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Abstract
A model is proposed for the selective accumulation of amino acids, sugars, nucleotides, cations and protons from the primordial oceans into a lipid vesicle type of protocell. The model is built on facilitated diffusion using simple, primordial, lipid-soluble carriers. The advantages a lipid vesicle protocell would have had over the other potential types of protocells are discussed.Entities:
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Year: 1980 PMID: 7413188 DOI: 10.1007/bf00928406
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Orig Life ISSN: 0302-1688