Proteorhodopsin phototrophy in the ocean

By O. Béjà, E. Spudich, J. Spudich, M. Leclerc, E. Delong. Nature, 2001

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

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MEGAN analysis of metagenomic data. (2007, background): “Early metagenomic studies resorted to screening of environmental libraries for the presence of known phylogenetic markers and subsequent sequencing of clones of interest (Béja et al. 2000, 2001; Rondon et al. 2000; Quaiser et al. 2003; Treusch et al. 2004).”
Towards a better understanding of microbial carbon flux in the sea (2008, background): “For example, the potential for PR phototrophy in the surface ocean was discovered through the analysis of genomic fragments from marine bacterioplankton (Béjà et al. 2000, 2001).”
Cultivation of the ubiquitous SAR11 marine bacterioplankton clade (2002, background): “, which has prompted widespread efforts to elucidate the geochemical activities of these organisms without the benefit of cultures for stud”
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).”
Microbial community gene expression in ocean surface waters (2008, background): “Another important family of proteins involved in phototrophy are the proteorhodopsins (PRs), a group of membrane proteins that function as a light-driven proton pump (3).”
NOVEL DINOFLAGELLATE CLOCK‐RELATED GENES IDENTIFIED THROUGH MICROARRAY ANALYSIS 1 (2003, background): “In the present experiments, we found a gene with greater expression at CT2 than CT14 to be similar to the one encoding a bacterial proteorhodopsin required for phototrophy (Beja et al. 2001).”
Cleaning up with genomics: applying molecular biology to bioremediation (2003, background): “Subsequent field studies demonstrated the significance of this new form of PHOTOTROPHY in the ocea”
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): “U N C O R R E C T E D P R O O F depth at which the samples were collected, for example, green‐absorbing pigments (GPR) are found at the surface, and blue‐absorbing pigments (BPR) are found at the deeper waters (Beja et al., 2001).”
Prokaryotic evolution in light of gene transfer. (2002, background): “…cofactors by acquiring genes from methanogenic archaea [Chistoserdova et al. 1998]), cyanobacteria (gaining a second photosystem allowing oxygenic photosynthesis [Xiong, Inoue, and Bauer 1998]), and bacteria exploiting halorhodopsin homologues as light-driven proton pumps (Beja et al. 2001).”
The Development and Application of Optogenetics (2011, background): “For some, this serves as a mechanism of homeostasis to remain at a certain depth in the ocean (Beja et al. 2000, 2001); for others, this helps maintain osmotic balance in a highly saline environment (Stoeckenius 1985).”
Metagenomics: Application of Genomics to Uncultured Microorganisms (2004, background): “Its gene product was shown to be an authentic photoreceptor, leading to the insight that bacteriorhodopsin genes are not limited to Archaea but are in fact abundant among the Proteobacteria of the ocean (11, 12).”