evolution of photosynthesis
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Presented by: Bishnu Adhikari
Evolution of Photosynthesis
2016.4.26
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Contents Introduction Geological Evidence for Photosynthesis Mechanisms of Evolution Evolution of Cofactors Evolution of Protein Complexes Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Electron Transport Chains Summary
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Introduction
• The energy gradient that maintains our biosphere is provided by photosynthesis.
Light• CO₂+ H2O (CH2O)6 + O2
• Atmosphere provides the basis of the energy gradient that sustains life
close to the Earth’s surface.
• The dominant group of photosynthetic organisms generates O2 through the decomposition of water..
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• Electrons liberated in this process can be used to reduce inorganic carbon to form organic molecules to build cellular components.
• First photosynthetic organisms evolved early in the evolutionary history of life used reducing agents such as H2 or H2S as sources of electrons, rather than water.
• Use of water as an electron donor for the evolution of life is of particular importance.
• Photosynthesis, ancient process evolved via a complex path to produce the distribution of types of photosynthetic organisms and metabolisms.
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• C3 , C4 and CAM are three major metabolic pathways of photosynthesis. C3 photosynthesis is the oldest and most common form.
• Oxidation of water in the process of photosynthesis lead to the formation of oxygen, critical importance for aerobic life forms.
• Photosynthesis using electron donors others than water is carried out in non cyanobacterial photosynthetic bacteria which generally operates under anaerobic conditions.
• Anoxygenic photosynthesis uses protein complexes may derive from the same ancestor from which oxygenic photosynthesis evolved.
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Geological Evidence for Photosynthesis
• Meteorites may have provided large amounts of organic molecules.
• Chemical analysis of meteorites shows substantial amounts of organic materials.
• Carbon-based life forms incorporated into inorganic carbon when abiotic source of organic carbon was used up.
• Understanding of the emergence of life and photosynthesis has resulted from advances in the analysis of ancient rocks.
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Oxygen
• Solid indicator for cyanobacterial-type photosynthesis.
• Ability of organisms to carry out oxygenic photosynthesis may have preceded the accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere.
• Oxygen was very inefficient at first, organisms slowly developing the needed defenses against oxygen. Dissolved buffers prevented oxygen from escaping.
• Prominent buffer ferrous iron largely stop forming oxygen in the atmosphere.
• The increase of oxygen in the atmosphere comes from the nitrogen–oxygen redox cycle.
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Carbon in Ancient Rocks
• Due to advances in the analysis of ancient rocks, great amount of progress in the understanding of life and photosynthesis.
• Early life may reach as far back as the oldest rocks but metamorphic events that may have changed ancient rocks.
Fossil Record
• The mineralized imprints of organisms provide another measure for the occurrence of life.
• The fossil record covers the diversification of vascular plants and the earlier eukaryotes.
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Chemical Indicators• Different organic molecules derived from distinctive cellular components
used as biomarkers for specific organism groups.
• Oxygen-producing photosynthesis enabled the synthesis of biological molecules whose biogenesis is oxygen-dependent.
Genetic Evidence
• The presence of oxygen triggered a revolution in cellular metabolism.
• Oxygen can be generated from nitric-oxiden indicates that oxygen-dependent pathways may have been operational before the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis.
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Mechanisms of Evolution
Molecular Evolution
• Evolution occurs on a molecular level through changes in DNA that create novel proteins offering novel metabolic opportunities.
• Within an organism, gene or genome duplication may provide a “sand box” for molecular innovation.
• RC evolution is a case of gene duplication in which a single gene coding for a homodimeric protein is duplicated to derive heterodimeric RCs.
• Gene fusion and splitting are also the likely mechanisms behind the fused RC core and antennas.
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• Lateral gene transfer enables the transfer of metabolic capabilities between organisms and is a likely present photosynthetic mechanism.
• Some genomes contain compact clusters that include genes coding for RCs and the synthesis of photosynthetic pigments serve as a vehicle for transfer of capabilities between organisms.
• Lateral gene transfer between Bacteria and Archaea and Bacteria may account for the present distribution of rhodopsins.
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Evolution of Cofactors
Protein complexes and molecules are utilized to perform functions. of photosynthetic systems
Hemes• Share part of the biosynthetic pathway with chlorophylls.
• Heme carrying proteins were postulated present in the last common ancestor of Bacteria and Archaea .
Quinones• Membrane-bound quinones are nearly ubiquitous in Archaea, Bacteria,
and Eukarya.
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Chlorophylls
• Chlorophylls are the defining feature for charge-separating RCs.
• Chlorophylls provide the principal antenna pigments in all RC containing organisms
Chlorophyll diversity• All chlorophylls are circularized terapyrroles with a central magnesium.
• The biogensis of chlorophylls is of interest in understanding the evolution of photosynthesis
• “Original” chlorophyll help in reconstructing the evolution of photosynthetic machinery in different organisms.
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Quinones in quinone-type reaction centers
• The Q-type RCs contain two quinones as electron acceptors.
• Single-electron acceptor QA, and the second QB accepts two electrons
Quinones in iron sulfur-type reaction centers• Cyanobacteria and their plastid progeny use phylloquinone as a
membrane-bound one-electron acceptor in Photosystem I.
• Phylloquinone and Menaquinone have identical naphthoquinone head group but different side chains synthesized by homologous biosynthetic pathways
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Oxygen-dependent chlorophyll biogenesis steps• The presence of oxygen allowed the development of novel reaction
pathways that include Chlorophyll biosynthesis.
• Three of the enzymes involved in chlorophyll biosynthesis are different in aerobic and anaerobic phototrophs.
• Facultative organisms contain both copies of the enzymes, whereas strict anaerobes contain only the anaerobic versions and aerobes have the aerobic versions.
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Evolution of Protein Complexes
Rhodopsins
• Appear to be a simple way of harvesting light energy.
• Proteins that are composed of seven transmembrane helices and catalyze the light-driven translocation of ions across the membrane.
• Display a broad, yet patchy distribution in Archaea, thought to be the result of lateral gene transfer and gene loss.
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Rhodopsin distribution
• Photo converters in the last common ancestor of Archaea or in the last common ancestor of Bacteria and Archaea.
Rhodopsin autotrophy
• Currently, light-driven, autotrophic life isn’t dependent on rhodopsins as photo-converters.
• Chlorophyll RCs and rhodopsin-based photo-converters do not seem to be functional within a single organism at the same time.
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Photosynthetic Reaction Center
• A complex of several proteins, pigments and other co-factors that together execute the primary energy conversion reactions of photosynthesis.
• Have a fundamentally common structure.
• Composed of an integral membrane protein complex of essentially a homodimeric or heterodimeric nature to which pigments and redox-active co factors are bound.
• The RC complex is at the heart of photosynthesis.
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• Anoxygenic phototrophs have just one type, either type I or II, while all oxygenic phototrophs have one of each type.
• Light energy is absorbed primarily by antenna pigments, which harvest light and transfer it to reaction centre.
Photosynthetic reaction centers can be divided into two groups.
1. Photosystem II-type ( Non iron type).
2. Photosystem-I type (FeS cluster type).
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• The electron transport pathway utilizes only one branch of the electron transport chain.
• The interquinone electron transfer direction is roughly parallel to the plane of the membrane.
• This functional preference imposes a heterodimeric structure on the Q-type RCs
of cyanobacteria and eukaryotes
• The RCs of purple bacteria and filamentous anoxygenic phototrophs consist of a dimeric 5 TMH domain.
Quinone-type reaction centers (Q-type RCs)/ Photosystem II
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Iron sulfur-type reaction centers (FeS-type RCs)/Photosystem I
• Electron is transferred to a cytochrome b6f complex and then to plastocyanin, a blue copper protein and electron carrier.
• Ferredoxin is a soluble protein containing a 2Fe-2S cluster coordinated by four cysteine residues.
• FeS-type RCs are 11 TMH dimers, 5 TMH electron transport core and the 6 TMH core antennae
• The FeS-type RCs are homodimeric; that is, the dimer is formed from two identical
11 TMH proteins.
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Fig. 1. a: Schematic diagram indicating the transmembrane helical composition of photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs). b: Arrangement of electron transport cofactors involved in the charge separation and stabilization of Q-type and FeS-type RCs.
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Quinone-type versus iron sulfur-type reaction centers
• FeS-type RCs are homodimeric, and can be assumed to be the original form. FeS-type RCs represent the ancestral form.
• Two FeS-cluster complexes that are the defining part of all FeS-type RCs are housed in subunits not found in Q-type RCs.
• FeS-cluster proteins may have different evolutionary origins, as the green sulfur and cyanobacterial subunits appear not to be closely related.
• Quinones in green sulfur bacteria and heliobacteria appear as potential status as vestigial cofactors.
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The Ancestral Reaction Center
• Structural similarities of the type I and type II reaction centers provide a convincing argument for a common evolutionary.
• The function of the original reaction centre was probably the generation of ATP rather than that of reducing equivalents.
• Purple non-sulfur bacteria and green bacteria and heliobacteria fit the bill of potentially being close to the photosynthetic ancestor.
• Purple bacteria, green bacteria and heliobacteria have a cyclic electron transfer pathway.
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Evolution of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers
A scenario for the early evolution of photosynthetic reaction centers
• Original reaction center was a protein monomer developed the ability to dimerize producing a homodimeric complex.
• This requires that a single gene reaction center existed at some time, which has since been replaced by the two gene reaction center.
• Gene duplication and subsequent divergence permitted the development of a heterodimeric complex.
• Purple bacteria RC is closely coupled dimer of bacteriochlorophylls that make up the primary electron donor of the complex.
• This pigment dimer was lacking in a reaction center consisting of only one protein subunit.
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Fig 2. Scheme for evolutionary development of photosynthetic reaction centers.
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Origin of the linked reaction centers in oxygen evolving organisms
• Linked photosystems found in oxygen-evolving organisms is some sort of genetic fusion event took place between two bacteria.
• One with a pheophytin-quinone reaction center and the other with an FeS reaction center.
• This produced a chimeric organism with two unlinked photosystems.
• Subsequently, the two photosystems were linked, and the oxygen evolving system added.
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Fig. 3. Scenario for evolution of photosynthetic reaction centers
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Electron Transport Chains
• Primary photochemistry and other secondary electron transfer reactions take place within the RC complex.
• Additional electron transfer processes are necessary before the process of energy storage is complete.
• Cytochrome bc1 and b6f complexes oxidize quinols produced by photochemistry in type II RCs or via cyclic.
• All phototrophic organisms have a cytochrome bc1 or b6f complex of generally similar architecture.
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Fig. 4. Electron transport diagram indicating the types of Photosynthetic RCs and electron transport pathways found in different groups of photosynthetic organisms.
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Summary
• The process of photosynthesis originated early in Earth’s history.
• Evolved to its current mechanistic diversity and phylogenetic distribution by a complex, nonlinear process.
• The evolutionary history of photosynthetic organisms is further complicated .
• Lateral gene transfer that involved photosynthetic components as well as by endosymbiotic events.
• Photosynthesis originated and developed, from primitive cells through anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria, through cyanobacteria and eventually to chloroplasts.
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• The evidences suggest that the earliest photosynthetic organisms were anoxygenic.
• All photosynthetic RCs have been derived from a single source.
• Ancestor RCs have been a multimeric composite of a limited number of one-helix proteins that have fused together.
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