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Conditions can be created in which inorganic phosphates act as phosphorylating agents. Such reactions may have occurred in prebiotic chemical processes.
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RABINOWITZ, J., CHANG, S. & PONNAMPERUMA, C. Phosphorylation on the Primitive Earth: Phosphorylation by way of Inorganic Phosphate as a Potential Prebiotic Process. Nature 218, 442–443 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218442a0
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