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What are other important “protein complexes” that we know of in biology? Seems like they may have relevance as an important precursor in the pathway of the evolution of life

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Far too many to list here, but some interesting ones re the evolution of life might be the complexes responsible for transcription of genes and translation into proteins, such https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_polymerase_III_holoenzyme, RNA polymerase (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_polymerase), and the ribosome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome).

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