Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formationOPEN ACCESS
Orr Rose Bezaly, Annemieke Petrignani & Helen E. King Communications Earth & Environment, Volume 6, Article number: 435 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Clay surfaces have been invoked as crucial components in the origin of…
Site-specific D-H exchange of amino acids under asteroidal hydrothermal conditions
Yuanyuan He, Flavio Siro Brigiano, Michel Sablier, Nadezda Khodorova, David Boulesteix, Arnaud. Buch, Peter Reinhardt, Sylvain Bernard, Laurent Remusat Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 19 March 2025 LINK “Amino acids detected in carbonaceous chondrites are…
Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) BennuOPEN ACCESS
Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, José C. Aponte, Allison A. Baczynski, Jessica J. Barnes, Hans A. Bechtel, Eve L. Berger, Aaron S. Burton, Paola Caselli, Angela H. Chung, Simon J….
The evolution of amino acids under asteroidal aqueous alteration
Y.Y. He, S. Bernard, M. Lecasble, J.-C. Viennet, I. Criouet, D. Boulesteix, N. Khodorova, L. Delbes, M. Guillaumet, F. Baudin, B. Laurent, A. Buch, L. Remusat Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online…
From Meteorite to Life’s Building Blocks: A possible Electrochemical Pathway to Amino Acids and Peptide BondsOPEN ACCESS
Lucas Fernandez, Farzaneh Yari, Günter Hesser, Wolfgang Schöfberger Chemistry – A European JournalFirst published: 20 August 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “This study explores the electrochemical properties of the carbonaceous Allende CV3 meteorite, focusing…
Gamma-Ray-Induced Synthesis of Sugars in Meteorite Parent BodiesOPEN ACCESS
Shunpei Abe, Isao Yoda, Kensei Kobayashi, and Yoko Kebukawa* ACS Earth and Space ChemistryAugust 15, 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Sugars play an indispensable role for all living organisms. Given that certain sugars have…
The astrochemical evolutionary traits of phospholipid membrane homochirality
Jana Bocková, Nykola C. Jones, Søren V. Hoffmann & Cornelia Meinert Nature Reviews Chemistry, Review Article, Published: 18 July 2024 LINK “Compartmentalization is crucial for the evolution of life. Present-day phospholipid membranes exhibit a high…
High-spatial resolution functional chemistry of nitrogen compounds in the observed UK meteorite fall WinchcombeOPEN ACCESS
Christian Vollmer, Demie Kepaptsoglou, Jan Leitner, Aleksander B. Mosberg, Khalil El Hajraoui, Ashley J. King, Charlotte L. Bays, Paul F. Schofield, Tohru Araki & Quentin M. Ramasse LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Organic matter in…
Aqueous breakdown of aspartate and glutamate to n-ω-amino acids on the parent bodies of carbonaceous chondrites and asteroid RyuguOPEN ACCESS
Yamei Li, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Yasuhito Sekine, Yoko Kebukawa, Yuko Nakano, Norio Kitadai, Naizhong Zhang, Xiaofeng Zang, Yuichiro Ueno, Gen Fujimori, Ryuhei nalamura, Kosuke Fujishima and Junko Isa Science Advances15 Dec 2023Vol 9, Issue LINK (OPEN…
Xeno Amino Acids: A look into biochemistry as we don’t know itOPEN ACCESS
Sean M. Brown, Christopher Mayer-Bacon, Stephen Freeland Preprint, to be submitted to Life LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Would another origin of life resemble Earth’s biochemistry? Here, consider that question specifically in terms of amino acids,…
Prebiotic Vitamin B3 Synthesis in Carbonaceous PlanetesimalsOPEN ACCESS
Klaus Paschek, Mijin Lee, Dmitry A. Semenov, Thomas K. Henning Accepted for publication in ChemPlusChem. PDF (OPEN ACCESS)Supporting Information “Aqueous chemistry within carbonaceous planetesimals is promising for synthesizing prebiotic organic matter essential to all life….
Position-specific carbon isotopes of Murchison amino acids elucidate extraterrestrial abiotic organic synthesis networksOPEN ACCESS
Sarah S. Zeichner, Laura Chimiak, Jamie E. Elsila, Alex L. Sessions, Jason P. Dworkin, José C. Aponte, John M. Eiler Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 14 June 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)…
Uncovering the chiral bias of meteoritic isovaline through asymmetric photochemistryOPEN ACCESS
Jana Bocková, Nykola C. Jones, Jérémie Topin, Søren V. Hoffmann & Cornelia Meinert Nature Communications, Volume 14, Article number: 3381 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Systematic enrichments of l-amino acids in meteorites is a strong…
Elemental sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon monoxide-driven dimerization of glycine at sub-millimolar concentrations: Implications for the origin of lifeOPEN ACCESS
Norio Kitadai, Shigeru Shimamura, Wataru Takahagi, Masayuki Miyazaki, Eiji Tasumi, Satoshi Okada Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 3 April 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The life’s origin in submarine hydrothermal systems is a long-standing scenario supported…
Evaluating the abiotic synthesis potential and the stability of building blocks of life beneath an impact-induced steam atmosphereOPEN ACCESS
Zongbin Zhang, Haofan Jiang, Pengcheng Ju, Lu Pan, Joti Rouillard, Gentao Zhou, Fang Huang and Jihua Hao Frontiers in Microbiology, Volume 14 – 2023, 03 April 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “A prerequisite for prebioticIf applicable,…
Insights into the formation and evolution of extraterrestrial amino acids from the asteroid RyuguOPEN ACCESS
Christian Potiszil, Tsutomu Ota, Masahiro Yamanaka, Chie Sakaguchi, Katsura Kobayashi, Ryoji Tanaka, Tak Kunihiro, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Masanao Abe, Akiko Miyazaki, Aiko Nakato, Satoru Nakazawa, Masahiro Nishimura, Tatsuaki Okada, Takanao Saiki, Satoshi Tanaka, Fuyuto Terui, Yuichi…
Extraterrestrial Amino Acids and Amines Identified in Asteroid Ryugu Samples Returned by the Hayabusa2 Mission
Eric T. Parker, Hannah L. McLain, Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin, Jamie E. Elsila, José C. Aponte, Hiroshi Naraoka, Yoshinori Takano, Shogo Tachibana, Hikaru Yabuta, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Kanako Sakamoto, Toru Yada, Masahiro Nishimura, Aiko…
Soluble organic molecules in samples of the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
Hiroshi Naraoka, Yoshinori Takano, Jason P. Dworkin, Yasuhiro Oba, Kenji Hamase, Aogu Furusho, Nanako O. Ogawa, Minako Hashiguchi, Kazuhiko Fukushima, […], and Yuichi Tsuda Science24 Feb 2023Vol 379, Issue 6634 LINK “Structured Abstract INTRODUCTIONSurface material…
The amino acid and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compositions of the promptly recovered CM2 Winchcombe carbonaceous chondriteOPEN ACCESS
Queenie H. S. Chan, Jonathan S. Watson, Mark A. Sephton, Áine C. O’Brien, Lydia J. Hallis MAPSVersion of Record online: 09 January 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The rapid recovery of the Winchcombe meteorite offers a valuable opportunity…
Meteorite Parent Body Aqueous Alteration Simulations of Interstellar Residue AnalogsOPEN ACCESS
Danna Qasim, Hannah L. McLain, José C. Aponte, Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin, and Christopher K. Materese ACS Earth Space Chem. 2023, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXXPublication Date: January 9, 2023 LINKSupporting information (PDF, OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Some families of…
Gamma-Ray-Induced Amino Acid Formation in Aqueous Small Bodies in the Early Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Yoko Kebukawa, Shinya Asano, Atsushi Tani, Isao Yoda, and Kensei Kobayashi ACS Central SciencePublication Date: December 7, 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Carbonaceous chondrites contain life’s essential building blocks, including amino acids, and their…
Chiroptical activity of gas-phase propylene oxide predicting the handedness of interstellar circular polarization in the presolar nebulaOPEN ACCESS
Adrien D. Garcia, Jérémie Topin, Jana Bocková, Nykola C. Jones, Søren V. Hoffmann, and Cornelia Meinert Science Advances, 18 Nov 2022, Vol 8, Issue 46 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Propylene oxide, the first chiral…
Detection of the amino acid histidine and its breakup products in hypervelocity impact ice spectra
Zach Ulibarri, Tobin Munsat, Michael Voss, John Fontanese, Mihály Horányi, Sascha Kempf, Zoltan Sternovsky IcarusAvailable online 2 November 2022 LINK “Highlights • Laboratory study of hypervelocity impact plumes from micron-scale dust accelerated into histidine-bearing water…
Chiral 480 nm absorption in the hemoglycin space polymer: a possible link to replicationOPEN ACCESS
Julie E. M. McGeoch & Malcolm W. McGeoch Scientific Reports, Volume 12, Article number: 16198Published: 28 September 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A 1494 Dalton hemoglycin space polymer of Glycine18 Hydroxy-glycine4 Fe2O4 termed the…
Geoelectrochemistry-driven alteration of amino acids to derivative organics in carbonaceous chondrite parent bodiesOPEN ACCESS
Yamei Li, Norio Kitadai, Yasuhito Sekine, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Yuko Nakano & Kristin Johnson-Finn Nature Communications, Volume 13, Article number: 4893 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A long-standing question regarding carbonaceous chondrites (CCs) is how the…
Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Tetsuya Yokoyama, Kazuhide Nagashima, Izumi Nakai, Edward D. Young, Yoshinari Abe, Jérôme Aléon, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, Sachiko Amari, Yuri Amelin, Ken-ichi Bajo, Martin Bizzarro, Audrey Bouvier, Richard W. Carlson, Marc Chaussidon, Byeon-Gak Choi, Nicolas…
On the origin and evolution of the asteroid Ryugu: A comprehensive geochemical perspectiveOPEN ACCESS
Eizo NAKAMURA , Katsura KOBAYASHI, Ryoji TANAKA, Tak KUNIHIRO, Hiroshi KITAGAWA, Christian POTISZIL, Tsutomu OTA, Chie SAKAGUCHI, Masahiro YAMANAKA, Dilan M. RATNAYAKE, Havishk TRIPATHI, Rahul KUMAR, Maya-Liliana AVRAMESCU, Hidehisa TSUCHIDA, Yusuke YACHI, Hitoshi MIURA, Masanao…
Synthesis of Amino Acids from Aldehydes and Ammonia: Implications for Organic Reactions in Carbonaceous Chondrite Parent BodiesOPEN ACCESS
Toshiki Koga and Hiroshi Naraoka ACS Earth and Space ChemistryPublication Date: April 22, 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Strecker cyanohydrin synthesis is a known mechanism for the formation of amino acids from aldehydes,…
Glycine amino acid transformation under impacts by small solar system bodies, simulated via high-pressure torsion methodOPEN ACCESS
Kaveh Edalati, Ikuo Taniguchi, Ricardo Floriano & Augusto Ducati Luchessi Scientific Reports, Volume 12, Article number: 5677Published: 05 April 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Impacts by small solar system bodies (meteoroids, asteroids, comets and…
Non-protein amino acids identified in carbon-rich Hayabusa particles
Eric T. Parker, Queenie H. S. Chan, Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin MAPSVersion of Record online: 08 March 2022 LINK “Amino acid abundances in acid-hydrolyzed hot water extracts of gold foils containing five Category…
Experimental and Theoretical Constraints on Amino Acid Formation from PAHs in Asteroidal SettingsOPEN ACCESS
Claudia-Corina Giese, Inge Loes ten Kate, Martijn P. A. van den Ende, Mariette Wolthers, José C. Aponte, Eloi Camprubi, Jason P. Dworkin, Jamie E. Elsila, Suzanne Hangx, Helen E. King, Hannah L. Mclain, Oliver Plümper,…
Amino Acid Analyses of a Sample of Ryugu by a Combination of Liquid Chromatography and High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Techniques
Parker E. T. * Furusho A. Glavin D. P. Hamase K. Naraoka H. et al. PDF LPSC 2022 abstract [#2651] “This abstract summarizes the amino acid analyses of the acid-hydrolyzed, hot water extract of the…
Shock experiments with an l-alanine solution and implications for the cometary delivery of amino acids and dimers with enantiomeric excesses to the early Earth
Koichi Mimura, Riku Okada Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 4 February 2022 LINK “Shock experiments on an aqueous l-alanine solution were undertaken to examine the significance of cometary impacts in supplying prebiotic compounds to the…
Isotope effects at the origin of life: Fingerprints of the Strecker synthesis
L. Chimiak, J. Eiler, A. Sessions, C. Blumenfeld, M. Klatte, B.M. Stoltz Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 20 January 2022 LINK “Strecker synthesis creates α–amino acids from prebiotically plausible substrates (cyanide, ammonia, and aldehydes) and…
Low total abundances and a predominance of n-ω-amino acids in enstatite chondrites: Implications for thermal stability of amino acids in the inner solar system
Danielle N. Simkus, José C. Aponte, Jamie E. Elsila, Hannah L. McLain, Eric T. Parker, Jason P. Dworkin, Daniel P. Glavin Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 25 October 2021 LINK “Investigating the organic…
Extraterrestrial hydroxy amino acids in CM and CR carbonaceous chondrites
Toshiki Koga, Eric T. Parker, Hannah L. McLain, José C. Aponte, Jamie E. Elsila, Jason P. Dworkin, Daniel P. Glavin, Hiroshi Naraoka Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 11 June 2021 LINK “The abundances,…
Chiroptical activity of hydroxycarboxylic acids with implications for the origin of biological homochiralityOPEN ACCESS
Jana Bocková, Nykola C. Jones, Uwe J. Meierhenrich, Søren V. Hoffmann & Cornelia Meinert Communications Chemistry, Volume 4, Article number: 86 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Circularly polarised light (CPL) interacting with interstellar organic…
Chiral Selection, Isotopic Abundance Shifts, and Autocatalysis of Meteoritic Amino AcidsOPEN ACCESS
Michael A. Famiano, Richard N. Boyd, Takashi Onaka, Toshitaka Kajino to be published in Physical Review Research PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The discovery of amino acids in meteorites has presented two clues to the origin of…
Discovery in space of ethanolamine, the simplest phospholipid head groupOPEN ACCESS
Víctor M. Rivilla, Izaskun Jiménez-Serra, Jesús Martín-Pintado, Carlos Briones, Lucas F. Rodríguez-Almeida, Fernando Rico-Villas, Belén Tercero, Shaoshan Zeng, Laura Colzi, Pablo de Vicente, Sergio Martín, Miguel A. Requena-Torres Accepted in PNAS PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update…
Synthesis of 13C-enriched amino acids with 13C-depleted insoluble organic matter in a formose-type reaction in the early solar systemOPEN ACCESS
Yoshihiro Furukawa, Yoshinari Iwasa, Yoshito Chikaraishi Science Advances, 28 Apr 2021:Vol. 7, no. 18, eabd3575 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Solvent-soluble organic matter (SOM) in meteorites, which includes life’s building molecules, is suspected to originate…
Amino acid abundances and compositions in iron and stony‐iron meteorites
Jamie E. Elsila, Natasha M. Johnson, Daniel P. Glavin, José C. Aponte, Jason P. Dworkin Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 25 March 2021 LINK “The organic compositions of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites have been…
Meteoritic Proteins with Glycine, Iron and LithiumOPEN ACCESS
Malcolm W. McGeoch, Sergei Dikler, Julie E. M. McGeoch PDF (OPEN ACCESS) see also similar text: Hemolithin: a Meteoritic Protein containing Iron and Lithium (22 February 2020) “We report that polymer amide [1] with a…
The Detection of Aromatic Amino Acids in CR Chondrites Suggests They are Prebiotically Plausible
Burton A. S., Berger E. L., Fox A. C., Lee C. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021), Abstract #1475 PDF “Aromatic amino acids are hard to make in the lab, but their presence as…
Evidence for Extraterrestrial L-Amino Acid Excesses in the CM2 Aguas Zarcas and Murchison Meteorites: Predictions for Ryugu and Bennu
Glavin D. P., Elsila J. E., McLain H. L., Aponte J. C., Parker E. T. et al. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021), Abstract #1086 PDF “We report the detection of extraterrestrial L-amino acids…
Abiotic Synthesis of Organic Matter in Aqueous Environments Simulating Parent Bodies of Meteorites and the Effects of Minerals on the Production of Amino Acids
W. Elmasry, Kebukawa Y., Shibuya T., Kobayashi K. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021), Abstract #1775 PDF “Minerals affected the formation of amino acids in aqueous environments in small solar system bodies and that…
Meteoritic amino acids as chemical tracers of parent body chemistries
Y Ellinger, M Lattelais, F Pauzat, J-C Guillemin, B Zanda Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stab217 LINK “The analysis of the organic matter of meteorites made it possible to identify over 70 amino…
Synthesis of Organic Matter in Aqueous Environments Simulating Small Bodies in the Solar System and the Effects of Minerals on Amino Acid FormationOPEN ACCESS
Walaa Elmasry, Yoko Kebukawa, and Kensei Kobayashi Life 2021, 11(1), 32 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “The extraterrestrial delivery of organics to primitive Earth has been supported by many laboratory and space experiments. Minerals played an…
Analysis of amino acids, hydroxy acids, and amines in CR chondritesOPEN ACCESS
José C. Aponte, Jamie E. Elsila, Jason E. Hein, Jason P. Dworkin, Daniel P. Glavin, Hannah L. McLain, Eric T. Parker, Timothy Cao, Eve L. Berger, Aaron S. Burton Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record…
Structural and spectral properties of astronomical complex organic molecules: 1:1:1 glycine-X-Y and Y-glycine-X
Anita Kabi, Pradipta K.Behera, Prabhat K. Sahu Molecular AstrophysicsAvailable online 21 November 2020 LINK “Current research to understand astrochemistry and astrobiology with regard to the weakly bound astronomical complexes including amino acids in the Inter-Stellar…
Carbon isotope evidence for the substrates and mechanisms of prebiotic synthesis in the early solar system
L. Chimiak, J.E. Elsila, B. Dallas, J.P. Dworkin, J.C. Aponte, A.L. Sessions, J.M. Eiler Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 29 September 2020 LINK “Meteorites contain prebiotic, bio-relevant organic compounds including amino…
Abundant extraterrestrial amino acids in the primitive CM carbonaceous chondrite Asuka 12236
Daniel P. Glavin, Hannah L. McLain, Jason P. Dworkin, Eric T. Parker, Jamie E. Elsila, José C. Aponte, Danielle N. Simkus, Chad I. Pozarycki, Heather V. Graham, Larry R. Nittler, Conel M.O’D. Alexander Meteoritics &…
ORIGIN: a novel and compact Laser Desorption – Mass Spectrometry system for sensitive in situ detection of amino acids on extraterrestrial surfacesOPEN ACCESS
Niels F. W. Ligterink, Valentine Grimaudo, Pavel Moreno-García, Rustam Lukmanov, Marek Tulej, Ingo Leya, Robert Lindner, Peter Wurz, Charles S. Cockell, Pascale Ehrenfreund & Andreas Riedo Scientific Reports volume 10, Article number: 9641 (2020) LINK…
Impact-induced amino acid formation on Hadean Earth and Noachian MarsOPEN ACCESS
Yuto Takeuchi, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Takamichi Kobayashi, Toshimori Sekine, Naoki Terada & Takeshi Kakegawa Scientific Reports 10 , 1–7 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Abiotic synthesis of biomolecules is an essential step for the chemical origin…
Explaining the Variations in Isotopic Ratios in Meteoritic Amino AcidsOPEN ACCESS
Michael A. Famiano, Richard N. Boyd, Toshitaka Kajino, Satoshi Chiba, Yirong Mo, Takashi Onaka, Toshi Suzuki PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (6 August 2020): LINK “Measurements of the isotopic abundances in meteoritic amino acids have found…
Evidence for sodium-rich alkaline water in the Tagish Lake parent body and implications for amino acid synthesis and racemizationOPEN ACCESS
Lee F. White, Kimberly T. Tait, Brian Langelier, Elizabeth A. Lymer, Ana Černok, Tanya V. Kizovski, Chi Ma, Oliver Tschauner, and Richard I. Nicklin PNAS, first published May 11, 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Extraterrestrial amino acids and L‐enantiomeric excesses in the CM2 carbonaceous chondrites Aguas Zarcas and Murchison
Daniel P. Glavin, Jamie E. Elsila, Hannah L. McLain, José C. Aponte, Eric T. Parker, Jason P. Dworkin, Dolores H. Hill, Harold C. Connolly, Dante S. Lauretta Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 25 February…
Exposure Experiments of Amorphous Silicates and Organics to Cometary Ice and Vapor AnalogsOPEN ACCESS
Aki Takigawa, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Yuki Kimura, Björn Davidsson, and Tomoki Nakamura The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 881, Number 1 Published 2019 August 8 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Hydration is a major mineral alteration process…
Methodologies for Analyzing Soluble Organic Compounds in Extraterrestrial Samples: Amino Acids, Amines, Monocarboxylic Acids, Aldehydes, and KetonesOPEN ACCESS
Danielle N. Simkus, José C. Aponte, Jamie E. Elsila, Eric T. Parker, Daniel P. Glavin and Jason P. Dworkin Life 2019, 9 (2), 47 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Soluble organic compositions of extraterrestrial samples…
New insights into the heterogeneity of the Tagish Lake meteorite: Soluble organic compositions of variously altered specimens
Danielle N. Simkus, José C. Aponte, Jamie E. Elsila, Robert W. Hilts, Hannah L. McLain, Christopher D. K. Herd LINK “The Tagish Lake carbonaceous chondrite exhibits a unique compositional heterogeneity that may be attributed to…
Interstellar ices: a possible scenario for symmetry breaking of extraterrestrial chiral organic molecules of prebiotic interestOPEN ACCESS
Louis D’hendecourt, Paola Modica (LPC2E), Cornelia Meinert (ICN), Laurent Nahon (SSOLEIL), Uwe Meierhenrich (LCMBA) Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science, 2019 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “In the laboratory, the photo-and thermochemical evolution of ices,…
Polymer amide as a carrier of 15N in Allende and Acfer 086 meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Maclolm W McGEOCH, Tomáš ŠAMOŘIL, David ZAPOTOK, Julie E M McGEOCH PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Polymers of amino acids have been found in Allende and Acfer 086, with extra-terrestrial origin evidenced by isotopically enhanced satellite peaks…
Compound‐specific carbon isotope compositions of aldehydes and ketones in the Murchison meteorite
Danielle N. Simkus, José C. Aponte, Robert W. Hilts, Jamie E. Elsila, Christopher D. K. Herd Meteoritics & Planetary Science First published: 14 October 2018 LINK “Compound‐specific carbon isotope analysis (δ13C) of meteoritic organic compounds…
The Amino Acid Distribution in Laboratory Analogs of Extraterrestrial Organic Matter: A Comparison to CM Chondrites
P. Modica, Z. Martins, C. Meinert, B. Zanda, and L. L. S. d’Hendecourt The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 865, Number 1 LINK “Laboratory experiments that simulate the photo- and thermo-chemistry of extraterrestrial ices always lead to…
Effect of polychromatic X‐ray microtomography imaging on the amino acid content of the Murchison CM chondrite
Jon M. Friedrich, Hannah L. McLain, Jason P. Dworkin, Daniel P. Glavin, W. Henry Towbin, Morgan Hill, Denton S. Ebel Meteoritics & Planetary Science First published: 23 August 2018 LINK “X‐ray microcomputed tomography (μCT) is…
The soluble organic compounds of the Mukundpura meteorite: A new CM chondrite fall
Sandra Pizzarello, Christopher T. Yarnes Planetary and Space Science Available online 2 July 2018 LINK “Highlights • The first analyses of water-soluble organic content of the MK meteorite are presented and MK composition appears to…
Amino Acid Chiral Selection Via Weak Interactions in Stellar Environments: Implications for the Origin of LifeOPEN ACCESS
Michael A. Famiano, Richard N. Boyd, Toshitaka Kajino, Takashi Onaka & Yirong Mo Scientific Reportsvolume 8, Article number: 8833 (2018) LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Magnetochiral phenomena may be responsible for the selection of…
Indigenous Amino Acids in Iron Meteorites
J. E. Elsila, J. P. Dworkin, D. P. Glavin, N. M. Johnson 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2018), Abstract #1520 abstract
A Hypothesis to Explain the Presence of Amino Acids in the Tagish Lake Meteorite
Bassez M. P. * 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2017 [#6035] abstract (PDF) “The Tagish Lake meteorite contains organic matter abiotically synthesized. An explanation is proposed on the basis of thermodynamic calculations and…
A new family of extraterrestrial amino acids in the Murchison meteoriteOPEN ACCESS
Toshiki Koga & Hiroshi Naraoka Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 636 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00693-9 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The occurrence of extraterrestrial organic compounds is a key for understanding prebiotic organic synthesis in the universe. In particular,…
One-pot synthesis of amino acid precursors with insoluble organic matter in planetesimals with aqueous activityOPEN ACCESS
By Yoko Kebukawa, Queenie H. S. Chan, Shogo Tachibana, Kensei Kobayashi, Michael E. Zolensky Science Advances 17 Mar 2017: Vol. 3, no. 3, e1602093 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602093 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The exogenous delivery…
Effect of Tube-Based X-Ray Microtomography Imaging on the Amino Acid and Amine Content of the Murchison CM2 Chondrite
D. P. Glavin, J. M. Friedrich, J. C. Aponte, J. P. Dworkin, D. S. Ebel, J. E. Elsila, M. Hill, H. L. McLain, W. H. Towbin 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #1070…
The key role of meteorites in the formation of relevant prebiotic molecules in a formamide/water environmentOPEN ACCESS
Luca Rotelli, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Carles E. Moyano-Cambero, Eleonora Carota, Lorenzo Botta, Ernesto Di Mauro & Raffaele Saladino Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 38888 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep38888 Published online: 13 December 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF…
Morphological changes of olivine grains reacted with amino acid solutions by impact process
Yuhei Umeda, Atsushi Takase, Nao Fukunaga, Toshimori Sekine, Takamichi Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Takeshi Kakegawa Physics and Chemistry of Minerals First Online:04 October 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s00269-016-0849-y LINK “Early oceans on Earth might have contained certain amounts…
Magnetite plaquettes are naturally asymmetric materials in meteorites
Queenie H.S.Chan, Michael E.Zolensky, James E.Martinez, AkiraTsuchiyama, AkiraMiyake American Mineralogist, v. 101, i. 9, p. 2041-2050, First Published on September 01, 2016, doi:10.2138/am-2016-5604 LINK “Life on Earth shows preference toward the set of organics with…
Excess of L-alanine in amino acids synthesized in a plasma torch generated by a hypervelocity meteorite impact reproduced in the laboratory
George G. Managadze, Michael H. Engel, Stephanie Getty, Peter Wurz, William B. Brinckerhoff, Anatoly G. Shokolov, Gennady V. Sholin, Sergey A. Terent’ev, Alexander E. Chumikov, Alexander S. Skalkin, Vladimir D. Blank, Vyacheslav M. Prokhorov, Nina…
Aliphatic Amines in Antarctic CR2, CM2, and CM1/2 Carbonaceous Chondrites
José C. Aponte, Hannah L. McLain, Jason P. Dworkin, Jamie E. Elsila Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 18 June 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.06.018 LINK “Meteoritic water-soluble organic compounds provide a unique record…
Extended In-Situ Search of Amino Acids in the Murchison Meteorite
Henkel T. * Lyon I. C. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6437 LINK
Prebiotic chemicals—amino acid and phosphorus—in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Kathrin Altwegg, Hans Balsiger, Akiva Bar-Nun, Jean-Jacques Berthelier, Andre Bieler, Peter Bochsler, Christelle Briois, Ursina Calmonte, Michael R. Combi, Hervé Cottin, Johan De Keyser, Frederik Dhooghe, Bjorn Fiethe, Stephen A. Fuselier, Sébastien Gasc, Tamas I….
Influence of mineralogy on the preservation of amino acids under simulated Mars conditionsOPEN ACCESS
Renato dos Santos, Manish Patel, Javier Cuadros, Zita Martins Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 May 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The detection of organic molecules associated with life on Mars is one of…
A contamination assessment of the CI carbonaceous meteorite Orgueil using a DNA-directed approach.
Aerts, J. W., Elsaesser, A., Röling, W. F. M. and Ehrenfreund, P. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12629 LINK “The Orgueil meteorite has become one of the most well-studied carbonaceous meteorites, after it fell in…
Effect of a synchrotron X-ray microtomography imaging experiment on the amino acid content of a CM chondrite.
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