Systems chemistry: using thermodynamically controlled networks to assess molecular similarityJournal of Systems Chemistry - Tập 4 Số 1 - 2013
Vittorio Saggiomo, Yana R. Hristova, R. Frederick Ludlow, Sijbren Otto
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Background
The assessment of molecular similarity is a key step in the drug discovery process that has thus far relied almost exclusively on computational approaches. We now report an experimental method for similarity assessment based on dynamic combinatorial chemistry.
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Organoautocatalysis: Challenges for experiment and theoryJournal of Systems Chemistry - Tập 1 - Trang 1-7 - 2010
Svetlana B Tsogoeva
Recent reports about enantioselective organoautocatalytic systems, in which small organic molecules assist in their own formation and under conservation of their absolute configuration, are discussed. This process, appearing as a natural extension to non-covalent enantioselective organocatalysis, seems analogous to template-directed self-replication, previously observed in simple organic molecules...... hiện toàn bộ
Serial transfer can aid the evolution of autocatalytic setsJournal of Systems Chemistry - - 2014
Wim Hordijk, Nilesh Vaidya, Niles Lehman
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The concept of an autocatalytic set of molecules has been posited theoretically and demonstrated empirically with catalytic RNA molecules. For this concept to have significance in a realistic origins-of-life scenario, it will be important to demonstrate the evolvability of suc...... hiện toàn bộ
Suitable energetic conditions for dynamic chemical complexity and the living stateJournal of Systems Chemistry - Tập 3 - Trang 1-5 - 2012
Robert Pascal
Any living organism can be considered as a component of a dissipative process coupling an irreversible consumption of energy to the growth, reproduction and evolution of living things. Close interactions between metabolism and reproduction are thus required, which means that metabolism has two main functions. The first one, which is the most easily perceptible, corresponds to the synthesis of the ...... hiện toàn bộ
Pathway control in the self-construction of complex precipitation forms in a Cu(II)-oxalate systemJournal of Systems Chemistry - Tập 3 - Trang 1-6 - 2012
Agota Toth, Dezso Horvath, Akos Kukovecz, Maciej Maselko, Anne Baker, Shareen Ali, Jerzy Maselko
Many biological systems contain complex precipitation patterns. These structures are considered to be the result of finely tuned and genetically encoded developmental pathways. The amount of encoded information needed to generate and manipulate these structures is poorly understood. Investigating the dynamics of spontaneous pattern formation in non-biological systems provides insights to the physi...... hiện toàn bộ
Autocatalytic sets in E. coli metabolismJournal of Systems Chemistry - Tập 6 - Trang 1-21 - 2015
Filipa L Sousa, Wim Hordijk, Mike Steel, William F Martin
A central unsolved problem in early evolution concerns self-organization towards higher complexity in chemical reaction networks. In theory, autocatalytic sets have useful properties to help model such transitions. Autocatalytic sets are chemical reaction systems in which molecules belonging to the set catalyze the synthesis of other members of the set. Given an external supply of starting molecul...... hiện toàn bộ
Is the transition from chemistry to biology a mystery?Journal of Systems Chemistry - Tập 1 - Trang 1-11 - 2010
Hans Kuhn
Today most chemists think that the answer to how life on earth emerged is still unknown. They assume a gap between chemistry and biology that is still unbridged. For chemists, understanding the origin of life requires the experimental modeling of a process that bridges this gap. They will not consider the problem solved before they are able to perform such tasks. No gap appears when we are pursuin...... hiện toàn bộ