An Origin-of-Life Reactor to Simulate Alkaline Hydrothermal Vents

Biochemical fossils of the ancient transition from geoenergetics to bioenergetics in prokaryotic one carbon compound metabolism

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Electrochemical CO2 Reduction by Ni-containing Iron Sulfides: How Is CO2 Electrochemically Reduced at Bisulfide-Bearing Deep-sea Hydrothermal Precipitates?

(2014) Akira Yamaguchi et al.   ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA

Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria

(2014) Shijulal Nelson-Sathi et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary history of redox metal-binding domains across the tree of life

(2014) A. Harel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Energy at life's origin

(2014) W. F. Martin et al.   SCIENCE

A Bioenergetic Basis for Membrane Divergence in Archaea and Bacteria

(2014) Víctor Sojo et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Free energy conversion in the LUCA: Quo vadis?

(2013) Anne-Lise Ducluzeau et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

What caused the rise of atmospheric O2?

(2013) James F. Kasting   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life

(2013) Tom A. Williams et al.   NATURE

Discovering the electronic circuit diagram of life: structural relationships among transition metal binding sites in oxidoreductases

(2013) J. D. Kim et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Early bioenergetic evolution

(2013) F. L. Sousa et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The energetics of organic synthesis inside and outside the cell

(2013) J. P. Amend et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Escalation of polymerization in a thermal gradient

(2013) C. B. Mast et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Serpentinization, Carbon, and Deep Life

(2013) M. O. Schrenk et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Processes on the Young Earth and the Habitats of Early Life

(2012) Nicholas T. Arndt et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Energy conservation via electron bifurcating ferredoxin reduction and proton/Na+ translocating ferredoxin oxidation

(2012) Wolfgang Buckel et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics

(2012) Nick Lane et al.   CELL

An Ancient Pathway Combining Carbon Dioxide Fixation with the Generation and Utilization of a Sodium Ion Gradient for ATP Synthesis

(2012) Anja Poehlein et al.   PLoS One

Primitive Membrane Formation, Characteristics and Roles in the Emergent Properties of a Protocell

(2011) Sarah Elizabeth Maurer et al.   Entropy

Hydrogen, metals, bifurcating electrons, and proton gradients: The early evolution of biological energy conservation

(2011) William F. Martin   FEBS LETTERS

Hydrothermal formose reaction

(2011) Daniel Kopetzki et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Coupling of ferredoxin and heterodisulfide reduction via electron bifurcation in hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaea

(2011) A.-K. Kaster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Alternative Pathways of Carbon Dioxide Fixation: Insights into the Early Evolution of Life?

(2010) Georg Fuchs   Annual Review of Microbiology

How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of life

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   BIOESSAYS

Where on Earth has our water come from?

(2010) Nora H. de Leeuw et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Thermophoresis of single stranded DNA

(2010) Philipp Reineck et al.   ELECTROPHORESIS

Genome Networks Root the Tree of Life between Prokaryotic Domains

(2010) Tal Dagan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life

(2010) M. J. RUSSELL et al.   Geobiology

Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase/phosphatase may be an ancestral gluconeogenic enzyme

(2010) Rafael F. Say et al.   NATURE

The Hadean-Archaean Environment

(2010) N. H. Sleep   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

A Life with Acetogens, Thermophiles, and Cellulolytic Anaerobes

(2009) Lars G. Ljungdahl   Annual Review of Microbiology

The Origin of Life: Chemical Evolution of a Metabolic System in a Mineral Honeycomb?

(2009) Sergio Branciamore et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Hydrothermal Focusing of Chemical and Chemiosmotic Energy, Supported by Delivery of Catalytic Fe, Ni, Mo/W, Co, S and Se, Forced Life to Emerge

(2009) Wolfgang Nitschke et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Formation of Protocell-like Vesicles in a Thermal Diffusion Column

(2009) Itay Budin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Acetogenesis and the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway of CO2 fixation

(2008) Stephen W. Ragsdale et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS

Thermodynamic constraints on hydrogen generation during serpentinization of ultramafic rocks

(2008) Thomas M. McCollom et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Extraordinary 13C enrichment of diether lipids at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field indicates a carbon-limited ecosystem

(2008) Alexander S. Bradley et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Template-directed synthesis of a genetic polymer in a model protocell

(2008) Sheref S. Mansy et al.   NATURE

Methanogenic archaea: ecologically relevant differences in energy conservation

(2008) Rudolf K. Thauer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The archaebacterial origin of eukaryotes

(2008) C. J. Cox et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Abiogenic Hydrocarbon Production at Lost City Hydrothermal Field

(2008) G. Proskurowski et al.   SCIENCE

The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth

(2008) Leslie E Orgel   PLOS BIOLOGY

Characterization of synthetic nanocrystalline mackinawite: Crystal structure, particle size, and specific surface area

(2007) Hoon Y. Jeong et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA