Iron Rivets in Cellular Building Blocks
Microorganisms Living in Sulfuric Acid have a Unique Biochemical Machinery
23-Jan-2007 -
The fact that Ferroplasma acidiphilum, a single-celled organism lacking a protective cell wall, is capable of living in sulfuric acid is already extraordinary. But what really makes the microbe unique is its unusual relationship to iron. Researchers in Braunschweig and Madrid have discovered that ...
catalysis
evolution
iron
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