Origin of Life

Voorkant
Y. Wolman
Springer Science & Business Media, 28 feb 1981 - 613 pagina's
This volume is a record of the 6th International Conference on the Origins of Life and the 3rd Meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Origins of Life. The conference was held under the auspices of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Jerusalem from June 22nd to June 27th 1980. A few weeks prior to the conference, Academician Aleksander Ivanovich Oparin passed away. Oparin, the father and founder of the study of the origins of life, proposed over 50 years ago that modern biological molecules had abidogical origins in the past, thus the beginning of life on Earth was preceded by a long period of abiogenic molecular evolution. Oparin was planning to report on his latest work in the opening session of the meeting - "Natural Selection: A Leading Factor in Transition from the Non-Living Matter to Life". This lecture will never be delivered. In Hebrew we say of those who have died "may their memory be bound with the bonds of eternal life". For Aleksander Ivanovich Oparin those words have particular significance, for surely his pioneering work will endure as long as the spirit of scientific enquiry prevails. This meeting was dedicated to the memory of Aleksander Ivanovich Oparin.
 

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INTERSTELLAR MOLECULES AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
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MOLECULES IN INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS
11
ON THE ORIGIN OF ORGANIC MOLECULES IN INTERSTELLAR SPACE AND SOME OF ITS CONSEQUENCES
19
COMETS AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
27
NATURE AND ORIGIN OF ORGANIC MOLECULES IN COMETS
33
LIQUID WATER ON A PLANET OVER COSMIC PERIODS
43
ORGANIC ANALYSIS OF THE ANTARCTIC CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES
51
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS IN CARBONACEOUS METEORITES A REASSESSMENT
59
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF MARIGRANULES AND KINETIC STUDIES ON THE FORMATION
309
MEMBRANE LIPIDS AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
313
RESOLUTION OF UNDERIVATIZED AMINO ACIDS BY HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY USING CHIRAL ELUANTS
323
STEREOSELECTIVE INTERACTIONS OF SMALL BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES
331
POSSIBLE SELECTIVE ADSORPTION OF ENANTIOMERS BY NAMONTMORRILLONITE
337
SPONTANEOUS AND INDUCED GENERATION OF OPTICAL ACTIVITY IN RACEMIC 44DIMETHYL11BINAPHTHYL
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AMPLIFICATION OF OPTICAL ACTIVITY BY CRYSTALLIZATION IN THE PRESENCE OF TAILORMADE ADDITIVES THE INVERSION R...
355
GENERATION AND AMPLIFICATION OF OPTICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS VIA INCLUSION IN CHIRAL TRIOTHYMOTIDE CLATHRAT...
365

ABIOTIC ORGANIC SYNTHESIS IN SPACE
65
FORMATION OF PREBIOTIC PRECURSORS FROM MODEL REDUCING ATMOSPHERES ROLE OF HYDROGEN ESCAPE
73
ORGANIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF REDUCING MODEL OF THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE PRIMITIVE EARTH ROLE OF UV LIGHT AN...
83
FAR UV PHOTOLYSIS OF METHANEWATER GASEOUS MIXTURES AND THE PREBIOTIC SYNTHESIS OF ALDEHYDES
93
PHOTOLYSIS OF CH₄NH₃ MIXTURES AND PH₃ AS MODELS FOR THE PHOTOCHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS ON THE PRIMITIVE ...
101
POSSIBLE ROLE OF PHOSPHINE IN CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
107
CLAYS AS PREBIOTIC PHOTOCATALYSTS
115
CLAYMEDIATED REACTIONS OF HCN OLIGOMERS THE EFFECT OF THE OXIDATION STATE OF THE CLAY
125
CHEMICAL EVOLUTION AND PLATE TECTONICS
129
THE STRECKER SYNTHESIS IN THE PRIMITIVE OCEAN
135
PHOTOASSISTED CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION AND FORMATION OF TWO AND THREECARBON COMPOUNDS
143
MELANOIDIN POLYMERS AS POSSIBLE OXYGEN SINKS IN THE PREBIOTIC OCEANS
151
FORMATION OF ENERGY RICH PHOSPHATE IN FENTONS REACTION
157
ABIOTIC SYNTHESIS OP PHOSPHORIC ESTERS OF MONOSACCHARIDES ACCORDING TO THE COLD MODEL
165
SYNTHESIS AND DEGRADATION OF AMINO ACIDS BY CONTACT GLOW DISCHARGE ELECTROLYSIS A POSSIBLE ROUTE FOR PREBI...
173
GENESIS OF AMINO ACIDS IN THE PRIMEVAL SEA FORMATION OF AMINO ACIDS FROM SUGARS AND AMMONIA IN A MODIFIED S...
181
PORPHYRINLIKE COMPOUNDS GENESIS UNDER SIMULATED ABIOTIC CONDITIONS
189
THE ROLE OF ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES IN THE FORMATION OF BIOCHEMICALS FROM EXPERIMENTS SIMULATING THE CHEMIC...
197
REDUCTION OF THIONUCLEOSIDES A PREBIOTIC PATHWAY TO DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDES
201
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE RATE OF NONENZYMATIC ACTIVATION OF CARBOXYLIC AND AMINO ACIDS BY ATP
209
HCN OLIGOMERIZATION ISOLATION AND PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEW PRECURSOR OF ADENINE
217
CYANAMIDE MEDIATED SYNTHESES OF LEU ALA AND PHE PEPTIDES UNDER PLAUSIBLE PRIMITIVE EARTH CONDITIONS
225
TEMPLATEDIRECTED SYNTHESIS OF OLIGOGUANYLIC ACIDS METAL ION CATALYSIS
233
CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF MODEL SYSTEMS OF PRIMEVAL EARTH PERIPHERY AND THERMAL POLYMERISATION OF AQUEOUS S...
241
THE POLYMERIZATION PRODUCTS OF 𝝰AMINOPROPIONITRILE THE COMPONENT SEPARATION USING CATIONEXCHANGE RESIN
247
THE COLD THEORY OP THE ORIGINS OF LIFE ASSUMPTIONS FOR THE THEORY AND EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE
255
THE APPEARANCE OF PROTOBIOPOLYMERS AND PROTOMEMBRANES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COLD THEORY OF THE ORIGINS...
263
TERRESTRIAL EVOLUTION OF POLYMERIZATION OF AMINO ACIDS HEAT TO ATP
271
POTENTIOMETRIC TITRATION BEHAVIOR OF POLYAMINO ACIDS PREPARED BY THERMAL POLYCONDENSATION
277
ON THE POLYCONDENSATION OF AMINO ACID ADENYLATES ON MONTMORILLONITES
285
POLYMERIZATION OF SERINE GUANYLATE IN THE PRESENCE OF MONTMORILLONITE
295
QUANTUM MECHANICAL CONFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS OF AMINOACYLADENYLATES IMPLICATION IN THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
301
ASYMMETRICAL RADICAL FORMATION IN 𝝱IRRADIATED D AND LALANINES
373
A NEW EXPERIMENT TO INVESTIGATE THE ORIGIN OF OPTICAL ACTIVITY USING A LOW ENERGY POSITRON BEAM OF CONTROL...
379
COMPETITION COEXISTENCE AND IRREVERSIBILITY IN MODELS OF EARLY MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
385
HISTIDYLHISTIDINE CATALYSIS OF GLYCINE CONDENSATION IN FLUCTUATING CLAY ENVIRONMENTS
393
A THEORY FOR THE ORIGIN OF A SELFREPRODUCING CHEMICAL SYSTEM BY NATURAL SELECTION FROM SHORT RANDOM OLIGO...
399
A MATHEMATICAL METHOD FOR THE ENUMERATION OF DOUBLET CODES
405
EVOLVING NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SURFACES
415
ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE GENETIC CODE
423
THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE GENETIC CODE
431
EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES OF THE GENETIC CODE
439
SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE FOR AN ANTICODONIC BASIS FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE GENETIC CODE
447
PRIMITIVE TRANSFER RNA AND ORIGIN OF DARWINIAN SYSTEM
457
EVOLUTION OF THE TERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERE AND ITS FOSSILS IN BIOSYSTEMS
465
ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE ISUA SUPRACRUSTALS
473
SECONDARY STRUCTURES OF POLYPEPTIDES AS EVOLUTIONARY GROWING POINTS
481
SEARCH FOR PRIMITIVE REPLICATIVE PROPERTIES ON EARLY POLYPEPTIDES
487
EMERGENCE OF FLAVIN CATALYSIS AN APPROACH BASED ON THE CONCEPT OF BIOORGANIC EVOLUTION
495
SELECTIVE ACYLABILITY OF AMINO ACIDS BY NONENZYMIC MODEL REACTIONS OF BIOCHEMICAL TRANSACYLATIONS
505
EXPERIMENTS ON TRANSFER OF ORGANIC MOLECULAR INFORMATION INTO CRYSTAL LATTICE SUPERSTRUCTURES
513
PHYLOGENETIC SEQUENCE OF METABOLIC PATHWAYS IN PRECAMBRIAN CELLULAR LIFE
521
COUPLING TO SOLAR ENERGY SENSITIZED PHOTOREACTIONS THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF SELFORGANIZATION
529
ULTRAVIOLET SELECTION PRESSURE IN THE PREPHANEROZOIC
537
DNAPROTEIN COMPLEX FROM AN EXTREME HALOPHILE A HISTONELIKE PROTEIN IN ARCHAEBACTERIA
543
THE EVOLUTION OF BLUEGREENS AND THE ORIGINS OF CHLOROPLASTS
551
EVOLUTION OF THE RHODOSPIRILLACEAE AND MITOCHONDRIA A VIEW BASED ON SEQUENCE DATA
559
ON THE ORIGIN OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC EUKARYOTIC CELLS CYANIDIUM CALDARIUM AS A BRIDGE ALGA BETWEEN PPOKARYOTI...
567
MICROBIAL LIFE IN COLD SALINE ENVIRONMENTS
575
MUTAGENS AND CARCINOGENS OCCURRENCE AND ROLE DURING CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
583
COULD THE BIOCHEMICAL METABOLISM BE DIFFERENT?
589
AUTHOR INDEX
601
SUBJECT INDEX
603
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