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A chemical model of prebiological photophosphorylation with participation of hemoproteinoid microspheres, mixed microspheres containing bonded riboflavin and microspheres obtained from glycine rich proteinoids was studied. The illumination of aqueous solutions containing microspheres, K2HPO4, ADP and electron acceptor leads to an increase of ATP concentration and to a decrease of concentration of inorganic phosphate. Initial photochemical reactions with participations of proteinoid microspheres could have evolved in the course of chemical evolution and led to the emergence of the photophosphorylation in its modern biochemical form.
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Kolesnikov, M.P. Proteinoid microspheres and the process of prebiological photophosphorylation. Origins Life Evol Biosphere 21, 31–37 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01809511
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