2018/03/05 by Søren Toxværd, Soren Toxvaerd, Toxvaerd, Soren
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #Biomolecules (q-bio.BM) #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction #Origins and Evolution of Life #Protein Structure and Dynamics #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.soft #q-bio.BM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1803.01560
14 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2018/03/05 · openalex publication_date 2018/03/05 · arxiv updated 2018/03/06 · openalex created_date 2022/10/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.