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Spatial Models of Prebiotic Evolution: Soup Before Pizza?

Scheuring, István, Czárán, Tamás, Szabó, Péter, Károlyi, György, Toroczkai, Zoltán·2003·Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere
DOI 10.1023/a:1025742505324
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The problem of information integration and resistance to the invasion of parasitic mutants in prebiotic replicator systems is a notorious issue of research on the origin of life. Almost all theoretical studies published so far have demonstrated that some kind of spatial structure is indispensable for the persistence and/or the parasite resistance of any feasible replicator system. Based on a detailed critical survey of spatial models on prebiotic information integration, we suggest a possible scenario for replicator system evolution leading to the emergence of the first protocells capable of independent life. We show that even the spatial versions of the hypercycle model are vulnerable to selfish parasites in heterogeneous habitats. Contrary, the metabolic system remains persistent and coexistent with its parasites both on heterogeneous surfaces and in chaotically mixing flowing media. Persistent metabolic parasites can be converted to metabolic cooperators, or they can gradually obtain replicase activity. Our simulations show that, once replicase activity emerged, a gradual and simultaneous evolutionary improvement of replicase functionality (speed and fidelity) and template efficiency is possible only on a surface that constrains the mobility of macromolecule replicators. Based on the results of the models reviewed, we suggest that open chaotic flows ('soup') and surface dynamics ('pizza') both played key roles in the sequence of evolutionary events ultimately concluding in the appearance of the first living cell on Earth.

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  • The dynamics are formally equivalent to those of parabolic replication, although the subexponential term in the replication dynamics follows from imperfect mixing along the fractal set and not from the self-inhibition of replicators.

    “That is, the dynamics are formally equivalent to those of parabolic replication, although the subexponential term in the replication dynamics follows from imperfect mixing along the fractal set and not from the self-inhibition of replicators [89].”

    From Ecology and Evolution in the RNA World Dynamics and Stability of Prebiotic Replicator Systems (2017) · cites this paper as [89]

  • There is no selection in the open chaotic flow habitat, similar to parabolic replication.

    “Similar to parabolic replication, there is no selection in this habitat, so we have to assume other regions providing intense turbulent mixing where exponential dynamics still maintain selection [89].”

    From Ecology and Evolution in the RNA World Dynamics and Stability of Prebiotic Replicator Systems (2017) · cites this paper as [89]

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Authors
Scheuring, I., Czárán, T., Szabó, P., Károlyi, G., & Toroczkai, Z.
Affiliations
  • Eötvös Loránd University (HU)
  • International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (AT)
  • University of Arizona (US)
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
Corresponding author
Czárán, Tamás
ORCID
Venue
Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2003-10
Volume
33
Issue
4-5
Pages
319-355
ISSN
  • 0169-6149 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-0875
DOI
10.1023/a:1025742505324
OpenAlex
W1503940664
Cited by
53
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11
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FWCI
2.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres (publishedVersion)
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  • IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Hungarian Science Foundation
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Keywords
prebiotic evolution, origin of life, spatial structure, hypercycles, information integration, protocells, metabolic cooperation, replicase, chaotic flow, surface dynamics
MeSH terms
Origin of Life, Animals, Biological Evolution, Metabolism, Models, Theoretical, Fractals

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