Autcatalytic networks Eörs Szathmáry Collegium Budapest AND Eötvös University
Units of evolution multiplication heredity variation hereditary traits affecting survival and/or reproduction
Towards Systems Chemistry Analysis of synthesis of coupled autocatalytic chemical systems Origin of life and chemical technology
The formose ‘reaction’ formaldehyde autocatalysis glycolaldehyde Butlerow, 1861
The reductive citric acid cycle
PEP carboxylase
The catalytic mechanism
Chemical evolution was a race between tar formation and life formation Chemical networks Tar Life What fraction of planets would end up with just tar?
Benner’s hypothetical ribo-organism (1999) Membrane? Cofactors?
Another case: von Kiedrowski’s replicators
Von Kiedrowski’s replicator
Peptide replicator networks
The Soi reaction
Toward ribozyme self-replication
Towards a general polymerase
Anabolic autocatalysis I
Anabolic autocatalysis II
Towards replicable nanostructures
Gánti’s chemoton model (1974) metabolism template copying membrane growth ALL THREE SUBSYSTEMS ARE AUTOCATALYTIC
Pathways of supersystem evolution metabolism M B boundary M T M B T template B T INFRABIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Szostak’s vesicles