Stable carbon isotope evolution of formaldehyde on early MarsOPEN ACCESS
Shungo Koyama, Tatsuya Yoshida, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Naoki Terada, Yuichiro Ueno, Yuki Nakamura, Arihiro Kamada, Takeshi Kuroda & Ann Carine Vandaele Scientific Reports, Volume 14, article number 21214, 17 September 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
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…
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…
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,…
Abundant extraterrestrial purine nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite: Implications for a unified mechanism for purine synthesis in carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies
Toshiki Koga, Yoshinori Takano, Yasuhiro Oba, Hiroshi Naraoka, Naohiko Ohkouchi Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 18 October 2023 LINK “Extraterrestrial nucleobases are of key interest owing to their implications for the…
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….
Synthesis of prebiotic organics from CO2 by catalysis with meteoritic and volcanic particlesOPEN ACCESS
Sophia Peters, Dmitry A. Semenov, Rupert Hochleitner & Oliver Trapp Scientific Reports, Volume 13, Article number: 6843 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The emergence of prebiotic organics was a mandatory step toward the origin of…
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…
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…
Hydrogen Drives Part of the Reverse Krebs Cycle under Metal or Meteorite CatalysisOPEN ACCESS
Sophia A. Rauscher, Joseph Moran Angewandte Chemie International EditionFirst published: 17 October 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Hydrogen (H2) is a geological source of reducing electrons that is thought to have powered the metabolism…
Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine nucleobases in carbonaceous meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Yasuhiro Oba, Yoshinori Takano, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Toshiki Koga, Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin & Hiroshi Naraoka Nature Communications, Volume 13, Article number: 2008Published: 26 April 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Supplementary Information “The…
Ribose Synthesis in Carbonaceous PlanetesimalsOPEN ACCESS
Klaus Paschek, Kai Kohler, Ben K. D. Pearce, Kevin Lange, Thomas K. Henning, Oliver Trapp, Ralph E. Pudritz, and Dmitry A. Semenov Life 2022, 12(3), 404Published: 10 March 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “The origin…
Meteorites and the RNA world: Synthesis of Nucleobases in Carbonaceous Planetesimals and the Role of Initial Volatile ContentOPEN ACCESS
Klaus Paschek, Dmitry A. Semenov, Ben K. D. Pearce, Kevin Lange, Thomas K. Henning, Ralph E. Pudritz Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (10 January 2023): The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 942, Number…
A New “Non-energetic” Route to Complex Organic Molecules in Astrophysical Environments: The C + H2O → H2CO Solid-state Reaction
Alexey Potapov, Serge A. Krasnokutski, Cornelia Jäger, and Thomas Henning The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 920, Number 2 LINK “The solid-state reaction C + H2O → H2CO was studied experimentally following the co-deposition of C atoms…
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…
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…
Study of Fischer-Tropsch Type reactions on chondritic meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Victoria Cabedo, Jordi Llorca, Josep Maria Trigo-Rodríguez, Albert Rimola Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “How simple organic matter appeared on Earth and the processes by which it transformed into more…
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…
Extraterrestrial hexamethylenetetramine in meteorites—a precursor of prebiotic chemistry in the inner solar systemOPEN ACCESS
Yasuhiro Oba, Yoshinori Takano, Hiroshi Naraoka, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin & Shogo Tachibana Nature Communications 11 , 1–8 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Despite extensive studies on the formation of organic…
Formation and delivery of complex organic molecules to the Solar System and early EarthOPEN ACCESS
Sun Kwok to be published as Chapter 4.2 in Handbook of Astrobiology, Vera Kolb (ed.), CRC Press, p. 165 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The late stages of stellar evolution from asymptotic giant branch stars to planetary…
Prebiotic Sugar Formation Under Nonaqueous Conditions and Mechanochemical AccelerationOPEN ACCESS
Saskia Lamour, Sebastian Pallmann, Maren Haas and Oliver Trapp Life 2019, 9(2), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/life9020052 Published: 20 June 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (download) “Monosaccharides represent one of the major building blocks of life. One of…
The Prevailing Catalytic Role of Meteorites in Formamide Prebiotic ProcessesOPEN ACCESS
Raffaele Saladino, Lorenzo Botta and Ernesto Di Mauro Life 2018, 8(1), 6; doi:10.3390/life8010006 Review Published: 22 February 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteorites are consensually considered to be involved in the origin of…
Origin of the RNA world: The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds
Ben K. D. Pearce, Ralph E. Pudritz, Dmitry A. Semenov, and Thomas K. Henning 10.1073/pnas.1710339114 PNAS October 2, 2017 LINK “Before the origin of simple cellular life, the building blocks of RNA (nucleotides) had to…
Enantiomer excesses of rare and common sugar derivatives in carbonaceous meteorites
George Cooper and Andro C. Rios PNAS2016 ; published ahead of print May 31, 2016, doi:10.1073/pnas.1603030113 LINK “Significance The majority of biological sugars and their derivatives contain higher abundances of the “d” mirror-image forms relative…
