Was nitric oxide the first deep electron sink?

被引:128
作者
Ducluzeau, Anne-Lise [1 ]
van Lis, Robert [1 ]
Duval, Simon [1 ]
Schoepp-Cothenet, Barbara [1 ]
Russell, Michael J. [2 ]
Nitschke, Wolfgang [1 ]
机构
[1] CNRS, Lab Bioenerget & Ingn Prot, UPR9036, IFR77, F-13402 Marseille 20, France
[2] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Sect 3220, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
基金
美国国家航空航天局;
关键词
CYTOCHROME-C-OXIDASE; ACTIVE-SITE RESIDUE; NITROGEN-FIXATION; OXIDATION-STATE; EARLY EVOLUTION; REDOX; DIVERSIFICATION; RESPIRATION; PROTEIN; LIFE;
D O I
10.1016/j.tibs.2008.10.005
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Evolutionary histories of enzymes involved in chemiosmotic energy conversion indicate that a strongly oxidizing substrate was available to the last universal common ancestor before the divergence of Bacteria and Archaea. According to palaeogeochemical evidence, 02 was not present beyond trace amounts on the early Earth. Based on recent phylogenetic, enzymatic and geochemical results, we propose that, in the earliest Archaean, nitric oxide (NO) and its derivatives nitrate and nitrite served as strongly oxidizing substrates driving the evolution of a bioenergetic pathway related to modern dissimilatory denitrification. Aerobic respiration emerged later from within this ancestral pathway via adaptation of the enzyme NO reductase to its new substrate, dioxygen.
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