The origin of life on Earth is widely believed to have required the reactions of organic compounds and their self- and/or environmental organization. What those compounds were remains open to debate, as do the environment in and process or processes by which they became organized. Prebiotic chemistry is the systematic organized study of these phenomena. It is difficult to study poorly defined phenomena, and research has focused on producing compounds and structures familiar to contemporary biochemistry, which may or may not have been crucial for the origin of life. Given our ignorance, it may be instructive to explore the extreme regions of known and future investigations of prebiotic chemistry, where reactions fail, that will relate them to or exclude them from plausible environments where they could occur. Come critical parameters which most deserve investigation are discussed.

Science Assignment Help, Chemical evolution of spontaneous generation, Chemical Evolution The question of how life came into being in the first place still remained unanswered. To find an answer to this question means looking back billions of years in time and trying to imagine what the conditions on the earth co

Chemical reactions driven by the geological conditions on the early Earth might have led to the prebiotic evolution of self-replicating molecules. Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet (LMU) in Munich now report on a hydrothermal mechanism that could have promoted the process. Life is a product of evolution by natural selection. Thats…

Chemical Evolution. Carbohydrates and Lipids. Biochemistry. Systematic study of the molecular nature of life processes: the chemicals that make up of living systems (biochemicals), their organization into cells, and their chemical interactions Biochemicals have no life in themselves...

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4.2. The Halo The Galactic halo does not appear to suffer from a severe G-dwarf problem (Laird et al 1988, Pagel 1989, Beers et al 1992). The halo metallicity ranges from -4 dex to just below the solar value, with a mean of ~ -1.6 (Laird et al 1988, Hartwick 1976), Hartwick (1976) noted that this low metallicity suggested that either the halo yield was much lower than in the disk or that gas was removed from halo star formation (e.g. Ostriker & Thuan 1975). The favored model is that the halo lost its gas before chemical evolution could go to completion. Carney et al (1990), Wyse & Gilmore (1992) suggested that the missing spheroid mass fell to the center of the Galaxy and contributed most of the bulge mass, based on angular momentum considerations. Whether or not there is a minimum metallicity level, below which stars do not exist, has been debated for at least 20 years. Hartquist & Cameron (1977) predicted that there was an era of pregalactic nucleosynthesis by very massive zero metallicity ...

The central role that phosphates play in biological systems, suggests they also played an important role in the emergence of life on Earth. In recent years, numerous important advances have been made towards understanding the influence that phosphates may have had on prebiotic chemistry, and here, we highlight two important aspects of prebiotic phosphate chemistry. Firstly, we discuss prebiotic phosphorylation reactions; we specifically contrast aqueous electrophilic phosphorylation, and aqueous nucleophilic phosphorylation strategies, with dry-state phosphorylations that are mediated by dissociative phosphoryl-transfer. Secondly, we discuss the non-structural roles that phosphates can play in prebiotic chemistry. Here, we focus on the mechanisms by which phosphate has guided prebiotic reactivity through catalysis or buffering effects, to facilitating selective transformations in neutral water. Several prebiotic routes towards the synthesis of nucleotides, amino acids, and core metabolites, that have

The RNA world hypothesis is supported by RNAs ability to store, transmit, and duplicate genetic information, as DNA does. RNA can act as a ribozyme, a special type of enzyme. Because it can perform the tasks of both DNA and enzymes, RNA is believed to have once been capable of supporting independent life forms.[15] Some viruses use RNA as their genetic material, rather than DNA.[45] Further, while nucleotides were not found in experiments based on Miller-Urey experiment, their formation in prebiotically plausible conditions was reported in 2009;[22] the purine base known as adenine is merely a pentamer of hydrogen cyanide. Experiments with basic ribozymes, like Bacteriophage Qβ RNA, have shown that simple self-replicating RNA structures can withstand even strong selective pressures (e.g., opposite-chirality chain terminators).[46] Since there were no known chemical pathways for the abiogenic synthesis of nucleotides from pyrimidine nucleobases cytosine and uracil under prebiotic conditions, it ...

Our research objective is to understand and model the chemical processes on the primitive Earth that generated the first autocatalytic molecules and microstructures involved in the origin of life. Our approach involves (a) investigation of a model origin-of-life process named the Sugar Model that is based on the reaction of formaldehyde-derived sugars with ammonia and amines, and (b) elucidation of the constraints imposed on the chemistry of the origin of life by the fixed energies and rates of aliphatic organic reactions under mild aqueous conditions. The Sugar Model is a plausible one-pot prebiotic process that converts very simple substrates (formaldehyde, glycolaldehyde, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide) to a variety of products: small catalytic molecules, energy-rich thioesters and phosphoanhydrides. More recently we showed (a) that homochiral amines (like amino acids and peptides) catalyze the stereoselective synthesis of tetrose sugars from glycolaldehyde, and (b) that sugar-amine (or ...

Lifes origin requires a molecule that can both store information and catalyze the synthesis of other molecules. RNA can catalyze simple reactions and can help as a template for protein synthesis and for more RNA synthesis. This suggests that RNA was probably the first genetic molecule to start life. Later we suspect that DNA evolved to be a more stable molecule, and proteins evolved to be more efficient enzymes. RNA with catalytic activity is referred to as ribozyme ...

An artificial chemistry is a chemical-like system that usually consists of objects, called molecules, that interact according to rules resembling chemical reaction rules. Artificial chemistries are created and studied in order to understand fundamental properties of chemical systems, including prebiotic evolution, as well as for developing chemical computing systems. Artificial chemistry is a field within computer science wherein chemical reactions-often biochemical ones-are computer-simulated, yielding insights on evolution, self-assembly, and other biochemical phenomena. The field does not use actual chemicals, and should not be confused with either synthetic chemistry or computational chemistry. Rather, bits of information are used to represent the starting molecules, and the end products are examined along with the processes that led to them. The field originated in artificial life but has shown to be a versatile method with applications in many fields such as chemistry, economics, sociology ...

The free nucleobases and mononucleotides of RNA do not form Watson-Crick base pairs in water, a fact that presents several challenges for the prebiotic synthesis of RNA. 2,6-Diaminopurine and adenosine-5′-monophosphate (AMP) are shown to form supramolecular assemblies with cyanuric acid in water. These assem Prebiotic chemistry and the molecular origins of life

As I understand it, plasmids, like mitochondria, have their own genetic material and are capable of self-replication. According to Wikipedia: Plasmids are considered replicons, units of DNA capable of replicating autonomously within a suitable host. However, like viruses, they are not classified as life. Plasmids are transmitted from one bacterium to another through conjugation. Unlike viruses, plasmids are naked DNA. However, some classes of plasmids encode the conjugative sex pilus necessary for their own transfer. My understanding of that is that a bacteria gets their plasmids not because of the replication of their circular chromosome, nor because that chromosome have genes to code for the plasmid (I dont really know if thats possible), but because of the self-replication of their own plasmids. So, my question is how the first plasmid got into the first bacteria, if they are not in their chromosomes? Were they a virus other prokaryotic cell that had circular DNA, and got phagocytosed ...

As the cellular physiology is the outcome of enzymatic activity, so the enzymes must have developed before the cells. Gradually the gene aggregates became surrounded by a complex system of enzymes which formed the cytoplasm. These enzymes could have combined the nitrogen bases, simple sugars and phosphates into the nucleotides. Nucleotides might have combined to form nucleic acid which appear to be the biomolecules fulfilling the condition of supply of replicators in the origin of life. Presently the molecular biology operates on the principle of central dogma which states that flow of genetic informations is unidirectional and is shown as below: DNA (Transcription) → RNA (Translation) → Protein (With genetic informations) (With genetic message) This mechanism probably evolved from much simpler mechanism. Nucleic acid and proteins (enzymes) are two interdependent biomolecules. Proteins are synthesized by a process that begins with the transcription of informations from DNA to mRNA followed ...

Evolution and Biodiversity, Biological evolution, or evolution is the change in a populations genetic makeup through successive generations., While the Earth itself may be a billion years old, modern humans didnt exist until only 65 million years ago., After this chemical evolution had formed cells, biological evolution took place, creating single-celled prokayotic bacteria into single-celled eukayotic cells., Evidence indicates that Earths life is the result of around 1 billion years of chemical evolution to form the first cells., Origin of Earth, Natural Selection, occurs when some individuals of a population have genetically based traits that increase their chance of survival., If the trait helps the individual significantly, than chances are the rest of the population will develop these characteristics, Adaptive traits are any heritable trait that enables organisms to better survive., In all communities, species all have ecological niches. These are the species role in their environment/community

In the first paper we showed that you can create tension between a chemical and physical system to give rise to more complex systems. And in the second paper, we showed that these complex systems can have remarkable and unexpected functions, says David Lynn, a systems chemist in Emorys Department of Chemistry who led the research. The work was inspired by our current understanding of Darwinian selection of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases ...

In the first paper we showed that you can create tension between a chemical and physical system to give rise to more complex systems. And in the second paper, we showed that these complex systems can have remarkable and unexpected functions, says David Lynn, a systems chemist in Emorys Department of Chemistry who led the research. The work was inspired by our current understanding of Darwinian selection of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases ...

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Newly formed protocell. Image 2 of 5. Artwork showing cellular components inside a basic cell membrane. This protocell (artificial cell) was formed from a synthetic primeval soup containing PNA (peptide nucleic acid, orange), fatty acids (blue) and lysosomes (enzyme-producing organelles, yellow). The primeval soup was a mix of carbon based molecules that chemically evolved to form simple cells, at the beginning of life. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, attempted to recreate this in 2006 by making protocells. Here, the loose components have arranged themselves into an ordered structure resembling a simple cell. See G200/112-G200/116 for a series of images showing the creation of a protocell. - Stock Image G200/0113

The PAH World is a novel chemical structural model for the plausible formation of oligomeric proto-informational templating materials on the early Earth; presumably progenitors of the widely expected RNA World in chemical evolution theory. The model is based on the self-assembling discotic mesogenic behaviors of polynuclear aromatic compounds, their photochemical edge-derivatizations, and the selectivity of such stacked supramolecular aromatic core scaffolds for the edge-on binding and ~ 0.34 nm plane-parallel spacing of essentially random collections of small prebiotic heterocycles, taken up and concentrated directly from the presumed and surrounding dilute primordial soup. The constrained inter-base separation distance would select for oligomerizing linkers of fairly specific size, such as small methanal oligomers, which would also be taken up from the prebiotic chemical environment, condensing with the small heterocycles and also with each other to form the flexible structural ...

A simple mechanism could underlie the growth and self-replication of protocells-;putative ancestors of modern living cells-;suggests a study publishing September 3 in Biophysical Journal.

Scientists suggest a new way to study how biomolecules and minerals combined in Earths primordial soup.Provided by the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C.

This research shows how some of the basic building blocks of life could have been naturally occuring in an early Earth like environment. ...

Earths origin and evolution, isotope and trace element geochemistry, the role of crust and lithospheric mantle recycling in the generation of mantle chemical heterogeneity, the origin and distribution of water and other volatile elements in the Earths interior, and the thermal and chemical evolution of the Earths core and core/mantle ...

For cellular organisms, the transport of specific molecules across compartmentalizing membrane barriers is essential in order to exchange content with their environment and with other individuals. For example, content exchange between individuals enables horizontal gene transfer, an important factor in the evolution of cellular life.[30] While modern cells can rely on complicated protein machineries to catalyze these crucial processes, protocells must have accomplished this using more simple mechanisms. Protocells composed of fatty acids[31] would have been able to easily exchange small molecules and ions with their environment.[1] Membranes consisting of fatty acids have a relatively high permeability to molecules such as nucleoside monophosphate (NMP), nucleoside diphosphate (NDP), and nucleoside triphosphate (NTP), and may withstand millimolar concentrations of Mg2+.[32] Osmotic pressure can also play a significant role regarding this passive membrane transport.[1] Environmental effects have ...

We report the design, synthesis, and assembly of the 1.08-mega-base pair Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 genome starting from digitized genome sequence information and its transplantation into a M. capricolum recipient cell to create new M. mycoides cells that are controlled only by the synthetic chromosome. The only DNA in the cells is the designed synthetic DNA sequence, including watermark sequences and other designed gene deletions and polymorphisms, and mutations acquired during the building process. The new cells have expected phenotypic properties and are capable of continuous self-replication.. ...

Do Mac viruses exist? In a nutshell, yes. Wondering why? Heres the thing: lots of people refer to all forms of malicious code as viruses. Strictly speaking, this is a misconception because computer viruses are programs that exhibit self-replication capabilities.. However, there is an aspect that blurs the categorization. Present-day malware can be modular, which means it comes with several components under the same hood. Some of these modules are tasked with contaminating a system, while others perform the propagation part of the job. Additionally . . .. ...

Protein-only (prion) epigenetic elements confer unique phenotypes by adopting alternate conformations that specify new traits. Given the conformational flexibility of prion proteins, protein-only inheritance requires efficient self-replication of the underlying conformation. To explore the cellular …

There cannot be any doubt that Americas renowed upward social mobility is a thing of the past. If anything, the U.S. now excels in the self-replication of economic elites - as Europe did in the 19th century.

As we know, Immunotherapy have the proficiency of multiple-differentiation and infinite proliferation, and Immunotherapy have the characteristics of immune regulation and self-replication. Therefore, it can be used as seed cells to repair the impairment or injuries of various tissues and organs. And in recent years, it has been discovered that Immunotherapy can differentiate into renal intrinsic cells and renal essence cells, so Immunotherapy have the function of repair and rebuild for the damaged kidneys. Whats more, Immunotherapy have the same effective mechanism of micro-chinese medicine osmotherapy, so the two therapies have the function of supplement each other ...

This is common behavior in BOINC projects, especially if you have just switched from another project to RNA World or if the work units of a given BOINC project are very heterogenous compared to each other. RNA World work units are de facto extremely heterogenous in their system requirements. For each computation, a series of small mini simulations is run on the server to estimate the time required for completion on the server. Since your machine differs from our server hardware, information based on the benchmarks performed from time to time on your machine are used to scale the duration determined for that work unit on the server to your machine. This scaling process is good but not perfectly accurate. So, the first work units often differ detectably in completion time from what the progress bar indicates. But, with more and more work units of that type pouring in on your system, a BOINC-integrated calculation mechanism corrects for that deviation in a progressive manner. So, with time, this ...

RNA World (beta) is not a project financed by universities or private commercial entities. It runs entirely on donations and money from the members of the Rechenkraft.net e.V. non-profit organisation.. The Rechenkraft.net e.V. yearly budget is only round about 2400,- EUR and RNA World (beta) is only one project of this NPO. Therefore your help is needed to keep the project running: ...

I think the major obstacle to chemical evolution is to explain controlled cell growth. I do not know of a reason why, at the early stages of the Earths history, controlled cell growth should replace uncontrolled cell growth (or dominate before it even uncontrolled cell growth even came to be), because exploding and uncontrolled cell growth of a particular species could result be a Darwinian advantage rather a disadvantage. A controlled cell growth of a multicelluar organism would be disrupted after eating cancer cells for breakfast (unless if it had a cure for cancer built in), thus it is unlikely that a controlled cell growth organism could kill a uncontrolled cell growth organism by eating it, nor would it automatically do so. Cancer requires an energy source like any other life. It acquires growth through sugar and fat. Once you got those and some other essentials such as proteins, you can support the growth of cancer. Cancer is not inhibited by a cell clock, which in itself requires ...

UV-driven photoredox processing of cyanocuprates can generate simple sugars necessary for prebiotic synthesis. We investigate the wavelength dependence of this process from 215 to 295 nm and generally observe faster rates at shorter wavelengths. The most efficient wavelengths are accessible to a range of pot

Understanding the presuppositions and goals of the researchers to properly read the secular literature carefully, especially with chemical evolution (abiogenesis)

Jacob, D., J. Crawford, M. Kleb, V. Conners, R. Bendura, J. Raper, G. Sachse, J. Gille, and L. Emmons, The transport and chemical evolution over the Pacific (TRACE-P) mission: Design, execution, and overview of first results, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D20), 8781, doi:10.1029/2002JD003276, in press, 2003 ...

For the first time, a unified chemical pathway provides all four RNA building blocks needed to kick-start life under plausible prebiotic conditions.

Replicators are fundamental to the origin of life and evolvability. Their survival depends on the accuracy of replication and the efficiency of growth relative to spontaneous decay. Infrabiological systems are built of two coupled autocatalytic systems, in contrast to minimal living systems that must comprise at least a metabolic subsystem, a hereditary subsystem and a boundary, serving respective functions. Some scenarios prefer to unite all these functions into one primordial system, as illustrated in the lipid world scenario, which is considered as a didactic example in detail. Experimentally produced chemical replicators grow parabolically owing to product inhibition. A selection consequence is survival of everybody. The chromatographized replicator model predicts that such replicators spreading on surfaces can be selected for higher replication rate because double strands are washed away slower than single strands from the surface. Analysis of real ribozymes suggests that the error ...

Page contains details about transposase oligomers-encapsulated lipid-based nanoparticle-like protocells . It has composition images, properties, Characterization methods, synthesis, applications and reference articles : nano.nature.com

We consider a generic protocell model consisting of any conservative chemical reaction network embedded within a membrane. The membrane results from the self-assembly of a membrane precursor and is se

The problem of the start of biological evolution in the ancient RNA world is considered. It is postulated that the appearance of catalytic RNAs - ribozymes - via spontaneous cis- and trans-rearrangeme

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The crux of the argument is the evaluation of P(E,~S). The intuition of many would be to judge this probability large. Matters become stickier when asked to provide a reason for their intuition. The Many Worlds hypothesis is one such response. This is like asking what is the probability of a coin flipped a very large (effectively infinite) number of times landing on its edge? Given a nearly infinite number of tries even an astronomically low probability event will occur. By this means the event E, despite its seeming low probability, will occur. As a consequence, P(E,~S) will be judged large. What is missing in your Bayesian description is the Background or context in which the judgment is made. We might say, e.g., that P(E,~S & ~ManyWorlds) to be very small and the P(E,~S & ManyWorlds) is large. I suppose we could compare the ManyWorlds hypothesis and the hypothesis of the existence of an intelligent designer. There is one possibility favored by many: the Just-Is hypothesis. This ...

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The origin of life on Earth is a scientific problem which is not yet solved. There are plenty of ideas, but few clear facts.[1] It is generally agreed that all life today evolved by common descent from a single primitive lifeform.[2] It is not known how this early form came about, but scientists think it was a natural process which took place perhaps 3,900 million years ago. This is in accord with the philosophy of naturalism: only natural causes are admitted. It is not known whether metabolism or genetics came first. The main hypothesis which supports genetics first is the RNA world hypothesis, and the one which supports metabolism first is the protein world hypothesis. Another big problem is how cells develop. All existing forms of life are built out of cells.[3] Melvin Calvin, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, wrote a book on the subject,[4] and so did Alexander Oparin.[5] What links most of the early work on the origin of life is the idea that before life began there must have been ...

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How did life originate? And can scientists create life? These questions not only occupy the minds of scientists interested in the origin of life, but also researchers working with technology of the future.. If we can create artificial living systems, we may not only understand the origin of life - we can also revolutionize the future of technology.. Protocells are the simplest, most primitive living systems, you can think of. The oldest ancestor of life on Earth was a protocell, and when we see, what it eventually managed to evolve into, we understand why science is so fascinated with protocells. If science can create an artificial protocell, we get a very basic ingredient for creating more advanced artificial life.. However, creating an artificial protocell is far from simple, and so far no one has managed to do that. One of the challenges is to create the information strings that can be inherited by cell offspring, including protocells. Such information strings are like modern DNA or RNA ...

A new robotic system at Georgia Techs Center for Chemical Evolution could soon let scientists better simulate and analyze the chemical reactions of early Earth on the surface of real rocks to further test the theory that catalytic minerals on a meteorites surface could have jump-started lifes first chemical reactions.

Now, researchers working with that hypothesis have achieved a significant advancement toward understanding an evolutionary mystery - how components of RNA and DNA formed from chemicals present on early Earth before life existed.. In surprisingly simple laboratory reactions in water, under everyday conditions, they have produced what could be good candidates for missing links on the pathway to the code of life.. And when those components joined up, the result even looked like RNA.. As the researchers work progresses, it could reveal that much of the original chemistry that led to life arose not in fiery cataclysms and in scarce quantities, but abundantly and gradually on quiet, rain-swept dirt flats or lakeshore rocks lapped by waves.. In turn, their work could increase our understanding of the probability of lifes existence elsewhere in the universe.. The research from the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, headquartered at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is generously funded through ...

Explain the difference between the morphological species concept and the biological species concept.. With the morphological species concept, individuals are grouped into species by appearance and professional judgment. Those individuals that appear similar to one another are considered one species. This concept was the origin of taxonomy. Criticisms of this method are that it is arbitrary and that it may not be able to discriminate, for example, when one species mimics another. The biological species concept defines a species as a group of actually or potentially interbreeding individuals who are reproductively isolated from other groups. Individuals must be able to produce successful fertile offspring. Shortcomings of this concept are that it cannot be used with fossils or spatially disconnected populations.. Potential Question ...

For normal lifelong lung function, the prerequisites are: (1) normal lung function at birth; (2) normal growth in lung function until the adult plateau at 20-25 years of age; and (3) no accelerated deterioration from the plateau. Cohort studies have established that lung function either tracks or deteriorates, but never improves, after the preschool years.26-28 Thus, lung function in adult life is critically dependent on in utero and post-natal lung development.. An important antenatal factor affecting newborn lung function is maternal smoking, which causes structural effects on the developing lung.29 A study in more than 13 000 people showed that childhood disadvantage defined by either maternal or paternal asthma, childhood asthma, maternal smoking and childhood respiratory infections predicts worse adult lung function, a faster rate of lung function decline, and a greater prevalence of COPD.30 Other important influences include maternal antibiotic31 and paracetamol32 use, maternal ...

Teacher instructions such as: students should go home with the understanding that a new paradigm of explaining lifes origins is emerging from the failed attempts of naturalistic scenarios. This new way of thinking is predicated upon the hypothesis that intelligent input is necessary for lifes origins. (Module 8, Teacher Resources, Slide 3 ...

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The prebiotic replication of information-coding molecules is a central problem concerning lifes origins. Here, we report that amyloids composed of short peptides can direct the sequence-selective, regioselective and stereoselective condensation of amino acids. The addition of activated DL-arginine and DL-phenylalanine to the peptide RFRFR-NH2 in the presence of the complementary template peptide Ac-FEFEFEFE-NH2 yields the isotactic product FRFRFRFR-NH2, 1 of 64 possible triple addition products, under conditions in which the absence of template yields only single and double additions of mixed stereochemistry. The templating mechanism appears to be general in that a different amyloid formed by (Orn)V(Orn)V(Orn)V(Orn)V-NH2 and Ac-VDVDVDVDV-NH2 is regioselective and stereoselective for N-terminal, L-amino-acid addition while the ornithine-valine peptide alone yields predominantly sidechain condensation products with little stereoselectivity. Furthermore, the templating reaction is stable over a wide range

Salt-induced peptide formation reaction has been suggested. to be prebiotically relevant BAY 63-2521 clinical trial for the very first steps of chemical evolution (Schwendinger and Rode 1989). Based on Monte Carlo computer simulations, Rode and co-workers found that sodium chloride at concentrations above 3 M effectively acts as a dehydrating agent to overcome the thermodynamic barrier of peptide bond formation in aqueous solutions, and the first this website hydration shell of the sodium ion was assumed to no longer be saturated with water molecules (Jakschitz and Rode 2012). Furthermore, using HPLC-MS/MS analysis, a high concentration of sodium chloride was found to significantly enhance the formation of peptides from L-glutamic acid (L-Glu) in homogenous water solutions (Wang et al. 2005). All the references we have found that discuss the presence of other mono- and divalent inorganic cations in prebiotic peptide formation speculate that these. ions support the dehydrating effect of sodium ...

Autocatalysis is essential for the origin of life and chemical evolution. However, the lack of a unified framework so far prevents a systematic study of autocatalysis. Here, we derive, from basic principles, general stoichiometric conditions for catalysis and autocatalysis in chemical reaction networks. This allows for a classification of minimal autocatalytic motifs called cores. While all known autocatalytic systems indeed contain minimal motifs, the classification also reveals hitherto unidentified motifs. We further examine conditions for kinetic viability of such networks, which depends on the autocatalytic motifs they contain and is notably increased by internal catalytic cycles. Finally, we show how this framework extends the range of conceivable autocatalytic systems, by applying our stoichiometric and kinetic analysis to autocatalysis emerging from coupled compartments. The unified approach to autocatalysis presented in this work lays a foundation toward the building of a systems-level ...

In conclusion, much elegant work has been done starting from activated mono-nucleotides. However, the prebiotic synthesis of a specific macromolecular sequence does not seem to be at hand, giving us the same problem we have with polypeptide sequences. Since there is no ascertained prebiotic pathway to their synthesis, it may be useful to try to conceive some working hypothesis. In order to do that, I would first like to consider a preliminary question about the proteins we have on our Earth: Why these proteins … and not other ones?. Discussing this question can in fact give us some clue as to how orderly sequences might have originated. […] A grain of sand in the Sahara - This is indeed a central question in our world of proteins. How have they been selected out? There is a well-known arithmetic at the basis of this question, (see for example De Duve, 2002) which says that for a polypeptide chain with 100 residues, 20^100 different chains are in principle possible: a number so large that ...

The computer code, written in C++, hosts the DNA sequence of M.mycoides JCVI-syn1.0. At runtime it acts as follows: 1) Preparing the DNA sequence of M.mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 in the memory, (with slightly modified watermarks). 2) Encoding own file-content in base32. The base32 code is then encoded in JCVIs DNA-encoded alphabet. 3) This representation of its digital form is then copied to a watermark of the bacterias genome in memory. With this, a fully functional bacterial DNA sequence including the digital code is generated. 4) Next it searches for FASTA-files on the computer, which are text-based representations of DNA sequences, commonly used by many DNA sequence libraries. 5) For each FASTA-file, it replaces the original DNA with the bacterial DNA containing the digital form of the computer code. The code has a classical self-replication mechanism as well, to eventually end up on a computer in a microbiology-laboratory with the ability of creating DNA out of digital genomes (such as ...

Cell Cycle includes many processes necessary for successful self-replication, and consists of DNA synthesis (S) and mitosis (M) phases separated by gap phases in the order G1-S-G2-M. S phase and M phase are usually separated by gap phases called G1 and G2, when cell-cycle progression can be regulated by various intracellular and extracellular signals. In order to move from one phase of its life cycle to the next, a cell must pass through numerous checkpoints. At each checkpoint, specialized proteins determine whether the necessary conditions exist. Progression through G1 phase is controlled by pRB proteins, and phosphorylation of pRB proteins by CDKs releases E2F factors, promoting the transition to S phase. The G2/M transition that commits cells to division is a default consequence of initiating the cell cycle at the G1/S transition, many proteins, such Wee1, PLK1 and cdc25, is involved the regulation of this process. The best-understood checkpoints are those activated by DNA damage and ...

The above-mentioned three examples in-dicate the intricate structure and operation of the cell. No one has any experience of a machine that developed without a design-ers plan and specifications: therefore its reasonable to consider the possibility that such complex arrangements came about by a preconceived design. Unfortunately, such commonsense conclusions have no place in the currently dominant theories about the evolution of life. Rather, the pro-ponents of chemical evolution struggle to manufacture alternative explanations that refer only to blind chance and the imper-sonal laws of physics.. The most common scenario portrayed by chemical-evolution theorists begins more than four billion years ago, when clouds of gases and dust are believed to have con-densed on the earths ancient surface and gradually formed the primal atmosphere. Activated by ultraviolet light and electric bolts, this primitive atmosphere is sup-posed to have spontaneously given birth to organic chemical compounds, ...

Cancer stem cells are cancer cells that have the characteristics of healthy stem cells in the human body. The possibility of self-replication and differentiation in different cell types ensures their tumorigenicity while low proliferation rates with active membrane pumps and repair enzymes provide resistance to conventional chemotherapy. Their presence is proven in osteosarcoma and can be extracted from tumor mass based on the ability to grow in spheres - sarcospheres. Given that it is an extremely malignant tumor, the development of specific therapies targeting that population of cells is necessary to improve patient survival. Due to their resistance mechanisms, it is difficult to selectively target them. This study investigated the effect of ascorbic acid on osteosarcoma stem cells and its selectivity depending on the concentration of ascorbic acid and the number and origin of cells. The effects of ascorbic acid have been determined by viability tests, sarcosphere growth inhibition assays, ...

The new Scripps Research Institute study shows flu virus proteins in the act of self-replication. Shown here is the influenza virus, which encapsidates its RNA genome (green) with a viral nucleoprotein (blue); the influenza virus polymerase (orange) reads and copies the RNA genome. In the background is an image of influenza virus ribonucleoprotein complexes observed using cryo-electron microscopy.

[Pathogenic factors of mycoplasma].: Mycoplasmas are smallest organisms capable of self-replication and cause various diseases in human. Especially, Mycoplasma

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The NASA DC-8 and P-3B aircraft flew within about a kilometer or less of each other on three occasions during the Transport and Chemical Evolution Over the Pacific (TRACE-P) campaign in order to intercompare similar measurements on the two aircraft. The first and last intercomparisons were in relatively remote marine environments during transits to and from Asia. The first began with a boundary layer measurement followed by an ascent to 3 km. The second set of intercomparisons was at a fixed altitude of about 5.2 km off the coast of Japan, also in relatively clean air. Finally, the third measurement began at 5.3 km and then descended into the boundary layer. A number of measurements were compared with the best agreement observed for the most abundant compounds such as CO2 and CH4 and with very good agreement for CO, O3, and j values. Other comparisons, including measurements of the same compounds on both aircraft and measurements of the same compound by two different instruments on the DC-8, varied over

One of the most famous experiments of all time, Miller-Urey, was even more successful than thought and could hold the key to lifes origin

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Define prebiotic: of, relating to, or being chemical or environmental precursors of the origin of life; also : existing or … - prebiotic in a sentence

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Recent experimental work in the field of synthetic protocell biology has shown that prebiotic vesicles are able to steal lipids from each other. This phenomenon is driven purely by asymmetries in the physical state or composition of the vesicle membranes, and, when lipid resource is limited, translates directly into competition amongst the vesicles. Such a scenario is interesting from an origins of life perspective because a rudimentary form of cell-level selection emerges. To sharpen intuition about possible mechanisms underlying this behaviour, experimental work must be complemented with theoretical modelling. The aim of this paper is to provide a coarse-grain mathematical model of protocell lipid competition. Our model is capable of reproducing, often quantitatively, results from core experimental papers that reported distinct types vesicle competition. Additionally, we make some predictions untested in the lab, and develop a general numerical method for quickly solving the equilibrium ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Collaboration between primitive cell membranes and soluble catalysts. AU - Adamala, Katarzyna P.. AU - Engelhart, Aaron E.. AU - Szostak, Jack W.. PY - 2016/3/21. Y1 - 2016/3/21. N2 - One widely held model of early life suggests primitive cells consisted of simple RNA-based catalysts within lipid compartments. One possible selective advantage conferred by an encapsulated catalyst is stabilization of the compartment, resulting from catalyst-promoted synthesis of key membrane components. Here we show model protocell vesicles containing an encapsulated enzyme that promotes the synthesis of simple fatty acid derivatives become stabilized to Mg 2+, which is required for ribozyme activity and RNA synthesis. Thus, protocells capable of such catalytic transformations would have enjoyed a selective advantage over other protocells in high Mg 2+ environments. The synthetic transformation requires both the catalyst and vesicles that solubilize the water-insoluble precursor lipid. We suggest ...

A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that is capable of building, copying and containing DNA.

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The first recent major use of this concept by a scholar, in Mystery of Lifes Origin (1984) by Charles Thaxton, compared operations science (plural) with origins science, which is one type of historical science, or perhaps is a narrow way to view historical science. Logically, we could call it either operations science (because different areas of science study the many different operations of nature) or operation science (if we view the many operations as being combined into a unified overall operation of nature). A prominent young-earth organization, Answers in Genesis, calls it operation science. But in his recent book Signature in the Cell (2009), Stephen Meyer follows Thaxton in calling it operations science. Originally I also used Thaxtons term and called it operations science, but I recently changed it to operation science, partly because in a recent Google-search in 2010, I found 300 entries for one search [operation science historical science] but only 80 when using the analogous ...

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The DNA of the nucleus is present in the form of chromosomes. Structural studies on chromosomes have recently been reviewed by Ris (1967). Each chromosome represents a large amount of genetic information since it contains many times the DNA of the bacterial genome. , those in the nucleated red cells of birds) are unfolded, they are seen to be made up of fibers some 250 A thick. These fibers can be further disrupted into fibrils 60-100 A thick and composed of a central double helix of DNA with a protein coat, the DNA molecule being much folded on itself within the fibril. Jacob and Monod, 1961). In fact, Gilbert and Muller-Hill (1966) have identified the product of the i gene chemi- cally to be a protein. From Escherichia coli they isolated a protein fraction that had a high affinity for the lac inducer molecule isopropylβ-D-thiogalactoside; E. coli mutants lacking the i gene did not yield this protein. The protein was found to have a molecular weight of about 150,000-200,000. A similar ...

From the prebiotic recruitment of the basic building blocks to create life to the transition of their synthesis in living cells, a major problem without invokin

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DuPonts prebiotic fibre could exert positive benefits to the gut microbiome, according to an animal study featured in Nature which also raises future implications on skin, metabolic and even brain health.

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When I got sick, the doctors sent samples to the Federal health authorities for testing. I saw a copy of the report. It said, What the hell is this? written off on one side of the report. Viruses have to go dormant and then mutate in order to flourish. They are the nearest life form on earth to the classic go to infinity, fast model that I talk about all the time. This is rather funny because viruses are one of the oldest life forms if not the oldest. They prefer non-oxygen environments and when mutations in the early earth waters created photosynthesis organisms, these multiplied very rapidly, pushing hard on the viral community ...

Despite decades of persistent failure to create life by the spark in the soup method,1 evolutionary biochemists are still trying to find an exclusively naturalistic explanation for how the first cell developed. Many possible chemical precursors to life have been systematically ruled out by rigorous experiments. What they have found is that the molecules necessary for life are found exclusively within cells that are already living.. One explanation proposed by evolutionists was the RNA world hypothesis, which holds that the first molecules to have spontaneously materialized in an ancient chemical soup were RNAs.2 This has met with too many obstacles to remain viable, so an embellishment to the RNA world was recently proposed by Thomas Cech in the journal Cell.3 He suggested that the first molecules to evolve toward life were ribonucleoproteins (RNPs), molecules made partly of RNA and partly of protein.. In nature, RNPs are found only inside cells. They have specific shapes, sizes, and ...

Many experiments have indicated that the conditions of the early earth were ideal for the spontaneous formation of biological compounds and perhaps even the first life forms, but as you said that really has little or nothing to do with evolution itself. Evoution is very well-supported by evidence and there are no serious scientific theories that contradict it, so the answer to your question is that its pretty solid ...