The biologically relevant coordination chemistry of iron and nitric oxide: electronic structure and reactivity

N Lehnert, E Kim, HT Dong, JB Harland… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is involved in a wide range of
physiological and pathological events in biology. Metal coordination chemistry, especially …

Oxidative stress in cyanobacteria

A Latifi, M Ruiz, CC Zhang - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are byproducts of aerobic metabolism and potent agents
that cause oxidative damage. In oxygenic photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria …

Regulatory electron transport pathways of photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and microalgae: Recent advances and biotechnological prospects

L Nikkanen, D Solymosi, M Jokel… - Physiologia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacteria and microalgae perform oxygenic photosynthesis where light energy is
harnessed to split water into oxygen and protons. This process releases electrons that are …

Photoprotection of photosystems in fluctuating light intensities

Y Allahverdiyeva, M Suorsa… - … of experimental botany, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Oxygenic photosynthetic organisms experience strong fluctuations in light intensity in their
natural terrestrial and aquatic growth environments. Recent studies with both plants and …

Contribution of cyclic and pseudo-cyclic electron transport to the formation of proton motive force in chloroplasts

T Shikanai, H Yamamoto - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
Photosynthetic electron transport is coupled to proton translocation across the thylakoid
membrane, resulting in the formation of a trans-thylakoid proton gradient (ΔpH) and …

Artificial remodelling of alternative electron flow by flavodiiron proteins in Arabidopsis

H Yamamoto, S Takahashi, MR Badger, T Shikanai - Nature plants, 2016 - nature.com
In photosynthesis, linear electron transport from water to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
phosphate (NADP+) cannot satisfy the ATP/NADPH production stoichiometry required by the …

Improved photosynthetic capacity and photosystem I oxidation via heterologous metabolism engineering in cyanobacteria

M Santos-Merino, A Torrado… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Cyanobacteria must prevent imbalances between absorbed light energy (source) and the
metabolic capacity (sink) to utilize it to protect their photosynthetic apparatus against …

[HTML][HTML] Cyanobacterial NDH-1 complexes: novel insights and remaining puzzles

N Battchikova, M Eisenhut, EM Aro - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2011 - Elsevier
Cyanobacterial NDH-1 complexes belong to a family of energy converting NAD (P) H:
Quinone oxidoreductases that includes bacterial type-I NADH dehydrogenase and …

Genes encoding A-type flavoproteins are essential for photoreduction of O2 in cyanobacteria

Y Helman, D Tchernov, L Reinhold, M Shibata… - Current Biology, 2003 - cell.com
O 2 photoreduction by photosynthetic electron transfer, the Mehler reaction [1], was
observed in all groups of oxygenic photosynthetic organisms [2–4], but the electron transport …

Flavodiiron Proteins Promote Fast and Transient O2 Photoreduction in Chlamydomonas

F Chaux, A Burlacot, M Mekhalfi, P Auroy… - Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
During oxygenic photosynthesis, the reducing power generated by light energy conversion
is mainly used to reduce carbon dioxide. In bacteria and archae, flavodiiron (Flv) proteins …