{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,15]],"date-time":"2026-07-15T00:21:22Z","timestamp":1784074882870,"version":"3.55.0"},"reference-count":58,"publisher":"Frontiers Media SA","funder":[{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100000275","name":"Leverhulme Trust","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["EM-2015-068"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["EM-2015-068"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100000275","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":["frontiersin.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Front. Microbiol."],"DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2016.01784","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,15]],"date-time":"2016-11-15T03:30:16Z","timestamp":1479180616000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["A Proposal for Formation of Archaean Stromatolites before the Advent of Oxygenic Photosynthesis"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"John F.","family":"Allen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"203","DOI":"10.1016\/0014-5793(93)80631-4","article-title":"Redox control of transcription: sensors, response regulators, activators and repressors.","volume":"332","author":"Allen","year":"1993","journal-title":"FEBS Lett."},{"key":"B2","first-page":"1","article-title":"Light, time and micro-organisms","author":"Allen","year":"1998","journal-title":"Proceedings of the Symposium of the Society for General Microbiology: Microbial Responses to Light and Time"},{"key":"B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"963","DOI":"10.1016\/j.febslet.2005.01.015","article-title":"A redox switch hypothesis for the origin of two light reactions in photosynthesis.","volume":"579","author":"Allen","year":"2005","journal-title":"FEBS Lett."},{"key":"B4","first-page":"3362","article-title":"Redox homeostasis in the emergence of life. On the constant internal environment of nascent living cells.","volume":"10","author":"Allen","year":"2010","journal-title":"J. Cosmol."},{"key":"B5","first-page":"422","article-title":"Origin of oxygenic photosynthesis from anoxygenic type I and Type II reaction centers","author":"Allen","year":"2014","journal-title":"The Biophysics of Photosynthesis"},{"key":"B6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"610","DOI":"10.1038\/445610a","article-title":"Evolutionary biology \u2013 Out of thin air.","volume":"445","author":"Allen","year":"2007","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"714","DOI":"10.1038\/nature04764","article-title":"Stromatolite reef from the Early Archaean era of Australia.","volume":"441","author":"Allwood","year":"2006","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"58","DOI":"10.1038\/nature05687","article-title":"The structure of a plant photosystem I supercomplex at 3.4 resolution.","volume":"447","author":"Amunts","year":"2007","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5705","DOI":"10.1016\/S0021-9258(17)37518-X","article-title":"Purification and characterization of sulfide-quinone reductase, a novel enzyme driving anoxygenic photosynthesis in Oscillatoria limnetica.","volume":"269","author":"Arieli","year":"1994","journal-title":"J. Biol. Chem."},{"key":"B10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"472","DOI":"10.1128\/MMBR.00046-05","article-title":"Cyanobacterial two-component proteins: structure, diversity, distribution, and evolution.","volume":"70","author":"Ashby","year":"2006","journal-title":"Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev."},{"key":"B11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"267","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2002.1184","article-title":"The redox protein construction kit: pre-last universal common ancestor evolution of energy-conserving enzymes.","volume":"358","author":"Baymann","year":"2003","journal-title":"Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci."},{"key":"B12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"157","DOI":"10.1016\/s0923-2508(03)00029-9","article-title":"Nitrogen fixation and photosynthetic oxygen evolution in cyanobacteria.","volume":"154","author":"Berman-Frank","year":"2003","journal-title":"Res. Microbiol."},{"key":"B13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"21","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev-earth-042711-105327","article-title":"The meaning of stromatolites","volume":"Vol. 41","author":"Bosak","year":"2013","journal-title":"Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences"},{"key":"B14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"10939","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0900885106","article-title":"Morphological record of oxygenic photosynthesis in conical stromatolites.","volume":"106","author":"Bosak","year":"2009","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A."},{"key":"B15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"12144","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1608862113","article-title":"Bicarbonate-induced redox tuning in Photosystem II for regulation and protection.","volume":"113","author":"Brinkert","year":"2016","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A."},{"key":"B16","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"31","DOI":"10.1093\/Gbe\/Evs117","article-title":"Genomes of stigonematalean cyanobacteria (subsection v) and the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis from prokaryotes to plastids.","volume":"5","author":"Dagan","year":"2013","journal-title":"Genome Biol. Evol."},{"key":"B17","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"93","DOI":"10.1038\/nature09649","article-title":"Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion.","volume":"469","author":"David","year":"2011","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B18","first-page":"318","article-title":"On the evolution of the carbon cycle","author":"Falkowski","year":"2007","journal-title":"Phytoplankton Productivity: Carbon Assimilation in Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems"},{"key":"B19","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1515\/9781400849727","author":"Falkowski","year":"2007","journal-title":"Aquatic Photosynthesis."},{"key":"B20","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"647","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev-earth-060313-054810","article-title":"Evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis","volume":"Vol. 44","author":"Fischer","year":"2016","journal-title":"Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences"},{"key":"B21","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"5","DOI":"10.1016\/S0005-2728(01)001955","article-title":"Structure of photosystem I.","volume":"1507","author":"Fromme","year":"2001","journal-title":"Biochim. Biophys. Acta Bioenerg."},{"key":"B22","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"136","DOI":"10.1038\/186136a0","article-title":"Function of the two cytochrome components in chloroplasts: a working hypothesis.","volume":"186","author":"Hill","year":"1960","journal-title":"Nature"},{"issue":"aaf9178","key":"B23","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1126\/science.aaf9178","article-title":"Light-dependent chlorophyll f synthase is a highly divergent paralog of PsbA of photosystem II.","volume":"353","author":"Ho","year":"2016","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"B24","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1256","DOI":"10.1130\/0016-7606(1999)1111256:oogcsi2.3.co;2","article-title":"Origin of 3.45 Ga coniform stromatolites in Warrawoona Group, Western Australia.","volume":"111","author":"Hofmann","year":"1999","journal-title":"Geol. Soc. Am. Bull."},{"key":"B25","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"515","DOI":"10.1146\/Annurev-Arplant-042110-103811","article-title":"Evolution of photosynthesis.","volume":"62","author":"Hohmann-Marriott","year":"2011","journal-title":"Annu. Rev. Plant Biol."},{"key":"B26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"903","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2006.1838","article-title":"The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans.","volume":"361","author":"Holland","year":"2006","journal-title":"Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci."},{"key":"B27","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"47","DOI":"10.1016\/j.precamres.2015.04.018","article-title":"Morphological adaptations of 3.22 Ga-old tufted microbial mats to Archean coastal habitats (Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa).","volume":"266","author":"Homann","year":"2015","journal-title":"Precambrian Res."},{"issue":"137","key":"B28","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3389\/fpls.2016.00137","article-title":"A two-component regulatory system in transcriptional control of photosystem stoichiometry: redox-dependent and sodium ion-dependent phosphoryl transfer from cyanobacterial histidine kinase Hik2 to response regulators rrel and RppA.","volume":"7","author":"Ibrahim","year":"2016a","journal-title":"Front. Plant Sci."},{"key":"B29","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"93","DOI":"10.1007\/s11120-016-0229-y","article-title":"Probing the nucleotide-binding activity of a redox sensor: two-component regulatory control in chloroplasts.","volume":"130","author":"Ibrahim","year":"2016b","journal-title":"Photosynth. Res."},{"key":"B30","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"11238","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.1305530110","article-title":"Manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis before the rise of cyanobacteria.","volume":"110","author":"Johnson","year":"2013","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A."},{"key":"B31","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"16925","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0909248106","article-title":"Anoxygenic photosynthesis modulated Proterozoic oxygen and sustained Earth\u2019s middle age.","volume":"106","author":"Johnston","year":"2009","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A."},{"key":"B32","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1725","DOI":"10.1002\/cbic.201300355","article-title":"Evolutionary origins of the photosynthetic water oxidation cluster: bicarbonate permits Mn2+ photo-oxidation by anoxygenic bacterial reaction centers.","volume":"14","author":"Khorobrykh","year":"2013","journal-title":"Chembiochem"},{"key":"B33","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2015.0493","article-title":"Life: the first two billion years.","volume":"371","author":"Knoll","year":"2016","journal-title":"Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B. Biol. Sci."},{"key":"B34","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"118","DOI":"10.1038\/ngeo107","article-title":"Microbially influenced formation of 2,724-million-year-old stromatolites.","volume":"1","author":"Lepot","year":"2008","journal-title":"Nat. Geosci."},{"key":"B35","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"4268","DOI":"10.1128\/JB.182.15.4268-4277.2000","article-title":"A redox-responsive regulator of photosynthesis gene expression in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp strain PCC 6803.","volume":"182","author":"Li","year":"2000","journal-title":"J. Bacteriol."},{"key":"B36","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"307","DOI":"10.1038\/nature13068","article-title":"The rise of oxygen in Earth\u2019s early ocean and atmosphere.","volume":"506","author":"Lyons","year":"2014","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B37","first-page":"229","article-title":"The origin of life and the formation and organising functions of natural membranes","author":"Mitchell","year":"1957","journal-title":"Proceedings of the First International Symposium on the Origin of Life on the Earth"},{"key":"B38","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"659","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev-biochem-092914-041942","article-title":"Structure and energy transfer in photosystems of oxygenic photosynthesis.","volume":"84","author":"Nelson","year":"2015","journal-title":"Annu. Rev. Biochem."},{"key":"B39","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1083","DOI":"10.1038\/35059210","article-title":"The habitat and nature of early life.","volume":"409","author":"Nisbet","year":"2001","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B40","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"241","DOI":"10.1016\/0968-0004(91)90095-D","article-title":"Photosynthetic reaction centers - variations on a common structural theme.","volume":"16","author":"Nitschke","year":"1991","journal-title":"Trends Biochem. Sci."},{"key":"B41","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"535","DOI":"10.1038\/nature19355","article-title":"Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures.","volume":"537","author":"Nutman","year":"2016","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B42","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"558","DOI":"10.1128\/JB.133.2.558-563.1978","article-title":"Induction of anaerobic, photoautotrophic growth in the cyanobacterium Oscillatoria limnetica.","volume":"133","author":"Oren","year":"1978","journal-title":"J. Bacteriol."},{"key":"B43","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"625","DOI":"10.1038\/17624","article-title":"Photosynthetic control of chloroplast gene expression.","volume":"397","author":"Pfannschmidt","year":"1999","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B44","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1534","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1145861","article-title":"Early Archaean microorganisms preferred elemental sulfur, not sulfate.","volume":"317","author":"Philippot","year":"2007","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"B45","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"10061","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0803928105","article-title":"The ancestral symbiont sensor kinase CSK links photosynthesis with gene expression in chloroplasts.","volume":"105","author":"Puthiyaveetil","year":"2008","journal-title":"Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A."},{"key":"B46","first-page":"1187","article-title":"Inorganic complexes enabled the onset of life and oxygenic photosynthesis","author":"Russell","year":"2008","journal-title":"Energy from the Sun: Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis"},{"key":"B47","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"87","DOI":"10.1007\/s11120-010-9577-1","article-title":"The paleobiological record of photosynthesis.","volume":"107","author":"Schopf","year":"2011","journal-title":"Photosynth. Res."},{"key":"B48","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"141","DOI":"10.1016\/j.precamres.2007.04.009","article-title":"Evidence of archean life: stromatolites and microfossils.","volume":"158","author":"Schopf","year":"2007","journal-title":"Precambrian Res."},{"key":"B49","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"297","DOI":"10.1006\/Jmbi.1998.1824","article-title":"A common ancestor for oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthetic systems: a comparison based on the structural model of photosystem I.","volume":"280","author":"Schubert","year":"1998","journal-title":"J. Mol. Biol."},{"key":"B50","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"23","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev-arplant-050312-120129","article-title":"The structure of photosystem II and the mechanism of water oxidation in photosynthesis.","volume":"66","author":"Shen","year":"2015","journal-title":"Annu. Rev. Plant Biol."},{"issue":"20130088","key":"B51","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2013.0088","article-title":"Early bioenergetic evolution.","volume":"368","author":"Sousa","year":"2013","journal-title":"Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci."},{"key":"B52","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"183","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev.biochem.69.1.183","article-title":"Two-component signal transduction.","volume":"69","author":"Stock","year":"2000","journal-title":"Annu. Rev. Biochem."},{"key":"B53","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"522","DOI":"10.1111\/gbi.12150","article-title":"A Paleoarchean coastal hydrothermal field inhabited by diverse microbial communities: the Strelley Pool Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia.","volume":"13","author":"Sugitani","year":"2015","journal-title":"Geobiology"},{"key":"B54","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"951","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2006.1837","article-title":"Steroids, triterpenoids and molecular oxygen.","volume":"361","author":"Summons","year":"2006","journal-title":"Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci."},{"key":"B55","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"55","DOI":"10.1038\/Nature09913","article-title":"Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 angstrom.","volume":"473","author":"Umena","year":"2011","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B56","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"105","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev.mi.08.100154.000541","article-title":"The chemoautotrophic and photosynthetic bacteria.","volume":"8","author":"Van Niel","year":"1954","journal-title":"Annu. Rev. Microbiol."},{"key":"B57","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"3459","DOI":"10.1093\/jxb\/eru127","article-title":"Carbon isotope discrimination as a tool to explore C-4 photosynthesis.","volume":"65","author":"von Caemmerer","year":"2014","journal-title":"J. Exp. Bot."},{"key":"B58","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"381","DOI":"10.1089\/ast.2009.0423","article-title":"Stromatolites in the similar to 3400 Ma Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia: examining Biogenicity from the Macro- to the Nano-Scale.","volume":"10","author":"Wacey","year":"2010","journal-title":"Astrobiology"}],"container-title":["Frontiers in Microbiology"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fmicb.2016.01784\/full","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,13]],"date-time":"2022-07-13T14:22:32Z","timestamp":1657722152000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fmicb.2016.01784\/full"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,15]]},"references-count":58,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmicb.2016.01784","relation":{},"ISSN":["1664-302X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1664-302X","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2016,11,15]]}}}