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Possible relationship of cryptochrome photoreceptor to the fatty acid desaturation complex
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Evolutionary Aspects of Coenzyme Photobiochemistry
Photochemical processes driven by solar photons have strongly impacted prebiotic accumulation of organic molecules in outer space and on the Earth, and today photosynthesis is an ultimate source of organic mat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Nucleotide and Nucleotide-Like Coenzymes in Primitive Metabolism, Photobiology and Evolution
The evolutionary link between hypothetical primordial RNA world [1] and the modern R(D)NA/Protein biosphere can hardly be revealed by only searching for chemical roots of primitive genetic coding. The analysis of...
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Participation of Free Radicals in Photoreduction of Pterins and Folic Acid
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Coenzymes in Evolution of the RNA World
One of the main problems of the origin of life studies is chemical interpretation of the emergence of organisms capable of both kee** genetic information and catalyzing chemical reactions. The discovery of c...
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Resistance of 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate to ultraviolet radiation
Aeration of aqueous solutions of 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolic acid (MTHF) during exposure to ultraviolet irradiation (λ=300–390 nm, 240 W/m2, 30 min) slowed down photolysis in comparison with deaerated solutions....
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Investigation of the photochemical properties of biopterin and its reduced forms
UV irradiation (270–390 nm, 20 min, I = 3.2 W m−2) of deaerated biopterin solution containing electron donor (Na2-EDTA) led to the formation of 7,8-dihydrobiopterin (H 2
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Photoexcited flavins and pterins as electron injectors for multiheme cytochrome
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Excited flavin and pterin coenzyme molecules in evolution
Excited flavin and pterin molecules are active in intermolecular energy transfer and in photocatalysis of redox reactions resulting in conservation of free energy. Flavin-containing pigments produced in models...
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Photoexcited molecules of pteridine derivatives in prebiotic and biological evolution
In the models of prebiotic processes, flavins and other pteridine derivatives transform light energy into the energy of chemical bonds, including energy-rich bonds of ATP. In the course of biological evolution...
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Modeling of abiotic ATP synthesis in the context of problems of early biosphere evolution
The pathway of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis in living organisms consists of two autonomous stages; this must be taken into account during the design and analysis of chemical models of the abiogenesis...