Energy at Origins: Favorable Thermodynamics of Biosynthetic Reactions in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)
Work
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Though all theories for the origin of life require a source of energy to promote primordial chemical reactions, the nature of energy that drove the emergence of metabolism at origins is still debated.... more
Source: Frontiers in Microbiology
Authors Jessica L. E. Wimmer, Joana C. Xavier, Andrey do Nascimento Vieira, Delfina P. Henriques Pereira, Jacqueline Leidner +4 more
Cites: 116
Cited by: 48
Related to: 10
FWCI: 4.296
Citation percentile (by year/subfield): 77.59
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Volkswagen Foundation, European Research Council, European Research Council
Grant IDS Ma 1426/21-1, 96 742, 666053, 101018894