ArticleEmerging topics in life sciences2019
Provisioning the origin and early evolution of life.
Article in Emerging topics in life sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- Evolution at the Origins of Life?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Molecular Crowding Facilitates Ribozyme-Catalyzed RNA Assembly.ACS central science · 2023Article
- Synthesis of prebiotic organics from COScientific reports · 2023Article
- Dynamic Environmental Conditions Affect the Composition of a Model Prebiotic Reaction Network.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023Article
- Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways.Nature chemistry · 2022Article
- Protometabolism as out-of-equilibrium chemistry.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2022Review
- A Nonenzymatic Analog of Pyrimidine Nucleobase Biosynthesis.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2022Article
- Environmental conditions drive self-organization of reaction pathways in a prebiotic reaction network.Nature chemistry · 2022Article
- Thioesters provide a plausible prebiotic path to proto-peptides.Nature communications · 2022Article
- A Plausible Prebiotic One-Pot Synthesis of Orotate and Pyruvate Suggestive of Common Protometabolic Pathways.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2022Article
- Cyanide at the origin of metabolism.Nature chemistry · 2022Article
- Timescales for Prebiotic Photochemistry Under Realistic Surface Ultraviolet Conditions.Astrobiology · 2021Article
- A cyanosulfidic origin of the Krebs cycle.Science advances · 2021Article
- Chiral Amplification of Phosphoramidates of Amines and Amino Acids in Water.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2021Article
- Darwinian properties and their trade-offs in autocatalytic RNA reaction networks.Nature communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
There is a lot of controversy in the origin and early evolution of life field, but most people agree that at the advent of genetically coded protein synthesis, cells must have had access to ribonucleotides, amino acids, lipids and some sort of energy source. However, the provenance of these materials is a contentious issue - did early life obtain its building blocks prefabricated from the environment, or did it synthesise them from feedstocks such as CO
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