Prebiotic Evolution 1 Life, error threshold & hypercycle Walter de Back Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study
- what is life? - the chemoton: tibor ganti - error threshold: catch-22 in evolution - hypercycles: coexisting replicators - hypercycles in space: spatial selfstructuring
What is life?
“What is Life today ?”
metabolism boundary template Chemoton Tibor Ganti
Pathways of supersystem evolution metabolism M B boundary M T M B T template B T INFRABIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Modern life
Prebiotic RNA world
Nucleic Acids (DNA, RNA) Store of Biological Information “Genetic “Replication” Information” Complementary Base Pairing A U A = U G C U A G C G C RNA
Error threshold AGUCUGCUAGGUAGCUAGUGAUGUAGUGCGAUG Replication Copying AGUCUGC C AGGUAGCUAGUGAUGUAGU U CGAUG G GUCUGCUAGG C AGCUAGUGAUG C AGUGCGAUG AGUCUGCUAGGUAGCUAG GC AUGUAGUGCGAUG AGUCUGCUAGGUAGCUAGUGGUAGUGCGAUG AGUCUGCUA U GUAGCUAGUGAUGUAGUGCGAUG AGUCUGCUAGGUAGC C AGUGAUGUAGUGCGAUG AGUCUGCUAGGUAGCUAGUGAUGUAGUGCGA G UG AGUCUGCUAGGUAGCUAGUGAUGUAGUGCG UC G A U UCUGCUAGGUA C CUAGUGAUGUAGUGCGAUG AGUCUGCUAGGUAGCU C AGUGAUGUAGUGCGAUG
Error threshold AGUC Replication Copying AGUC G GUC AGUC AGUC AGUC AGUC AGUC AGUC A U UC AGUC
Quasi-species and error threshold
No genome without enzymes, and no enzyme without genomes
Cooperation of unlinked genes the hypercycle
Hypercyles on a surface
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