Press Releases | December 2, 2021

Tomonari Sumi, Associate Professor of Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University, and Koji Harada, Associate Professor of Center for IT-Based Education, Toyohashi University of Technology, have developed a kinetic hypothesis governing the evolution of the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) based on the simulation of the carbon metabolism of ancient evolutionary microorganisms, which are similar to the LUCA. It was demonstrated using simulation experiments that this hypothesis works with deep-branching bacteria and archaea recorded in the KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) gene database.

Full text: Discovery of a new kinetic factor that governs the carbon metabolism evolution of ancient microbes
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