Viability conditions for a compartmentalized protometabolic system: A semi-empirical approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Piedrafita, Gabriel ^a   Ruiz Mirazo, Kepa ^b,c   Monnard, Pierre Alain ^d   Cornish Bowden, Athel ^e   Montero, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c CSIC UPV Unidad de Biofisica UBF   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL OLEATE; LAURIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; PREBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; ENZYME KINETICS; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; LIPID VESICLE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; METABOLISM; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTOMETABOLISM; SECRETORY VESICLE; STEADY STATE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 84862989037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039480     Document Type: Article

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