TY - JOUR
T1 - The start of the Abiogenesis
T2 - Preservation of homochirality in proteins as a necessary and sufficient condition for the establishment of the metabolism
AU - Toxværd, Søren
PY - 2018/5/9
Y1 - 2018/5/9
N2 - Biosystems contain an almost infinite amount of vital important details, which together ensure their life. There are, however, some common structures and reactions in the systems: the homochirality of carbohydrates and proteins, the metabolism and the genetics. The Abiogenesis, or the origin of life, is probably not a result of a series of single events, but rather the result of a gradual process with increasing complexity of molecules and chemical reactions, and the prebiotic synthesis of molecules might not have left a trace of the establishment of structures and reactions at the beginning of the evolution. But alternatively, one might be able to determine some order in the formation of the chemical denominators in the Abiogenesis. Here we review experimental results and present a model of the start of the Abionenesis, where the spontaneous formation of homochirality in proteins is the precondition for the establishment of homochirality of carbohydrates and for the metabolism at the start of the Abiogenesis.
AB - Biosystems contain an almost infinite amount of vital important details, which together ensure their life. There are, however, some common structures and reactions in the systems: the homochirality of carbohydrates and proteins, the metabolism and the genetics. The Abiogenesis, or the origin of life, is probably not a result of a series of single events, but rather the result of a gradual process with increasing complexity of molecules and chemical reactions, and the prebiotic synthesis of molecules might not have left a trace of the establishment of structures and reactions at the beginning of the evolution. But alternatively, one might be able to determine some order in the formation of the chemical denominators in the Abiogenesis. Here we review experimental results and present a model of the start of the Abionenesis, where the spontaneous formation of homochirality in proteins is the precondition for the establishment of homochirality of carbohydrates and for the metabolism at the start of the Abiogenesis.
KW - Abiogenesis
KW - Homochirality
KW - Metabolism
U2 - 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.05.009
DO - 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.05.009
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0022-5193
SP - 117
EP - 121
JO - Journal of Theoretical Biology
JF - Journal of Theoretical Biology
IS - 451
ER -