2018/03/05 by Søren Toxværd, 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)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1803.01560
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Biosystems contain an almost infinite amount of vital important details,\nwhich together ensure their life. There are, however, some common structures\nand reactions in the systems: the homochirality of carbohydrates and proteins,\nthe metabolism and the genetics. The Abiogenesis, or the origin of life, is\nprobably not a result of a series of single events, but rather the result of a\ngradual process with increasing complexity of molecules and chemical reactions,\nand the prebiotic synthesis of molecules might not have left a trace of the\nestablishment of structures and reactions at the beginning of the evolution.\nBut alternatively, one might be able to determine some order in the formation\nof the chemical denominators in the Abiogenesis. Here we review experimental\nresults and present a model of the start of the Abionenesis, where the\nspontaneous formation of homochirality in proteins is the precondition for the\nestablishment of homochirality of carbohydrates and for the metabolism at the\nstart of the Abiogenesis.\n