Role for Ferredoxins in the Origin of Life and Biological Evolution
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There is a consistent and robust line of biochemical evolutionary reasoning that FeS clusters, chemolithoautotrophy and anaerobes tend to reflect antiquity.
“There is a consistent and robust line of biochemical evolutionary reasoning that FeS clusters, chemolithoautotrophy and anaerobes tend to reflect antiquity [44,49,160,161].”
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- Authors
- HALL, D. O., CAMMACK, R., & RAO, K. K.
- Affiliations
- King's College London (GB)
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1971-09
- Volume
- 233
- Issue
- 5315
- Pages
- 136-138
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2060939270
- Cited by
- 177
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 15.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (1971-11-05)
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Enzyme Structure and Function
- Keywords
- ferredoxin, iron-sulfur proteins, origin of life, evolution, electron carriers, amino acid sequence, electron spin resonance, redox potential, photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, carbon metabolism, steroid hydroxylation
- MeSH terms
- Origin of Life, Amino Acid Sequence, Anaerobiosis, Bacteria, Biological Evolution, Ferredoxins, Molecular Sequence Data, Photosynthesis, Plants, Evolution, Molecular, Eukaryota
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