Gould, SB and Nelson-, Sathi S (2019) Adaptation to life on land at high O2 via transition from ferredoxin-to NADH-dependent redox balance. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 286 (1909). ISSN 1471-2954

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Abstract

Pyruvate : ferredoxin oxidoreductase (PFO) and iron only hydrogenase ([Fe]-HYD) are common enzymes among eukaryotic microbes that inhabit anaerobic niches. Their function is to maintain redox balance by donating electrons from food oxidation via ferredoxin (Fd) to protons, generating H2 as a waste product. Operating in series, they constitute a soluble electron transport chain of one-electron transfers between FeS clusters. They fulfil the same function-redox balance-served by two electron-transfers in the NADH- and O2-dependent respiratory chains of mitochondria. Although they possess O2-sensitive FeS clusters, PFO, Fd and [Fe]-HYD are also present among numerous algae that produce O2. The evolutionary persistence of these enzymes among eukaryotic aerobes is traditionally explained as adaptation to facultative anaerobic growth. Here, we show that algae express enzymes of anaerobic energy metabolism at ambient O2 levels (21% v/v), Chlamydomonas reinhardtii expresses them with diurnal regulation. High O2 environments arose on Earth only approximately 450 million years ago. Gene presence/absence and gene expression data indicate that during the transition to high O2 environments and terrestrialization, diverse algal lineages retained enzymes of Fd-dependent one-electron-based redox balance, while the land plant and land animal lineages underwent irreversible specialization to redox balance involving the O2-insensitive two-electron carrier NADH.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	NADH/NDH complex; algae; oxygen; redox balance; terrestrialization
Subjects:	Computational Biology
Depositing User:	Central Library RGCB
Date Deposited:	13 Jan 2020 10:38
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2020 10:39
URI:	http://rgcb.sciencecentral.in/id/eprint/920

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