Chemical Evolution: Structure and Model of the First Cell

Conference on the Structure and Model of the First Cell (ICTP) held in Trieste, Italy, 29 August–2 September 1994

AvCyril Ponnamperuma,Julian Chela-Flores

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

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Beskrivning

A review and evaluation of the rapid evolution of theoretical and empirical knowledge in the interdisciplinary study of the origins of life. With 35 contributions authored by 95 scientists, the text discusses many aspects of the origin of the first cell: exobiology in the solar system and beyond; the early paleontological record; physical, chemical, biological and informational aspects of the origin; and structure of the membrane and the cell itself.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-07-31
Mått:170 x 244 x 27 mm
Vikt:770 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:383
Upplaga:1995
Förlag:Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN:9780792335627

Utforska kategorier

Biokemi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Innehållsförteckning

The origin of the cell from Oparin to the present day.- Alfonso L. Herrera: A Mexican pioneer in the study of chemical evolution.- Experimental retracement of the origins of a protocell: It was also a protoneuron.- Exobiology on Titan: A reference laboratory for studying prebiotic chemistry on a planetary scale.- Search for Bioorganic Compounds and Organisms on Mars.- Interstellar dust, chirality, comets and the origins of life: Life from dead stars?.- Some aspects of laboratory cometary models.- SETH: The search for extra-terrestrial homochirality.- Age of the oldest rocks with biogenic components: An estimate for the age of the origin of life.- Significance of biogeochemical markers in Precambrian sediments.- Coherent dynamics in water as a possible explanation of biological membranes formation.- Physics underlying the formation of protocells.- A possible route for the formation of protoprotein and its microspheres from primitive gases under possible prebiotic conditions.- Domain protolife: Protocells and metaprotocells within thermal protein matrices.- Chemical synthesis of lipids and the origin of life.- Adsorption interaction on the interface of phase-separated systems. Modeling studies.- Lipid vesicles: Are they plausible primordial aggregates?.- Cell wall biochemistry in Archaea and its phylogenetic implications.- Contribution from coenzyme related molecules to evolution of photoreceptors.- On the origin of biological information.- Linguistics of biomolecules and the protein-first hypothesis for the origins of cells.- Evolution of the cellular communication system: An analysis in the computational paradigm.- Thermodynamics and biological evolution: A motive force of evolution.- On stable spherical configurations of artificial protocells.- Molecular chirality andthe origin of life.- False chirality, CP violation and the breakdown of microscopic reversibility in chiral molecular and elementary particle processes.- Possibilities to measure the parity-violating energy difference.- Low temperature specifie heat anomaly of D-valine.- Inorganic polyphosphate functions at various stages of cell evolution.- Hardware and software in biology: Simultaneous origin of proteins and nucleic acids via hydrogen cyanide polymers.- Phosphoryl amino acids: Common origin for nucleic acids and protein.- A search for symmetries in the genetic code.- Evolutionary roots of genetic code.- A new hypothesis for the origin of life.- Some physical problems in biology: Aspects of the origin and structure of the first cell.- Repetitive elements of protein sequences as fossils of early life.- The first eukaryotic cell-acid hot-spring algae.- Thoughts on the origin and nature of life and intelligence on earth.- The beginning of the first cell.- List of participants.