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Review
. 1995 Feb;2(2):71-5.
doi: 10.1016/1074-5521(95)90278-3.

Evolution in action

T S Scanlan  1 , R C Reid
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Evolution in action

T S Scanlan et al. Chem Biol. 1995 Feb.

Abstract

The alpha/beta barrel enzyme phosphotriesterase from soil bacteria appears to have evolved the ability to hydrolyze the insecticide paraoxon at the diffusion limit in only a few decades. A newly-identified open reading frame from Escherichia coli may offer a clue to its origins.

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