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June 10, 2016

Bacteria perfected protein complexes more than 3.5 billion years ago
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 10, 2016
Researchers are resurrecting ancient bacterial protein complexes to determine how 3.5-billion-year-old cells functioned versus cells of today. Surprisingly, they are not that different, reports a study published June 9 in Cell Chemical Biology. Despite a popular hypothesis that primordial organisms had simple enzyme proteins, evidence suggests that bacteria around 500 million years after life began already had the sophisticated cellular machinery that exists today. Fossils of 3.5-billion-yea ... read more

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