The ability of pentose pathways to form all essential metabolites provides clues to the origins of metabolism

• Steffen N. Lindner,

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3226-3043

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• Markus Ralser

  * E-mail: markus.ralser@charite.de

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany, Centre For Human Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9535-7413

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