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Nick Lane on Origins of Life, Consciousness, Alien Life, Krebs Cycle, and Evolution

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Is Complex Two Really a Super Enzyme?

complex is the only enzyme in the creb cycle which is anchored into the membrane itself. It's excluded from these super complexes, so how that works remains a mystery. Complex two pumps fewer protons then complex one - but it has almost the same amount of power. The energy released when electrons go into complex two get through to oxygen is not quite as much as when they come from aneighty h. This is about pushing charge against charge and it's just like gearing on a bike. And its whole thing is energetics; we've barely discovered this world yet.

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