How Life Began - Metabolism
Channel: Curiosity Lab
Date: 14/03/2022

One of the greatest myteries of biology is how life itself arose. A key aspect is how diverse metabolic reactions evolved from simple abiotic reactions.

Chapters:
00:00 The Miller-Urey-Experiment
01:28 Intro
01:38 A Pathway Older Than It's Enzymes
04:12 Thermodynamics of LUCA
08:21 Conclusion

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Main Sources:
- Martin 2020, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00817
- Wimmer et al. 2021, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.793664

Pictures and Videos:
- Birth_of_a_Multi-nucleated_Cell: Erin Rod, CC BY 4.0
- Bacterial_chemotaxis_to_glucose,_sugar,_&_glycine_exposure: Erin Rod, CC BY 4.0 
- S15-Competitive_Phagocytosis_Assay_in_Collagen: Judith Behnsen, Priyanka Narang, Mike Hasenberg, Frank Gunzer, Ursula Bilitewski, Nina Klippel, Manfred Rohde, Matthias Brock, Axel A. Brakhage, Matthias Gunzer, CC BY 2.5
- Methanothermobacter: Andreas Klingl, CC-BY 4.0
- E.coli-colony-growth: Stewart EJ, Madden R, Paul G, Taddei F (2005), CC BY-SA 4.0 
- Time-lapse_video_of_16-cell_purple_urchin_embryo__CIL15792: George von Dassow et al., CC BY-SA 1.0
- Travel_Deep_Inside_a_Leaf_-_Annotated_Version_-_California_Academy_of_Sciences: California Academy of Sciences, CC BY 3.0
- The-Sound-Generated-by-Mid-Ocean-Ridge-Black-Smoker-Hydrothermal-Vents-pone.0000133.s002: Crone T, Wilcock W, Barclay A, Parsons J, CC BY 2.5
- Microscale-insights-into-pneumococcal-antibiotic-mutant-selection-windows-ncomms9773-s8: Sorg R, Veening J, CC BY 4.0 
- Glitter-Like-Iridescence-within-the-Bacteroidetes-Especially-Cellulophaga-spp.-Optical-Properties-pone.0052900.s001: Kientz B, Ducret A, Luke S, Vukusic P, Mignot T, Rosenfeld E, CC BY 2.5 
- An-epigenetic-regulator-emerges-as-microtubule-minus-end-binding-and-stabilizing-factor-in-mitosis-ncomms8889-s6: Meunier S, Shvedunova M, Van Nguyen N, Avila L, Vernos I, Akhtar A, CC BY 4.0
- Metabolic_Metro_Map: Chakazul, CC BY-SA 4.0