Near-resonant diurnal reactions: a physical model applicable to origin of life processes

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dc.contributor.authorBudding, Edwin
dc.contributor.authorAkı, Cüneyt
dc.contributor.authorDemircan, Osman
dc.contributor.authorGunduz, Bulent
dc.contributor.authorGunduz, Gungor
dc.contributor.authorOzel, Mehmet Emin
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:29:21Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:29:21Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractWe adopt that the large residual chemical potential energy (CPE) among reagents of the biosphere constitutes the key physical problem posed by life. We associate the formation of this CPE with the near-resonant behaviour of a two-stage 'A-B' molecular process that behaves as a self-sustaining parametric oscillator. Under suitable conditions, such an oscillator generates CPE when forced by a periodic (daily) insolation. The net growth factor required to explain the current mean excess of biospheric CPE is similar to 5x10(-12) d(-1). This aligns with the mean exponential coefficient of secular oxygen generation in the terrestrial atmosphere. It is also consistent with a feasible scale of oxygen production in certain prebiotic natural photosynthesis scenarios, that can be candidates for the initial A subprocess on the Earth. We schematize initial evolutionary development of the A-B process, including the important role of the intermediate AB compound that provides negative feedback. Supportive C-type molecules also develop as a by-product. The diurnally related distribution of H2O2 on Mars may illustrate a comparable proto-biospheric scheme, and there may be analogous processes on Jupiter. The exponential growth in the lengths of terrestrial nucleotide chain molecules also supports its validity, as does the corresponding growth in measures of cellular complexity. We compare the scenario's implications with biological evidence on the possible co-evolution of blue-light photoreception and circadian timing in Archean photoautotrophs. We consider how a surviving level of cellular organization of circadian rhythmicity, from ancient through to modern times, may be interpreted along these lines, comparing our model with a previously published, comparable, biochemical one.
dc.identifier.doi10.3906/fiz-1107-8
dc.identifier.endpage493
dc.identifier.issn1300-0101
dc.identifier.issn1303-6122
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84865253072
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage473
dc.identifier.trdizinid135085
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3906/fiz-1107-8
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/135085
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/22920
dc.identifier.volume36
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000420325500018
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTubitak Scientific & Technological Research Council Turkey
dc.relation.ispartofTurkish Journal of Physics
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectOrigin of life
dc.subjectchemical potential energy
dc.subjectparametric oscillator equation
dc.subjectinsolation
dc.subjectbiosphere
dc.subjectresonance
dc.subjectfeedback
dc.subjectoxygen generation
dc.subjectprotonucleosides
dc.titleNear-resonant diurnal reactions: a physical model applicable to origin of life processes
dc.typeArticle

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