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NATURE CHEMISTRY
卷 12, 期 11, 页码 1016-+出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-020-00560-7
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- NSF [CHE-1504217]
- NASA Astrobiology Program under the Center for Chemical Evolution [CHE-1504217]
- NASA Exobiology grant [80NSSC18K1300]
- Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Efforts to decipher the prebiotic roots of metabolic pathways have focused on recapitulating modern biological transformations, with metals typically serving in place of cofactors and enzymes. Here we show that the reaction of glyoxylate with pyruvate under mild aqueous conditions produces a series of alpha-ketoacid analogues of the reductive citric acid cycle without the need for metals or enzyme catalysts. The transformations proceed in the same sequence as the reverse Krebs cycle, resembling a protometabolic pathway, with glyoxylate acting as both the carbon source and reducing agent. Furthermore, the alpha-ketoacid analogues provide a natural route for the synthesis of amino acids by transamination with glycine, paralleling the extant metabolic mechanisms and obviating the need for metal-catalysed abiotic reductive aminations. This emerging sequence of prebiotic reactions could have set the stage for the advent of increasingly sophisticated pathways operating under catalytic control.
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