Cyanide at the origin of metabolism
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The emergence of protometabolic reactions that evolved into today’s metabolic pathways is unclear. Now, evidence suggests that the chemical origin of biological carbon metabolism may have
relied on the versatility of a single primitive C1 feedstock molecule — hydrogen cyanide.
Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, UK
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