Polyesters as a model system for building primitive biologies from non-biological prebiotic chemistry

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60461373%3A22340%2F20%3A43920559" target="_blank" >RIV/60461373:22340/20:43920559 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/10/1/6" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/10/1/6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life10010006" target="_blank" >10.3390/life10010006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Polyesters as a model system for building primitive biologies from non-biological prebiotic chemistry

Original language description

A variety of organic chemicals were likely available on prebiotic Earth. These derived from diverse processes including atmospheric and geochemical synthesis and extraterrestrial input, and were delivered to environments including oceans, lakes, and subaerial hot springs. Prebiotic chemistry generates both molecules used by modern organisms, such as proteinaceous amino acids, as well as many molecule types not used in biochemistry. As prebiotic chemical diversity was likely high, and the core of biochemistry uses a rather small set of common building blocks, the majority of prebiotically available organic compounds may not have been those used in modern biochemistry. Chemical evolution was unlikely to have been able to discriminate which molecules would eventually be used in biology, and instead, interactions among compounds were governed simply by abundance and chemical reactivity. Previous work has shown that likely prebiotically available α-hydroxy acids can combinatorially polymerize into polyesters that self-assemble to create new phases which are able to compartmentalize other molecule types. The unexpectedly rich complexity of hydroxy acid chemistry and the likely enormous structural diversity of prebiotic organic chemistry suggests chemical evolution could have been heavily influenced by molecules not used in contemporary biochemistry, and that there is a considerable amount of prebiotic chemistry which remains unexplored. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Life

ISSN

2075-1729

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

"6-1"-"6-16"

UT code for WoS article

000534045200005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85078747205