期刊
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
卷 60, 期 12, 页码 6242-6269出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201914786
关键词
coenzymes; origin of life; prebiotic chemistry; protometabolism; RNA world theory
资金
- Projekt DEAL
Coenzymes play a pivotal role in the origin and evolution of life, potentially coexisting with RNA and significantly influencing early metabolic networks and the catalytic scope of RNA.
The evolution of coenzymes, or their impact on the origin of life, is fundamental for understanding our own existence. Having established reasonable hypotheses about the emergence of prebiotic chemical building blocks, which were probably created under palaeogeochemical conditions, and surmising that these smaller compounds must have become integrated to afford complex macromolecules such as RNA, the question of coenzyme origin and its relation to the evolution of functional biochemistry should gain new impetus. Many coenzymes have a simple chemical structure and are often nucleotide-derived, which suggests that they may have coexisted with the emergence of RNA and may have played a pivotal role in early metabolism. Based on current theories of prebiotic evolution, which attempt to explain the emergence of privileged organic building blocks, this Review discusses plausible hypotheses on the prebiotic formation of key elements within selected extant coenzymes. In combination with prebiotic RNA, coenzymes may have dramatically broadened early protometabolic networks and the catalytic scope of RNA during the evolution of life.
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