Functional Capabilities of the Earliest Peptides and the Emergence of Life

Iron-Sulfide-Bearing Chimneys as Potential Catalytic Energy Traps at Life's Emergence

(2011) Randall E. Mielke et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

U–Th systematics and 230Th ages of carbonate chimneys at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field

(2011) Kristin A. Ludwig et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Structural Insights into Functional and Pathological Amyloid

(2011) Frank Shewmaker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Links Between Hydrothermal Environments, Pyrophosphate, Na+, and Early Evolution

(2011) Nils G. Holm et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Simulation of the β- to α-sheet transition results in a twisted sheet for antiparallel and an α-nanotube for parallel strands: Implications for amyloid formation

(2011) Steven Hayward et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS

Closed headpiece of integrin  IIb 3 and its complex with an  IIb 3-specific antagonist that does not induce opening

(2010) J. Zhu et al.   BLOOD

Getting Past the RNA World: The Initial Darwinian Ancestor

(2010) M. Yarus   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Motivated Proteins: A web application for studying small three-dimensional protein motifs

(2009) David P Leader et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Retro-Enantio N-Methylated Peptides as β-Amyloid Aggregation Inhibitors

(2009) Dolors Grillo-Bosch et al.   ChemMedChem

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

The first peptides: The evolutionary transition between prebiotic amino acids and early proteins

(2009) Peter van der Gulik et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

Self-Propagating β-Sheet Polypeptide Structures as Prebiotic Informational Molecular Entities: The Amyloid World

(2009) C. P. J. Maury   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Mutual Effects of Cationic Ligands and Substrate on Activity of the Na+-Transporting Pyrophosphatase ofMethanosarcina mazei†

(2008) Anssi M. Malinen et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Predicting the conformations of peptides and proteins in early evolution. A review article submitted to Biology Direct

(2008) E James Milner-White et al.   Biology Direct

Amino acid containing anion receptors

(2008) Stefan Kubik   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

A Novel Main Chain Motif in Proteins Bridged by Cationic Groups: The Niche

(2008) Gilleain M. Torrance et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Characters of very ancient proteins

(2007) Bin-Guang Ma et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

The geometry of α-sheet: Implications for its possible function as amyloid precursor in proteins

(2007) Steven Hayward et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS