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Using information from conformation-predicting algorithms and X-ray data, a possible mode of structural evolution from an ancestral molecule of about 28 residues to bacterial ferredoxins and rubredoxins is suggested. The possibility of a further evolutionary pathway leading to flavodoxinlike proteins is also indicated.
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von Heijne, G., Blomberg, C. & Baltscheffsky, H. Early evolution of cellular electron transport: Molecular models for the ferredoxin-rubredoxin-flavodoxin region. Origins Life Evol Biosphere 9, 27–37 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00929711
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