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SUBMITTER: Yu H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8165549 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu Hongjun H Schut Gerrit J GJ Haja Domink K DK Adams Michael W W MWW Li Huilin H
The Journal of biological chemistry 20210101
The modern-day respiratory complex I shares a common ancestor with the membrane-bound hydrogenase (MBH) and membrane-bound sulfane sulfur reductase (MBS). MBH and MBS use protons and sulfur as their respective electron sinks, which helped to conserve energy during early life in the Proterozoic era when the Earth's atmosphere was low in oxygen. MBH and MBS likely evolved from an integration of an ancestral, membrane-embedded, multiple resistance and pH antiporter and a soluble redox-active module ...[more]