The possible role of Cu(II) for the origin of life

✍ Scribed by Bernd Michael Rode; Yuttana Suwannachot

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 243 KB
• Volume: 190-192
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-8545
• DOI: 10.1016/s0010-8545(99)00159-9

✦ Synopsis

The most crucial prerequisite for the origin of life -most probably long before RNA/ DNA-based reproduction could develop-was the formation of peptides and proteins under the conditions of the primitive earth. All reactions formerly proposed to have enabled this step of chemical evolution are highly questionable concerning their realizability under prebiotic conditions. However, the salt-induced peptide formation (SIPF) reaction, found some years ago, provides much more encouraging aspects for the creation of various peptides under such conditions. The necessary reagents -besides amino acids -are only sodium www.elsevier.com/locate/ccr