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Intermediate stages in the origin of metabolism at a phosphorylating hydrothermal vent
Natalia Mrnjavac, Nadja K. Hoffmann, Manon L. Schlikker +14
The origin of life required the emergence of metabolism, an autocatalytic network of enzymatic reactions that synthesize amino acids, nucleotides and cofactors. At the origin of me…
physics.bio-ph2025
GTP before ATP: The energy currency at the origin of genes
Natalia Mrnjavac, William F. Martin
Life is an exergonic chemical reaction. Many individual reactions in metabolism entail slightly endergonic steps that are coupled to free energy release, typically as ATP hydrolysi…