Ruszczycky Mark W, Liu Hung-Wen
Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin.
Nature. 2017 Nov 1;551(7678):37-38. doi: 10.1038/551037a.
What came first: oxygen-producing photosynthesis, or compounds that protect cells from oxygen-induced damage? It emerges that one such compound might have been produced in microbes before Earth’s oxygenation.
产生氧气的光合作用,还是保护细胞免受氧气诱导损伤的化合物?结果表明,在地球氧化之前,微生物中可能就已经产生了一种这样的化合物。