ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2009
On the free energy that drove primordial anabolism.
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- A Concept of Complementarity Between Complexity and Redundancy can Account for Kant's Biological Teleology and Unify Mechanistic and Finalistic Biology.Journal of molecular evolution · 2024Article
- The isothermal Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy reduction affects survival of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Bioelectric Fields at the Beginnings of Life.Bioelectricity · 2022Review
- Photoswitchable single-stranded DNA-peptide coacervate formation as a dynamic system for reaction control.iScience · 2021Article
- A hydrogen-dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism.Nature ecology & evolution · 2020Article
- The Future of Origin of Life Research: Bridging Decades-Old Divisions.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Early evolution without a tree of life.Biology direct · 2011Review
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Abstract
A key problem in understanding the origin of life is to explain the mechanism(s) that led to the spontaneous assembly of molecular building blocks that ultimately resulted in the appearance of macromolecular structures as they are known in modern biochemistry today. An indispensable thermodynamic prerequisite for such a primordial anabolism is the mechanistic coupling to processes that supplied the free energy required. Here I review different sources of free energy and discuss the potential of each form having been involved in the very first anabolic reactions that were fundamental to increase molecular complexity and thus were essential for life.
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