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Emergence of light-driven protometabolism on recruitment of a photocatalytic cofactor by a self-replicator.
Paper summary
Shows synthetic self-replicators recruiting a photocatalytic cofactor that converts environmental molecules into replication precursors. Light-driven chemistry creates positive feedback between the replicator and its own material supply.
Relevance to the project
A particularly direct example of recurrence-supporting resource influence. Could motivate causal controls disabling resource conversion while leaving aggregation and replication conditions comparable.
Protometabolism and replication are demonstrated in a specific chemical system.
Source record
- Reference ID
- doi-10-1038-s41557-020-0494-4
- Archived version
- ChemRxiv preprint v1, 2019
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/doi-10-1038-s41557-020-0494-4/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.