Bacterial rhodopsin: evidence for a new type of phototrophy in the sea.

By O. Béjà, L. Aravind, Eugene V. Koonin, Marcelino T. Suzuki, A. Hadd, L. P. Nguyen, S. Jovanovich, Christian M. Gates, R. Feldman, J. Spudich and 2 more. Science, 2000

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

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Significance of predation by protists in aquatic microbial food webs (2004, background): “In addition, it has been proposed that other marine bacteria are phototrophic via nonoxygenic photosynthetic pathways, i.e., can use light energy to generate ATP (Beja et al. 2000, 2001; Kolber et al. 2000).”
High-Throughput Methods for Culturing Microorganisms in Very-Low-Nutrient Media Yield Diverse New Marine Isolates (2002, background): “The SAR86 cluster has recently been linked to a bacterial rhodopsin gene that facilitates light-mediated proton translocation (4).”
TETRA: a web-service and a stand-alone program for the analysis and comparison of tetranucleotide usage patterns in DNA sequences (2004, background): “Prominent example include the unexpected finding of bacteriorhodopsin in marine Gammaproteobacteria [3-6], and the almost complete reconstruction of two bacterial genomes from an acid mine drainage microbial biofilm [7], respectively.”
Growing Unculturable Bacteria (2012, background): “Proteorhodopsin is a light-driven proton pump that was identified in the DNA sequence of an uncultured bacterium and has been proposed to have a global impact on the carbon and energy balance in the ocean (8).”
The ecology of Cytophaga-Flavobacteria in aquatic environments. (2002, background): “Clones from the Q-proteobacterial group SAR 86, which has attracted much attention recently [25,26], were also abundant in the libraries (about 10%), but these bacteria averaged only 2% of total abundance according to FISH.”
Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology (2010, background): “coli and found to form active, light‐driven proton pumps in the presence of retinal (Beja et al., 2000; Friedrich et al., 2002; Kim et al., 2008; Sabehi et al., 2005).”
Application of fluorescent in situ hybridization coupled with tyramide signal amplification (FISH-TSA) to assess eukaryotic picoplankton composition (2002, background): “Clearly, it should extensively adopt molecular approaches such as FISH or gene cloning that have proved to be useful for the study of the diversity and the role of oceanic bacteria (Giovannoni et al. 1990, Fuhrman et al. 1992, Béja et al. 2000).”
Cleaning up with genomics: applying molecular biology to bioremediation (2003, background): “For example, the sequencing of a 130-kb BAC clone — that had been identified as belonging to an abundant, but as-yet-uncultured marine bacterium from its 16S rRNA gene — revealed a gene for rhodopsin, which had previously been observed in Archaea but not Bacteri”
Metagenomics: genomic analysis of microbial communities. (2004, background): “(5) sequenced a 130-kb fragment that contained the 16S rRNA operon of an uncultured γ -Proteobacterium (the SAR 86 group) and discovered a bacteriorhodopsin, which indicated a novel taxon of marine phototroph.”