MicrobiologyProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
A novel quinone biosynthetic pathway illuminates the evolution of aerobic metabolism
Felix J. Elling, Fabien Pierrel, Sophie-Carole Chobert…·Ann Pearson
The paper identifies a novel ancestral high redox potential quinone, methyl-plastoquinone, and shows its evolutionary origin predates the Great Oxygenation Event.
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