TY - JOUR
T1 - Cyanophora paradoxa genome elucidates origin of photosynthesis in algae and plants
AU - Price, Dana C.
AU - Chan, Cheong Xin
AU - Yoon, Hwan Su
AU - Yang, Eun Chan
AU - Qiu, Huan
AU - Weber, Andreas P.M.
AU - Schwacke, Rainer
AU - Gross, Jeferson
AU - Blouin, Nicolas A.
AU - Lane, Chris
AU - Reyes-Prieto, Adrián
AU - Durnford, Dion G.
AU - Neilson, Jonathan A.D.
AU - Lang, B. Franz
AU - Burger, Gertraud
AU - Steiner, Jürgen M.
AU - Löffelhardt, Wolfgang
AU - Meuser, Jonathan E.
AU - Posewitz, Matthew C.
AU - Ball, Steven
AU - Arias, Maria Cecilia
AU - Henrissat, Bernard
AU - Coutinho, Pedro M.
AU - Rensing, Stefan A.
AU - Symeonidi, Aikaterini
AU - Doddapaneni, Harshavardhan
AU - Green, Beverley R.
AU - Rajah, Veeran D.
AU - Boore, Jeffrey
AU - Bhattacharya, Debashish
PY - 2012/2/17
Y1 - 2012/2/17
N2 - The primary endosymbiotic origin of the plastid in eukaryotes more than 1 billion years ago led to the evolution of algae and plants. We analyzed draft genome and transcriptome data from the basally diverging alga Cyanophora paradoxa and provide evidence for a single origin of the primary plastid in the eukaryote supergroup Plantae. C. paradoxa retains ancestral features of starch biosynthesis, fermentation, and plastid protein translocation common to plants and algae but lacks typical eukaryotic light-harvesting complex proteins. Traces of an ancient link to parasites such as Chlamydiae were found in the genomes of C. paradoxa and other Plantae. Apparently, Chlamydia-like bacteria donated genes that allow export of photosynthate from the plastid and its polymerization into storage polysaccharide in the cytosol.
AB - The primary endosymbiotic origin of the plastid in eukaryotes more than 1 billion years ago led to the evolution of algae and plants. We analyzed draft genome and transcriptome data from the basally diverging alga Cyanophora paradoxa and provide evidence for a single origin of the primary plastid in the eukaryote supergroup Plantae. C. paradoxa retains ancestral features of starch biosynthesis, fermentation, and plastid protein translocation common to plants and algae but lacks typical eukaryotic light-harvesting complex proteins. Traces of an ancient link to parasites such as Chlamydiae were found in the genomes of C. paradoxa and other Plantae. Apparently, Chlamydia-like bacteria donated genes that allow export of photosynthate from the plastid and its polymerization into storage polysaccharide in the cytosol.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.1213561
DO - 10.1126/science.1213561
M3 - Article
C2 - 22344442
AN - SCOPUS:84857242898
VL - 335
SP - 843
EP - 847
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
IS - 6070
ER -