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  • 标题:Alkaline fluid circulation in ultramafic rocks and formation of nucleotide constituents: a hypothesis
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  • 作者:Nils G Holm ; Marion Dumont ; Magnus Ivarsson
  • 期刊名称:Geochemical Transactions
  • 电子版ISSN:1467-4866
  • 出版年度:2006
  • 卷号:7
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:1-7
  • DOI:10.1186/1467-4866-7-7
  • 出版社:BioMed Central
  • 摘要:Seawater is constantly circulating through oceanic basement as a low-temperature hydrothermal fluid (<150°C). In cases when ultramafic rocks are exposed to the fluids, for instance during the initial phase of subduction, ferromagnesian minerals are altered in contact with the water, leading to high pH and formation of secondary magnesium hydroxide, among other – brucite, that may scavenge borate and phosphate from seawater. The high pH may promote abiotic formation of pentoses, particularly ribose. Pentoses are stabilized by borate, since cyclic pentoses form a less reactive complex with borate. Analyses have shown that borate occupies the 2' and 3' positions of ribose, thus leaving the 5' position available for reactions like phosphorylation. The purine coding elements (adenine, in particular) of RNA may be formed in the same general hydrothermal environments of the seafloor.
  • 关键词:Ribose;Hydrothermal System;Ultramafic Rock;Brucite;Ocean Drill Program
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