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  • Title: Model role for bacteriorhodopsin for solar energy utilization by primordial organisms.
    Author: Wickramasinghe RH.
    Journal: Cytobios; 1976; 17(65):31-3. PubMed ID: 1029640.
    Abstract:
    Enzymes similar in function to contemporary bacteriorhodopsin could have been active in primordial living organisms for the utilization of solar energy to produce ATP. The energy-conversion system, which depends on a light-driven proton pump, is enzymatically simple, insensitive to cyanide inhibition and functional under highly lipid conditions in an anaerobic atmosphere.
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