Researchers from the University of Strasbourg have demonstrated that hydrogen gas and simple metals or meteorites cause parts of the reverse Krebs cycle to occur without enzymes. Some version of this metabolic pathway is thought to date back to life’s origin. The results of this study support the hypothesis that naturally occurring metals acted as catalysts for the first protometabolic reactions.
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