The aim of this communication is to present and discuss the results of past, recent, and further ongoing (molecular and catalytic) studies supporting the multiple root genesis hypothesis (MuRoGe) already proposed in order to approach the questions surrounding the origin of life. The MuGeRo core hypothesis proposes that a non-enzymatic, photochemical or selfsustaining reaction might be a primitive form of reaction network, supporting abiogenic development of life on Earth or elsewhere in the Universe and probably responsible for the emergence of a large prebiotic pool of molecules. These reactions appear sufficient to provide the variety and abundance of biologically favorable molecules from which Darwinian selection operating at molecular level may have seeded proto-metabolic reaction in pre-biotic contexts. This concept has to be considered in addition to the hypothesis that microbial or early forms of life were already present in our solar system at the time of Earth’s formation.
Triggering the emergence of life on Earth: a possible role of self-assembly M4 material for the origin of living-matter / DEL GAUDIO, Rosanna. - (2016). ( 3rd Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Last Universal Common Ancestor Conference Milton Keynes, UK 4 november 2016).
Triggering the emergence of life on Earth: a possible role of self-assembly M4 material for the origin of living-matter.
DEL GAUDIO, ROSANNA
2016
Abstract
The aim of this communication is to present and discuss the results of past, recent, and further ongoing (molecular and catalytic) studies supporting the multiple root genesis hypothesis (MuRoGe) already proposed in order to approach the questions surrounding the origin of life. The MuGeRo core hypothesis proposes that a non-enzymatic, photochemical or selfsustaining reaction might be a primitive form of reaction network, supporting abiogenic development of life on Earth or elsewhere in the Universe and probably responsible for the emergence of a large prebiotic pool of molecules. These reactions appear sufficient to provide the variety and abundance of biologically favorable molecules from which Darwinian selection operating at molecular level may have seeded proto-metabolic reaction in pre-biotic contexts. This concept has to be considered in addition to the hypothesis that microbial or early forms of life were already present in our solar system at the time of Earth’s formation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
