Rewarming the Primordial Soup: Revisitations and Rediscoveries in Prebiotic Chemistry

Raffaele Saladino; Judit E Šponer; Jiří Šponer; Ernesto Di Mauro

doi:10.1002/cbic.201700534

Rewarming the Primordial Soup: Revisitations and Rediscoveries in Prebiotic Chemistry

Chembiochem. 2018 Jan 4;19(1):22-25. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201700534. Epub 2017 Nov 22.

Authors

Raffaele Saladino¹, Judit E Šponer², Jiří Šponer², Ernesto Di Mauro¹

Affiliations

¹ Dipartimento di Scienze Ecologiche e Biologiche, Università della Tuscia, Via San Camillo De Lellis, 01100, Viterbo, Italy.
² Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 61265, Brno, Czech Republic.

Abstract

A short history of Campbell's primordial soup: In this essay we try to disclose some of the historical connections between the studies that have contributed to our current understanding of the emergence of catalytic RNA molecules and their components from an inanimate matter.

Keywords: RNA; nucleosides; nucleotides; oligonucleotides; prebiotic chemistry.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Nucleosides / chemistry
Nucleotides / chemistry
Prebiotics*
RNA / metabolism
RNA, Catalytic / metabolism
Ribosomes / metabolism

Substances

Nucleosides
Nucleotides
Prebiotics
RNA, Catalytic
RNA