Trace metal availability and the evolution of biogeochemistry
Abstract
Biogeochemistry is controlled by a small set of microbial-encoded proteins containing redox-sensitive transition metals as their core catalytic centre. Understanding how the environmental distribution and availability of these metals influences microbial functional diversity will unlock fundamental knowledge into Earth and life coevolution.
- Publication:
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Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
- Pub Date:
- September 2023
- DOI:
- 10.1038/s43017-023-00477-y
- Bibcode:
- 2023NRvEE...4..597G
- Keywords:
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- Biochemistry;
- Biophysics;
- and Structural Biology