PMID: 16613058Apr 15, 2006Paper

Physico-chemical determinants of physiOlogical evolution: from protocell to the human

Rossiĭskii fiziologicheskiĭ zhurnal imeni I.M. Sechenova
Iu V Natochin

Abstract

One of the key physiological problems of evolution is elucidation of the role of environmental inorganic factors in origin of life. A statement is substantiated that a highly significant event in evolution of life was the appearance of protocells with the K cytoplasm in K water reservoirs with their subsequent adaptation to the environment in which Na dominated. This step was accompanied by replacement of the cell envelope with the cell plasma membrane. Precursors of animals' elaborated mechanism of maintenance of the K-cytoplasm with Na-counterkation in the environment. In plants, Na remains a trace element, in animals the Na and K contents are approximately equal, but they are present in different fluid phases. In animals presence of Na+ in the external medium, K+ inside cells has become an initial pre-requisition for electrogenesis and appearance of asymmetrical cells. Electrogenesis of these cells has become a physiological pre-requisition for cell differentiation, the appearance of the nerve cell. Asymmetrical cell has provided development of absorption, digestion, excretion, respiration. Formation of the inner medium has become a prerequisite for establishment of homeostasis. Serum osmolality, sodium concentration, pH, Ca...Continue Reading

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