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The Lipid World
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The continuity of abiotically formed bilayer membranes with similar structures in contemporary cellular life, and the requirement for microenvironments in which large and small molecules could be compartmentalized, support the idea that amphiphilic boundary structures contributed to the emergence of life. As an extension of this notion, we propose here a 'Lipid World' scenario as an early evolutionary step in the emergence of cellular life on Earth. This concept combines the potential chemical activities of lipids and other amphiphiles, with their capacity to undergo spontaneous self-organization into supramolecular structures such as micelles and bilayers. In particular, the documented chemical rate enhancements within lipid assemblies suggest that energy-dependent synthetic reactions could lead to the growth and increased abundance of certain amphiphilic assemblies. We further propose that selective processes might act on such assemblies, as suggested by our computer simulations of mutual catalysis among amphiphiles. As demonstrated also by other researchers, such mutual catalysis within random molecular assemblies could have led to a primordial homeostatic system displaying rudimentary life-like properties. Taken together, these concepts provide a theoretical framework, and suggest experimental tests for a Lipid World model for the origin of life.
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“Not less important, when published mutually catalytic values of lipids from Fendler [82] were analysed, a similar distribution was observed [55].”
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“In a related vein, heterogeneous micelles bear similarity to globular proteins, being of similar size, having hydrophobic interior and hydrophilic functional surface [55] with catalytic capacities (see next section).”
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“Lipids are widely thought of as chemically inert non-catalytic compounds whose role is to form membranes. An important aspect of this misconception is the ‘like it is today’ outlook, which infers amphiphile chemical properties based on the molecule types found in present-day cells.”
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“Macromolecules lining the walls would have moderated the movement of molecules into and out of the microchambers [64,164]), serving as proto-membranes (Figure 4, step 2c).”
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“The principal capability of membrane vesicles for the early steps of life has been described on numerous occasions [27,28,29]. Recently, it was shown that a possible prebiotic amphiphile (decanoic acid) undergoes distinct binding interactions with nucleobases and proteins [30,31]. So, at this stage, they may serve as containments for initial metabolic steps and, most prominently, as an ensemble of”
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- Authors
- Segré, D., Ben-Eli, D., Deamer, D. W., & Lancet, D.
- Affiliations
- Crown Human Genome Center (IL)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lancet, Doron
- Venue
- Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere
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- 2001-02
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- 31
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- 1-2
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- 119-145
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- 0169-6149 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0875
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Keywords
- origin of life, amphiphilic molecules, lipid bilayers, micelles, self-organization, prebiotic chemistry, compartmentalization, homeostasis
- MeSH terms
- Origin of Life, Catalysis, Cells, Computer Simulation, Lipase, Lipids, Membranes, Evolution, Chemical
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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