How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of life

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 271-280

  Lane, Nick ^a   Allen, John F ^b   Martin, William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkaline hydrothermal vents; ATPase; Chemiosmosis; LUCA; Proton gradients

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; ION; OXYGEN;

BIOGENESIS; CHEMIOSMOSIS; CHEMOTROPH; DONOR; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FERMENTATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PH; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BIOGENESIS; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSMOSIS;

EID: 77950456083     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900131     Document Type: Review

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