Journal article
The origin of heredity in protocells
- Abstract:
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Here we develop a computational model that examines one of the first major biological innovations-the origin of heredity in simple protocells. The model assumes that the earliest protocells were autotrophic, producing organic matter from CO2 and H2 Carbon fixation was facilitated by geologically sustained proton gradients across fatty acid membranes, via iron-sulfur nanocrystals lodged within the membranes. Thermodynamic models suggest that organics formed this way should include amino acids ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 372
- Issue:
- 1735
- Article number:
- 20160419
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-07-25
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2970
- ISSN:
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0962-8436
- Pmid:
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29061892
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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970979
- Local pid:
- pubs:970979
- Deposit date:
- 2020-07-17
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- Copyright holder:
- West et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Rights statement:
- © 2017 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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