期刊
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY
卷 263, 期 3, 页码 317-327出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.12.020
关键词
Prelife; Replication; Template-directed synthesis; Evolutionary dynamics
资金
- John Templeton Foundation
- NSF/NIH [R01GM078986, P50GM068763]
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [37874]
- FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University
Template-directed polymerization of nucleotides is believed to be a pathway for the replication of genetic material in the earliest cells. We assume that activated monomers are produced by prebiotic chemistry. These monomers can undergo spontaneous polymerization, a system that we call prelife. Adding template-directed polymerization changes the equilibrium structure of prelife if the rate constants meet certain criteria. In particular, if the basic reproductive ratio of sequences of a certain length exceeds one, then those sequences can attain high abundance. Furthermore, if many sequences replicate, then the longest sequences can reach high abundance even if the basic reproductive ratios of all sequences are less than one. We call this phenomenon subcritical life. Subcritical life suggests that sequences long enough to be ribozymes can become abundant even if replication is relatively inefficient. Our work on the evolution of replication has interesting parallels to infection dynamics. Life (replication) can be seen as an infection of prelife. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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