DüsseldorfPhosphite and palladium could have powered life’s first metabolism.

Every cell uses phosphate as energy currency, and its pre-enzyme origin was unexplained.

Düsseldorf biologists report in The FEBS Journal that both occur in hydrogen-producing hydrothermal vents and form an inorganic precursor of adenosine triphosphate.

The claim is the researchers’ own, and no independent scientist is quoted.

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identifies phosphite and palladium from hydrothermal vents as inorganic precursors to ATP in primordial chemical reactions

Sources: Phys.org