Photosynthetic water oxidation by Photosystem II (PSII) is a fascinating process because it
sustains life on Earth and serves as a blue print for scalable synthetic catalysts required for …

Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes to have evolved oxygenic photosynthesis,
transforming the biology and chemistry of our planet. Genomic and evolutionary studies …

Photosynthesis is a fundamental biogeochemical process, thought to be restricted to a few
bacterial and eukaryotic phyla. However, understanding the origin and evolution of …

The ancestors of cyanobacteria generated Earth's first biogenic molecular oxygen, but how
they dealt with oxidative stress remains unconstrained. Here we investigate when …

Photosystem II is the water-oxidizing and O2-evolving enzyme of photosynthesis. How and
when this remarkable enzyme arose are fundamental questions in the history of life that …

Photosynthetic organisms have evolved versatile electron transport chains that efficiently
convert solar energy into chemical energy. Researchers can engineer these electron …

The record of the coevolution of oxygenic phototrophs and the environment is preserved in
three forms: genomes of modern organisms, diverse geochemical signals of surface …

The photorespiratory repair pathway (photorespiration in short) was set up from ancient
metabolic modules about three billion years ago in cyanobacteria, the later ancestors of …

Acaryochloris marina is a unique cyanobacterium using chlorophyll d (Chl d) as its major
pigment and thus can use far-red light for photosynthesis. Photosystem II (PSII) of A. marina …

The manganese cluster of photosystem II has been the focus of intense research aiming to
understand the mechanism of H2O-oxidation. Great effort has also been applied to …