Prebiotic amino acids bind to and stabilize prebiotic fatty acid membranes

Cornell, CE; Black, RA; Xue, MJ; Litz, HE; Ramsay, A; Gordon, M; Mileant, A; Cohen, ZR; Williams, JA; Lee, KK; Drobny, GP; Keller, SL

Black, RA; Keller, SL (reprint author), Univ Washington, Dept Chem, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.; Black, RA (reprint author), Univ Washington, Dept Bioengn, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2019; 116 (35): 17239

Abstract

The membranes of the first protocells on the early Earth were likely self-assembled from fatty acids. A major challenge in understanding how protocell......

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