On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells.

By William F. Martin, Michael Russell. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2003

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology, Molecular Biology

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The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution (2011, background): “The other major area of nonhomology between archaea and bacteria, lipid biosynthesis (along with lipid chemistry), prompted the even more radical hypothesis of a noncellular although compartmentalized LUCA (Martin and Russell, 2003; Koonin and Martin, 2005).”
A thermodynamic assessment of energy requirements for biomass synthesis by chemolithoautotrophic micro‐organisms in oxic and anoxic environments (2005, background): “…may represent analogues of the earliest biological communities to inhabit the Earth or of microbial communities that might exist on other planetary bodies such as Mars and Europa (e.g. Boston et al ., 1992; Jakosky & Shock, 1998; Fisk & Giovannoni, 1999; McCollom, 1999; Martin & Russell, 2003).”
The onset and early evolution of life (2006, background): “Evolution in the mound extended beyond mere optimization of the acetate and methane reactions (Martin and Russell, 2003).”
Origin and evolution of the genetic code: the universal enigma (2008, background): “This idea of collective evolution of ensembles of virus-like genetic entities as a stage in the origin of cellular life apparently goes back to Haldane’s classic paper of 1928 (121) but was subsequently recast in modern terms and expanded (122–125), and developed in physical terms (126, 127).”
On the origin of biochemistry at an alkaline hydrothermal vent (2007, background): “The universal ancestor of life so inferred would not have been a free-living cell, but confined instead to the naturally chemiosmotic, FeS compartments within which it arose (Martin & Russell 2003; Koonin & Martin 2005).”
The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells (2006, background): “Following this principle, a specific model has been elaborated under which early evolution, from abiogenic syntheses of complex organic molecules to the emergence of archaeal and bacterial cells, unraveled within networks of inorganic compartments that are found at hydrothermal vents and consists, p”
Hydrogenosomes and Mitosomes: Conservation and Evolution of Functions (2009, background): “Because of the simple nature of FeS clusters and their widespread distribution in many essential cellular processes, they have been assigned essential roles in the evolution of life (Hall, Cammack, and Rao 1971; Martin and Russell 2003; Russell and Hall 1997).”
THE ROLE AND EVOLUTION OF SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASES IN ALGAE 1 (2005, background): “Because the quinones, which are integral prosthetic components of PSII, absorb UV-B light (Greenberg et al. 1989, Melis et al. 1992, Jansen et al. 1993), it has been hypothesized that damage occurs beyond the photosynthetic reaction molecule, probably at the primary (QA) and secondary (QB) quinone e”
How life began on Earth: a status report (2004, background): “In an attempt to incorporate informational molecules into the metabolist scheme, it has recently been suggested that an elaborate cascade of metabolic reactions entrained within sulfide minerals around hydrothermal vents developed all the way to RNA molecules and even primitive cells [12].”