Abstract There is no evolutionary continuity between photochemical abiosynthesis and bacterial photosynthesis. Rather, the photosynthetic bacteria are descendants of fermenters that did not use light. Photosynthesis and respiration, both using electron flow coupled with phosphorylation, have a common origin (‘conversion hypothesis’), but photosynthesis came first. Anaerobic (nitrate or sulphate) respiration cannot have preceded photosynthesis as neither nitrate nor sulphate existed on the early earth. Sulphate was made first by photosynthetic sulphur bacteria. Nitrate arose even later, namely, in the aerobic biosphere produced by the blue-green algae, the first ‘phytotrophs’. Photophosphorylation may have originated through the combination with membrane function of substrate level phosphorylation in reactions of photoproducts. Cyclic photophosphorylation arose while the biosphere was still reducing. It was supplemented later by processes for the light-based production of reducing power (NADH), ATP-powered electron flow, and subsequently light-powered electron flow with ATP production (noncyclic photophosphorylation). These later processes served the assimilation of $ CO_{2} $.


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    Titel :

    The beginning of photosynthesis


    Beteiligte:
    Broda, E. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Origins of life ; 6 , 1-2 ; 247-251


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1975




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    BKL:    44.71 Verkehrsmedizin
    Lokalklassifikation TIB:    535/3908/4290



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