The origins of life - The 'protein interaction world' hypothesis: Protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 678-688

  Andras, Peter ^a   Andras, Csaba ^b,c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^c SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; PROTEIN; RNA; URACIL;

BILAYER MEMBRANE; BIOGENESIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VACUOLE; ENCAPSULATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REDUCTION; REVIEW;

EID: 13444269292     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.11.029     Document Type: Article

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