A chemist turned science writer, Victoria Corless completed her Ph.D. in organic synthesis at the University of Toronto and, ever the cliché, realized lab work was not something she wanted to do for the rest of her days.
Metabolism is the"beating heart of the cell". New research from ELSI retraces the history of metabolism from the primordial Earth to the modern day . The history of compound discovery over time is cyclic, almost resembling an EKG.A missing piece of Earth's evolutionary timeline may have been found.
The team used the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes database, which has catalogued just over 12,000 biochemical reactions, as the model's repository for all possible biochemical reactions that could have taken place and evolved during the studied timeline. Researchers then simulated the expansion of a chemical reaction network starting from a set of initial compounds that would have been found on early Earth.
To construct a model of the evolutionary history of metabolism at the biosphere scale, the research team compiled a database of 12,262 biochemical reactions from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes database.Repeating the experiment with this expanded reaction set resulted in only a slight increase in scope,"suggesting that neither currently catalogued nor predicted biochemistry contains transformations required to reach the vast majority of known metabolites.
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