Timing the evolution of antioxidant enzymes in cyanobacteria
How early photosynthesizers managed oxidative stress remains relatively unresolved. Analyses of enzymes dealing with reactive oxygen species traces the evolutionary history of superoxide dismutases and finds evidence of CuZnSOD in the ancestor of all cyanobacteria, dating back to the Archaean.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24396-y |