Light-driven anaerobic microbial oxidation of manganese

Nature, Published online: 04 December 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1804-0Anoxygenic photosynthetic microorganisms can biomineralize manganese oxides without molecular oxygen being present and without high-potential photosynthetic reaction centres, which sheds doubt on proposed dates for the origins of oxygenic photosynthetic metabolism.

Source: Nature AOP - December 3, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Mirna Daye Vanja Klepac-Ceraj Mihkel Pajusalu Sophie Rowland Anna Farrell-Sherman Nicolas Beukes Nobumichi Tamura Gregory Fournier Tanja Bosak Source Type: research