Stabilization of Prebiotic Vesicles by Peptides Depends on Sequence and Chirality : A Mechanism for Selection of Protocell-Associated Peptides

Cells require oligonucleotides and polypeptides with specific, homochiral sequences to perform essential functions, but it is unclear how such oligomers were selected from random sequences at the origin of life. Cells were probably preceded by simple compartments such as fatty acid vesicles, and oli...

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Publié dans:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1985. - 40(2024), 17 vom: 30. Apr., Seite 8971-8980
Auteur principal: Cohen, Zachary R (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Todd, Zoe R, Maibaum, Lutz, Catling, David C, Black, Roy A
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2024
Accès à la collection:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Sujets:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Peptides Alanine OF5P57N2ZX Leucine GMW67QNF9C Dipeptides
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520 |a Cells require oligonucleotides and polypeptides with specific, homochiral sequences to perform essential functions, but it is unclear how such oligomers were selected from random sequences at the origin of life. Cells were probably preceded by simple compartments such as fatty acid vesicles, and oligomers that increased the stability, growth, or division of vesicles could have thereby increased in frequency. We therefore tested whether prebiotic peptides alter the stability or growth of vesicles composed of a prebiotic fatty acid. We find that three of 15 dipeptides tested reduce salt-induced flocculation of vesicles. All three contain leucine, and increasing their length increases the efficacy. Also, leucine-leucine but not alanine-alanine increases the size of vesicles grown by multiple additions of micelles. In a molecular simulation, leucine-leucine docks to the membrane, with the side chains inserted into the hydrophobic core of the bilayer, while alanine-alanine fails to dock. Finally, the heterochiral forms of leucine-leucine, at a high concentration, rapidly shrink the vesicles and make them leakier and less stable to high pH than the homochiral forms do. Thus, prebiotic peptide-membrane interactions influence the flocculation, growth, size, leakiness, and pH stability of prebiotic vesicles, with differential effects due to sequence, length, and chirality. These differences could lead to a population of vesicles enriched for peptides with beneficial sequence and chirality, beginning selection for the functional oligomers that underpin life 
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