Origins of Life: The Primal Self-Organization /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Egel, Richard. (Editor), Lankenau, Dirk-Henner. (Editor), Mulkidjanian, Armen Y. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.