'...really quite significant for the origin of life.'
, or the reaction of an organic chemical with water that breaks down ATP for use — and that connection with water may be where the secret to ATP's metabolic dominance lies.
AcP is a cellular chemical that single-celled organisms like bacteria and archea still use for their own metabolic processes. Because AcP is so centric to these very early-forming microbial life forms, it's also believed to be one of the earliest cellular chemicals. In other words? AcP was likely here first, and under the right conditions, phosphorylation — and thus ATP — became possible. And with the production of the more complex particle that is ATP, more complex life forms eventually became possible.
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