Colorful niches of phototrophic microorganisms shaped by vibrations of the water molecule

M Stomp, J Huisman, LJ Stal, HCP Matthijs - The ISME journal, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The photosynthetic pigments of phototrophic microorganisms cover different regions of the
solar light spectrum. Utilization of the light spectrum can be interpreted in terms of classical …

The biochemical basis for structural diversity in the carotenoids of chlorophototrophic bacteria

JA Maresca, JE Graham, DA Bryant - Photosynthesis research, 2008 - Springer
Ongoing work has led to the identification of most of the biochemical steps in carotenoid
biosynthesis in chlorophototrophic bacteria. In carotenogenesis, a relatively small number of …

Okenane, a biomarker for purple sulfur bacteria (Chromatiaceae), and other new carotenoid derivatives from the 1640 Ma Barney Creek Formation

JJ Brocks, P Schaeffer - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2008 - Elsevier
Carbonates of the 1640 million years (Ma) old Barney Creek Formation (BCF), McArthur
Basin, Australia, contain more than 22 different C40 carotenoid derivatives including …

Organic geochemistry of the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in Hawsker Bottoms, Yorkshire, England

KL French, J Sepúlveda, J Trabucho-Alexandre… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
A comprehensive organic geochemical investigation of the Hawsker Bottoms outcrop
section in Yorkshire, England has provided new insights about environmental conditions …

Sulfite oxidation in the purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum: identification of SoeABC as a major player and relevance of SoxYZ in the process

C Dahl, B Franz, D Hensen, A Kesselheim… - …, 2013 - microbiologyresearch.org
In phototrophic sulfur bacteria, sulfite is a well-established intermediate during reduced
sulfur compound oxidation. Sulfite is generated in the cytoplasm by the reverse-acting …

Sulfur metabolism in phototrophic bacteria

C Dahl - modern topics in the phototrophic prokaryotes …, 2017 - Springer
Sulfur is one of the most versatile elements in life due to its reactivity in different oxidation
and reduction states. In contrast to the assimilatory provision of sulfur-containing cell …

Assessing the distribution of sedimentary C40 carotenoids through time

KL French, D Rocher, JE Zumberge… - Geobiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A comprehensive marine biomarker record of green and purple sulfur bacteria (GSB and
PSB, respectively) is required to test whether anoxygenic photosynthesis represented a …

Salvaging high-quality genomes of microbial species from a meromictic lake using a hybrid sequencing approach

YH Chen, PW Chiang, DY Rogozin… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Most of Earth's bacteria have yet to be cultivated. The metabolic and functional potentials of
these uncultivated microorganisms thus remain mysterious, and the metagenome …

The family chromatiaceae

JF Imhoff - 2014 - oceanrep.geomar.de
The Chromatiaceae is a family of the Chromatiales within the Gammaproteobacteria and
closely related to the Ectothiorhodospiraceae. Representatives of both families are referred …

Distribution and biosynthesis of carotenoids

S Takaichi - The purple phototrophic bacteria, 2009 - Springer
Purple bacteria including aerobic photosynthetic bacteria belong to the Proteobacteria, and
75 genera including around 160 species have been described. These bacteria produce …