The Emergence of Bioenergetics: The Formation of a Gluconeogenesis System and Reductive Pentose Phosphate Pathway of CO2 Fixation in Ancient Hydrothermal Systems
Abstract:The origin of phosphorus metabolism is one of the central problems in the context of the emergence of life on Earth. It has been shown that the C-H-O system can be transformed into a four-component C-H-O-P system with the formation of a gluconeogenesis path in a possible Archean hydrothermal condition under the influence of a phosphorus chemical potential. This system became the energy supply basis for protometabolism, and facilitated the formation of a new CO 2 fixation cycle (the reductive pentose phosphate … Show more
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