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Almost everything about pyrococcus furiosis is amazing, as you'd expect from the name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrococcu
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I don't understand lots of this, but the bits I get are wild. Basically pyrococcus furiosis gets energy through a _single_ enzyme, which turns protons into hydrogen gas (i.e., a proton+electron). That's about as simple as it gets. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P
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Suggests this is very ancient, very primitive.
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Interesting that it's anaerobic (early Earth had very little oxygen). I wonder just how ancient this is?
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Reminded of Wheeler's great advice: "In any field, find the strangest thing and explore it"
There are so many interesting & weird biological machines.
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