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The microbial engines that drive Earth's biogeochemical cycles.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 23 May 2008
Falkowski Paul G, Fenchel Tom, Delong Edward F
Abstract excerpt
Virtually all nonequilibrium electron transfers on Earth are driven by a set of nanobiological machines composed largely of multimeric protein complexes associated with a small number of prosthetic groups. These machines evolved exclusively in microbes early in our planet's history yet, despite their antiquity, are highly conserved. Hence, although there is enormous genetic diversity in nature, there remains a...
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