Two-dimensional life?

C de Duve, S L Miller

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C de Duve: The Rockefeller University, New York 10021, USA.

PMID: 11538487 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.22.10014

A model [Wächtershäuser, G. (1988) Microbiol. Rev. 52, 452-484], according to which life started in the form of a monomolecular layer of interacting anionic metabolites electrostatically bound to a positively charged surface, is examined critically. The model raises a number of thermodynamic and kinetic difficulties.

NASA Discipline Exobiology NASA Discipline Number 52-20 NASA Program Exobiology Non-NASA Center

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Animals

Anions

Biological Evolution

Iron

Kinetics

Minerals

Models, Biological

Models, Chemical

Nucleic Acid Precursors

Nucleic Acids

Origin of Life

Polymers

Sulfides

Surface Properties

Thermodynamics

Anions

Minerals

Nucleic Acid Precursors

Nucleic Acids

Polymers

Sulfides

pyrite

Iron

Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

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