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Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life.

William Martin¹, John Baross, Deborah Kelley, Michael J Russell.

Abstract

Submarine hydrothermal vents are geochemically reactive habitats that harbour rich microbial communities. There are striking parallels between the chemistry of the H(2)-CO(2) redox couple that is present in hydrothermal systems and the core energy metabolic reactions of some modern prokaryotic autotrophs. The biochemistry of these autotrophs might, in turn, harbour clues about the kinds of reactions that initiated the chemistry of life. Hydrothermal vents thus unite microbiology and geology to breathe new life into research into one of biology's most important questions - what is the origin of life?

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Year: 2008 PMID： 18820700 DOI： 10.1038/nrmicro1991

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Rev Microbiol ISSN： 1740-1526 Impact factor: 60.633

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