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Title: | On the levels of enzymatic substrate specificity: implications for the early evolution of metabolic pathways |
Authors: | Lazcano Araujo Reyes, Antonio Eusebio Díaz Villagómez, E Mills, T Oró, J |
Issue Date: | 1994 |
Citation: | Lazcano A., Díaz Villagómez, E., Mills, T. and J. Oró. 1994. On the levels of enzymatic substrate specificity: implications for the early evolution of metabolic pathways. Advances in Space Research. 15: 345-356 |
Abstract: | The most freequently invoked explanation for the origin of metabolic pathways is the retrograde evolution hypothesis. In contrast, according to the socalled ''patchwork'' theory, metabolism evolved by the recruitment of relatively inefficient small enzymes of broad specificity that could react with a wide range of chemically related substrates. In this paper it is argued that both sequence comparisons and experimental results on enzyme substrate specificity support the patchwork assembly theory. The available evidence supports previous suggestions that gene duplication events followed by a gradual neoDarwinian accumulation of mutations and other minute genetic changes lead to the narrowing and modification of enzyme function in at least some primordial metabolic pathways. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11154/140243 |
ISSN: | 2731177 |
Appears in Collections: | Departamento de Biología Evolutiva
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