Susumu Yoshizawa, Tomonori Azuma, Keiichi Kojima, Keisuke Inomura, Masumi Hasegawa, Yosuke Nishimura, Masuzu Kikuchi, Gabrielle Armin, Yuya Tsukamoto, Hideaki Miyashita, Kentaro Ifuku, Takashi Yamano, Adrian Marchetti, Hideya Fukuzawa, Yuki Sudo, Ryoma Kamikawa
Diatoms are a major phytoplankton group responsible for approximately 20% of carbon fixation on Earth. They perform photosynthesis using light-harvesting chlo-rophylls located in plastids, an organelle obtained through eukaryote-eukaryote endosymbiosis. Microbial rhodopsin, a photoreceptor distinct from chlo-rophyll-based photosystems, was recently identified in some diatoms. However, the physiological function of diatom rhodopsin remains unclear. Heterologous expression techniques were herein used to investigate the protein function and subcellular localization of diatom rhodopsin...
2023: Microbes and Environments