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Amal Alachkar

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Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness.

Physics of Life Reviews September 1, 2022 Amal Alachkar

Sunlight held the key to the origin of life on Earth. The earliest life forms, cyanobacteria, captured the sunlight to generate energy through photosynthesis. Life on Earth evolved in accordance with the circadian rhythms tied to sensitivity to sunlight patterns. A unique feature of cyanobacterial photosynthetic proteins and circadian rhythms' molecules, and later of nearly all photon-sensing...