Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2021

Sitzung

Session IX

27.08.2021, 11:00

Online

4. Beating the serendipity of evolution: Building alternative pathways to generate life’s building blocks from inorganic carbon

Tobias Erb (MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology)

27.08.21, 11:00

11. Coupling ribozyme catalyzed ligation and recombination with heterogeneous reaction environments

Hannes Mutschler (MPI of Biochemistry)

27.08.21, 11:25

Enzymatic ligation and recombination of nucleic acids are key reactions required for both self-replication and the emergence of complex sequence information. It is therefore very likely that these reactions played a fundamental role in early stages of biology. We use different ribozyme systems as models to mimic how these reactions might have proceeded under heterogeneous reaction conditions...