Reconstructing the emergence of cellular life through the synthesis of model protocells

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2009, Pages 47-54

  Mansy, S S ^a   Szostak, J W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FATTY ACID; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; SUGAR; CARBOHYDRATE;

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND; GENOME; HETEROTROPHY; HUMAN; NUTRIENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCELL; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSTABILITY; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL COMPOSITION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

BIOGENESIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELLS; EVOLUTION; FATTY ACIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 77957733248     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2009.74.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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