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By calculating values of \u0394\n                    <jats:italic>G<\/jats:italic>\n                    across the conserved and universal core of 402 individual reactions that synthesize amino acids, nucleotides and cofactors from H\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    , CO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    , NH\n                    <jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub>\n                    , H\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    S and phosphate in modern cells, we find that 95\u201397% of these reactions are exergonic (\u0394\n                    <jats:italic>G<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2264 0 kJ\u22c5mol\n                    <jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>\n                    ) at pH 7-10 and 80-100\u00b0C under nonequilibrium conditions with H\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    replacing biochemical reductants. While 23% of the core\u2019s reactions involve ATP hydrolysis, 77% are ATP-independent, thermodynamically driven by \u0394\n                    <jats:italic>G<\/jats:italic>\n                    of reactions involving carbon bonds. We identified 174 reactions that are exergonic by \u201320 to \u2013300 kJ\u22c5mol\n                    <jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>\n                    at pH 9 and 80\u00b0C and that fall into ten reaction types: six pterin dependent alkyl or acyl transfers, ten S-adenosylmethionine dependent alkyl transfers, four acyl phosphate hydrolyses, 14 thioester hydrolyses, 30 decarboxylations, 35 ring closure reactions, 31 aromatic ring formations, and 44 carbon reductions by reduced nicotinamide, flavins, ferredoxin, or formate. 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