Origins of Life: The Primal Self-Organization - Egel, Richard; Lankenau, Dirk-Henner.; Mulkidjanian, Armen Y.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
Energy as the Common Denominator: Energetics of the First Life -- A Hypothesis for a Unified Mechanism of Formation and Enantioenrichment of Polyols and Aldaric, Aldonic, Amino, Hydroxy and Sugar Acids in Carbonaceous Chondrites -- On the Origin of Phosphorylated Biomolecules -- Abiotic Photosynthesis: From Prebiotic Chemistry to Metabolism -- Salt-Induced Peptide Formation in Chemical Evolution: Building Blocks before RNA - Potential of Peptide Splicing Reactions -- Scenario of the Primary Pump: Emergence and Operation of an Automatic Engine to Generate Primordial Peptides and Beyond Nucleic Acids -- The Relevance of Peptides that Bind FeS Clusters, Phosphate Groups, Cations or Anions for Prebiotic Evolution -- Peptide-Dominated Vesicles: Bacterial Internal Membrane Compartments as Model Systems for Prebiotic Evolution -- Nicotinamide Coenzyme Synthesis: a Case of Ribonucleotide Emergence or a Byproduct of the RNA World?- On Alternative Biological Scenarios for the Evolutionary Transitions to DNA and Biological Protein Synthesis -- Two RNA Worlds: Toward the Origin of Replication, Genes, Recombination and Repair -- Integrative Perspectives: In Quest of a Coherent Framework for Origins of Life on Earth.
Keywords: Evolutionary biology; Biochemistry; Paleontology .; Nucleic acids; Proteins .; Cell biology; Evolutionary Biology; Biochemistry, general; Paleontology; Nucleic Acid Chemistry; Protein Science; Cell Biology