Origin of life : chemical approach / Piet Herdewijn, M. Volkan Kisakürek (eds.).

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Published: Zürich : Weinheim : Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta ; Wiley-VCH, c2008.
Other Authors:
Herdewijn, Piet
Kisakürek, M. Volkan
Subjects:
Life > Origin.
Biochemistry.
Cosmochemistry.
Format: Book
Origin of life : chemical approach /
Table of Contents:
  • What Is Life? A Brief Historical Overview / A. Lazcano
  • Reactions of the HCN-Tetramer with Aldehydes / K. Koch, W. B. Schweizer and A. Eschenmoser
  • On a Hypothetical Generational Relationship between HCN and Constituents of the Reductive Citric Acid Cycle / A. Eschenmoser
  • Chemistry and Selection / C. de Duve
  • On the Chemistry and Evolution of the Pioneer Organism / G. Wachtershauser
  • Physico-Chemical and Evolutionary Constraints for the Formation and Selection of First Biopolymers: Towards the Consensus Paradigm of the Abiogenic Origin of Life / A. Y. Mulkidjanian and M. Y. Galperin
  • Chemical Aspects of Synthetic Biology / P. L. Luisi
  • Errors and Alternatives in Prebiotic Replication and Catalysis / J. Ninio
  • Evolution of Optimal Accuracy and Stability in Biological Systems / R. Holliday
  • Ribozyme Catalysis of Metabolism in the RNA World / X. Chen, N. Li and A. D. Ellington
  • RNAs in Extreme Environments / C. Torchet and M.-C. Maurel
  • Intractable Mixtures and the Origin of Life / A. W. Schwartz
  • The First Steps of Chemical Evolution towards the Origin of Life / B. M. Rode, D. Fitz and T. Jakschitz
  • From Interstellar Amino Acids to Prebiotic Catalytic Peptides: A Review / A. Brack
  • The Chemistry That Preceded Life's Origin: A Study Guide from Meteorites / S. Pizzarello
  • Formamide Chemistry and the Origin of Informational Polymers / R. Saladino, C. Crestini, E. Ciciriello, G. Costanzo and E. Di Mauro
  • RNA: Prebiotic Product, or Biotic Invention? / C. Anastasi, F. F. Bucket, M. A. Crowe, A. L. Parkes, M. W. Powner, J. M. Smith and J. D. Sutherland
  • Peptide Nucleic Acids and the Origin of Life / P. E. Nielsen
  • Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acids: Aminopropyl Nucleic Acids (APNAs) / D. Zhou, M. Froeyen, J. Rozenski, A. Van Aerschot and P. Herdewijn
  • Nonenzymatic Recombination of RNA: Possible Mechanism for the Formation of Novel Sequences / A. V. Lutay, M. A. Zenkova and V. V. Vlassov
  • Differences in Substrate Specificity of C(5) -Substituted or C(5)-Unsubstituted Pyrimidine Nucleotides by DNA Polymerases from Thermophilic Bacteria, Archaea, and Phages / H. Sawai, J. Nagashima, M. Kuwahara, R. Kitagata, T. Tamura and I. Matsui
  • Addressing the Problems of Base Pairing and Strand Cyclization in Template-Directed Synthesis: A Case for the Utility and Necessity of 'Molecular Midwives' and Reversible Backbone Linkages for the Origin of proto-RNA / N. V. Hud, S. S. Jain, X. Li and D. G. Lynn
  • Enzymatic Catalyzed DNA Synthesis using L-Asp-dGMP, L-Asp-dCMP, and L-Asp-dTMP / M. Terrazas, P. Marliere and P. Herdewijn
  • Chemical Primer Extension: Individual Steps of Spontaneous Replication / J. A. Rojas Stutz, E. Kervio, C. Deck and C. Richert
  • Conformational and Chiral Selection of Oligonucleotides / M. Froeyen, F. Morvan, J.-J. Vasseur, P. Nielsen, A. Van Aerschot, H. Rosemeyer and P. Herdewijn.

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