Abstract
In a prebiotic world, the first form of cells, the protocells, were able to incorporate functional molecules such as polymers with self-replicative properties thanks to primitive forms of membranes. Lipid boundaries represent the chemico-physical barrier between the inner and the outer part of a modern cellular environment. However, one could expect that other types of boundaries were present in primitive compartments. In this chapter we present a prebiotic chemistry perspective that includes the synthesis of amphiphiles under prebiotic conditions, their role in protocells boundary formation and how synthetic protocells were assembled to simulate plausible.
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Carolina Chieffo and Augustin Lopez contributed equally.
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Lopez, A., Chieffo, C., Fiore, M. (2021). Abiotic Synthesis and Role of Amphiphiles in the Encapsulation Process in Life’s Origin. In: Neubeck, A., McMahon, S. (eds) Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life. Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81039-9_6
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