The long goodbye: the rise and fall of flavodoxin during plant evolution

JJ Pierella Karlusich, AF Lodeyro… - Journal of Experimental …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Ferredoxins are electron shuttles harbouring iron–sulfur clusters that connect multiple oxido-
reductive pathways in organisms displaying different lifestyles. Some prokaryotes and algae …

Interdependence of tetrapyrrole metabolism, the generation of oxidative stress and the mitigative oxidative stress response

AWU Busch, BL Montgomery - Redox biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Tetrapyrroles are involved in light harvesting and light perception, electron-transfer
reactions, and as co-factors for key enzymes and sensory proteins. Under conditions in …

Acclimation of oxygenic photosynthesis to iron starvation is controlled by the sRNA IsaR1

J Georg, G Kostova, L Vuorijoki, V Schön, T Kadowaki… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Oxygenic photosynthesis crucially depends on proteins that possess Fe 2+ or Fe/S
complexes as co-factors or prosthetic groups. Here, we show that the small regulatory RNA …

Geranyl Diphosphate Synthase (CrtE) Inhibition Using Alendronate Enhances Isoprene Production in Recombinant Synechococcus elongatus UTEX 2973: A Step …

I Yadav, A Rautela, A Gangwar, V Kesari, AK Padhi… - Fermentation, 2023 - mdpi.com
A hemiterpene, isoprene, is commercially produced from crude oil refining processes. As a
result of fossil fuel depletion, isoprene production process development is gaining attention …

Expanding the role of FurA as essential global regulator in cyanobacteria

A Gonzalez, MT Bes, ML Peleato, MF Fillat - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
In the nitrogen-fixing heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, the ferric
uptake regulator FurA plays a global regulatory role. Failures to eliminate wild-type copies of …

On the trail of iron uptake in ancestral Cyanobacteria on early Earth

TC Enzingmüller‐Bleyl, JS Boden, AJ Herrmann… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacteria oxygenated Earth's atmosphere~ 2.4 billion years ago, during the Great
Oxygenation Event (GOE), through oxygenic photosynthesis. Their high iron requirement …

Cyanochelins, an overlooked class of widely distributed cyanobacterial siderophores, discovered by silent gene cluster awakening

T Galica, N Borbone, J Mareš, A Kust… - Applied and …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cyanobacteria require iron for growth and often inhabit iron-limited habitats, yet only a few
siderophores are known to be produced by them. We report that cyanobacterial genomes …

The challenge of iron stress in cyanobacteria

A González, MF Fillat, MT Bes, ML Peleato… - Cyanobacteria, 2018 - books.google.com
Iron is an essential nutrient for most living organisms. Due to the low solubility of ferric iron at
physiological pH, the transition from an anaerobic atmosphere to the actual oxidant …

Redox-based transcriptional regulation in prokaryotes: revisiting model mechanisms

E Sevilla, MT Bes, A Gonzalez, ML Peleato… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Significance: The successful adaptation of microorganisms to ever-changing environments
depends, to a great extent, on their ability to maintain redox homeostasis. To effectively …

Mechanisms and fitness implications of photomorphogenesis during chromatic acclimation in cyanobacteria

BL Montgomery - Journal of experimental botany, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Photosynthetic organisms absorb photons and convert light energy to chemical energy
through the process of photosynthesis. Photosynthetic efficiency is tuned in response to the …