Self-Production of Supramolecular Structures From Synthetic Structures to Models of Minimal Living Systems

Self-Production of Supramolecular Structures From Synthetic Structures to Models of Minimal Living Systems / edited by Gail R. Fleischaker, S. Colonna, Pier Luigi Luisi.

How did life begin on the Earth? The units of life are cells, which can be defined as bounded systems of molecules that capture energy and nutrients from the environment -- systems that expand, reproduce, and evolve over time, often into more complex systems. This book is the proceedings of a unique...

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Other Authors: Fleischaker, Gail R. (Editor), Colonna, S. (Editor), Luisi, Pier Luigi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1994.
Edition:1st ed. 1994.
Series:Nato Science Series C:, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 446
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Nuclear chemistry.
Polymers  .
Bioorganic chemistry.
Organic chemistry.
Biochemistry.
Inorganic chemistry.
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Table of Contents:
  • Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
  • Historical overview to the quest of self-reproduction and artificial life
  • On defining life
  • A few precautionary words concerning terminology
  • Template Chemistry
  • Molecular replication: From minimal to complex systems
  • Self-replication and reproduction: From molecules to protocells
  • Extrabiotic replication and self-assembly
  • The prebiotic synthesis and replication of RNA oligomers: The transition from prebiotic molecules to the RNA world
  • Template-directed synthesis of oligomers: Kinetic vs. thermodynamic control
  • Chirality and Replication
  • Chirality and the first self-replicating molecules
  • Are peptides possible support for self-amplification of sequence information?
  • The RNA World
  • Minimonsters: Evolutionary by-products of in vitro RNA amplification
  • Models for the autocatalytic replication of RNA
  • RNA species that multiply indefinitely with RNA polymerase
  • Chemical oscillations and non-linear chemical kinetics
  • The Cell View and Cell Models
  • The chemical implementation of autopoiesis
  • Molecular recognition in micelles
  • Self-reproducing vesicles
  • Sources and syntheses of prebiotic amphiphiles
  • Ancient paralogous duplications and the search for Archean cells
  • Posters
  • Self-replication of oligonucleotides in reverse micelles
  • Liposomes from lipidonucleotides and from lipidopeptides
  • Dendritic luminescent and redox-active supermolecules made of transition metal complexes
  • Layer-by-layer adsorption: The solid/liquid-interface as a template for the controlled growth of well-defined nanostructures of polyelectrolytes, proteins, DNA and polynucleotides
  • Molecular recognition of amino acids by RNA
  • Towards nature’s structural guidelines: Conclusions on the unsolved structures of RNA-dependent RNA polymerases
  • A self-catalyzed (autopoietic) synthesis of an anionic surfactant: Experimental evidence and theoretical modeling
  • Competition, reciprocity, and mutation at the molecular level: Irradiation of a synthetic replicator generates a superior species
  • Giant vesicles.

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