering far-red light absorbance into plant PSII for biotechnological applications.
AU  - Gisriel,CJ
AU  - Cardona,Londono T
AU  - Bryant,DA
AU  - Brudvig,GW
DO  - 10.3390/microorganisms10071270
EP  - 19
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 2076-2607
SP  - 1
TI  - Molecular evolution of far-red light-acclimated photosystem II
T2  - Microorganisms
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10071270
UR  - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/10/7/1270
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/97835
VL  - 10
ER  -
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