Living nanovesicles - Chemical and physical survival strategies of primordial biosystems

Andrei P. Sommer; David S. McKay; Neva Ciftcioglu; Uri Oron; Adam R. Mester; E. Olavi Kajander

doi:10.1021/pr034005h

Living nanovesicles - Chemical and physical survival strategies of primordial biosystems

Andrei P. Sommer^*, David S. McKay, Neva Ciftcioglu, Uri Oron, Adam R. Mester, E. Olavi Kajander

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School of Zoology

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Abstract

Life on Earth and Mars could have started with self-assembled nanovesicles similar to the present nanobacteria (NB). To resist extreme environmental stress situations and periods of nutritional deprivation, nanovesicles would have had a chemical composition protected by a closed mineralized compartment, facilitating their development in a primordial soup, or other early wet environment. Their survivability would have been enhanced if they had mechanisms for metabolic communication, and an ability to collect primordially available energy forms. Here, we establish an irreducible model system for life formation starting with NB.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	441-443
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Proteome Research
Volume	2
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/pr034005h
State	Published - Jul 2003

Keywords

Extremophiles
Nannobacteria
Nanobacteria
Nanovesicles
Origin of life models

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