Phase separation, charge separation and biogenesis.
The current view of bioenergetics postulates transmembrane charge separation as a primary mechanism of energy storage and transformation. Using that bioenergetic view we examine possible methods of photon driven transduction in primordial vesicles. Two possible types of proton pumps are analyzed and a method of anaerobic photophosphorylation is discussed. Using these principles we theorize about the formation of prebiotic photochemical vesicles utilizing the same transmembrane energy conversions characteristic of contemporary cellular systems.
D000693:Anaerobiosis; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D004735:Energy Transfer; D010710:Phosphates; D010785:Photophosphorylation; D011199:Potentiometry
D010710:Phosphates