Journal ArticleAuthors : deshpande, kshitij (2023)
Compartmentalization is a primary attribute of cellular life, and hence, the emergence of compartments is considered a central step in the emergence of the earliest protocells.[1–3] Life is thought to have originated in chemically heterogeneous environments, where different chemical entities would have spontaneously interacted with each other, affecting each other’s properties.[4,5] Fatty acids and nucleotides are found abundantly in extant life and are also considered...