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DOI	10.1128/mBio.00561-19
	Timing the Evolutionary Advent of Cyanobacteria and the Later Great Oxidation Event Using Gene Phylogenies of a Sunscreen
	Garcia-Pichel, Ferran 1,2; Lombard, Jonathan 3; Soule, Tanya 4; Dunaj, Sean 4; Wu, Steven H.5,6; Wojciechowski, Martin F.1
通讯作者	Garcia-Pichel, Ferran
来源期刊	MBIO
ISSN	2150-7511
出版年	2019
卷号	10 期号:3
英文摘要	The biosynthesis of the unique cyanobacterial (oxyphotobacterial) indole-phenolic UVA sunscreen, scytonemin, is coded for in a conserved operon that contains both core metabolic genes and accessory, aromatic amino acid biosynthesis genes dedicated to supplying scytonemin's precursors. Comparative genomics shows conservation of this operon in many, but not all, cyanobacterial lineages. Phylogenetic analyses of the operon's aromatic amino acid genes indicate that five of them were recruited into the operon after duplication events of their respective house-keeping cyanobacterial cognates. We combined the fossil record of cyanobacteria and relaxed molecular clock models to obtain multiple estimates of these duplication events, setting a minimum age for the evolutionary advent of scytonemin at 2.1 +/- 0.3 billion years. The same analyses were used to estimate the advent of cyanobacteria as a group (and thus the appearance of oxygenic photosynthesis), at 3.6 +/- 0.2 billion years before present. Post hoc interpretation of 16S rRNA-based Bayesian analyses was consistent with these estimates. Because of physiological constraints on the use of UVA sunscreens in general, and the biochemical constraints of scytonemin in particular, scytonemin's age must postdate the time when Earth's atmosphere turned oxic, known as the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). Indeed, our biological estimate is in agreement with independent geochemical estimates for the GOE. The difference between the estimated ages of oxygenic photosynthesis and the GOE indicates the long span (on the order of a billion years) of the era of oxygen oases, when oxygen was available locally but not globally. IMPORTANCE The advent of cyanobacteria, with their invention of oxygenic photosynthesis, and the Great Oxidation Event are arguably among the most important events in the evolutionary history of life on Earth. Oxygen is a significant toxicant to all life, but its accumulation in the atmosphere also enabled the successful development and proliferation of many aerobic organisms, especially metazoans. The currently favored dating of the Great Oxidation Event is based on the geochemical rock record. Similarly, the advent of cyanobacteria is also often drawn from the same estimates because in older rocks paleontological evidence is scarce or has been discredited. Efforts to obtain molecular evolutionary alternatives have offered widely divergent estimates. Our analyses provide a novel means to circumvent these limitations and allow us to estimate the large time gap between the two events.
英文关键词	UV photobiology cyanobacteria deep evolution secondary metabolism
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	USA ; Sweden
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000473596500049
WOS关键词	OXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS ; SCYTONEMIN BIOSYNTHESIS ; ULTRAVIOLET ; ALIGNMENT ; RISE ; DIVERSIFICATION ; OXYGENATION ; HISTORY ; RECORD
WOS类目	Microbiology
WOS研究方向	Microbiology
来源机构	Arizona State University
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/217563
作者单位	1.Arizona State Univ, Sch Life Sci, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA; 2.Arizona State Univ, Biodesign Inst, Ctr Fundamental & Appl Microbi, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA; 3.Uppsala Univ, Sci Life Lab, Dept Cellular & Mol Biol, Uppsala, Sweden; 4.Purdue Univ, Dept Biol, Ft Wayne, IN USA; 5.Arizona State Univ, Biodesign Inst, Ctr Personalized Diagnost, Tempe, AZ USA; 6.BioConsortia Inc, Davis, CA USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Garcia-Pichel, Ferran,Lombard, Jonathan,Soule, Tanya,et al. Timing the Evolutionary Advent of Cyanobacteria and the Later Great Oxidation Event Using Gene Phylogenies of a Sunscreen[J]. Arizona State University,2019,10(3).
APA	Garcia-Pichel, Ferran,Lombard, Jonathan,Soule, Tanya,Dunaj, Sean,Wu, Steven H.,&Wojciechowski, Martin F..(2019).Timing the Evolutionary Advent of Cyanobacteria and the Later Great Oxidation Event Using Gene Phylogenies of a Sunscreen.MBIO,10(3).
MLA	Garcia-Pichel, Ferran,et al."Timing the Evolutionary Advent of Cyanobacteria and the Later Great Oxidation Event Using Gene Phylogenies of a Sunscreen".MBIO 10.3(2019).