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Abstract
A model [Wächtershäuser, G. (1988) Microbiol. Rev. 52, 452-484], according to which life started in the form of a monomolecular layer of interacting anionic metabolites electrostatically bound to a positively charged surface, is examined critically. The model raises a number of thermodynamic and kinetic difficulties.Keywords: NASA Discipline Exobiology; NASA Discipline Number 52-20; NASA Program Exobiology; Non-NASA Center
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Year: 1991 PMID: 11538487 PMCID: PMC52857 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.22.10014
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205