Curious triangle fractal naturally formed in bacteria at molecular level (as 1st step in citric acid cycle)
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07287-2
Bacteria citrate synthase enzyme formed a Sierpiński triangle
Youtube Video"By comparing the fractal enzyme to genetic sequences from other bacteria, the team also traced its evolutionary history. “It popped into existence very suddenly and was then almost immediately lost again by a few different versions of bacteria, and only stuck around in this one cyanobacterium, which makes our discovery of it almost more bizarre, because our chances of finding it were basically near zero,” says Hochberg." “Fractals are simple, algorithmically. They should be relatively easy to evolve. Even if they are not adaptive, they may very well exist in a wider range of protein complexes.”