Thawing out frozen metabolic accidents
Abstract Photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation became evolutionarily immutable as “frozen metabolic accidents” because multiple interactions between the proteins and protein complexes involved led to their co-evolution in modules. This has impeded their adaptation to an oxidizing atmosphere, and reco...
| Published in: | BMC Biology |
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-018-0621-5 |