Catalysts, autocatalysis and the origin of metabolism

Energy conservation by a hydrogenase-dependent chemiosmotic mechanism in an ancient metabolic pathway

(2019) Marie Charlotte Schoelmerich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Autocatalytic networks in biology: structural theory and algorithms

(2019) Mike Steel et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Synthesis and breakdown of universal metabolic precursors promoted by iron

(2019) Kamila B. Muchowska et al.   NATURE

Carbon–Metal Bonds: Rare and Primordial in Metabolism

(2019) William F. Martin   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

Native metals, electron bifurcation, and CO 2 reduction in early biochemical evolution

(2018) Filipa L Sousa et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Most ancient evidence for life in the Barberton greenstone belt: Microbial mats and biofabrics of the ∼3.47 Ga Middle Marker horizon

(2018) Keyron Hickman-Lewis et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Native iron reduces CO2 to intermediates and end-products of the acetyl-CoA pathway

(2018) Sreejith J. Varma et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Geological and Geochemical Constraints on the Origin and Evolution of Life

(2018) Norman H. Sleep   ASTROBIOLOGY

Something special about CO-dependent CO2 fixation

(2018) Joana C. Xavier et al.   FEBS Journal

The last universal common ancestor between ancient Earth chemistry and the onset of genetics

(2018) Madeline C. Weiss et al.   PLoS Genetics

The rocky road to biomolecules

(2018) John A. Baross   NATURE

Abiotic synthesis of amino acids in the recesses of the oceanic lithosphere

(2018) Bénédicte Ménez et al.   NATURE

Iron catalysis at the origin of life

(2017) Eloi Camprubi et al.   IUBMB LIFE

Early trace of life from 3.95 Ga sedimentary rocks in Labrador, Canada

(2017) Takayuki Tashiro et al.   NATURE

Electron bifurcation

(2016) John W Peters et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

The evolution of Earth's biogeochemical nitrogen cycle

(2016) Eva E. Stüeken et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Catalytic reduction of CO2 by H2 for synthesis of CO, methanol and hydrocarbons: challenges and opportunities

(2016) Marc D. Porosoff et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

On the Origin of Heterotrophy

(2016) Peter Schönheit et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

(2016) Madeline C. Weiss et al.   Nature Microbiology

The Ribofilm as a Concept for Life’s Origins

(2015) John A. Baross et al.   CELL

A review of the existing and alternative methods for greener nitrogen fixation

(2015) N. Cherkasov et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND PROCESSING

Pathways for abiotic organic synthesis at submarine hydrothermal fields

(2015) Jill M. McDermott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2014) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase: The Next Stage

(2014) Brian M. Hoffman et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Physiological and isotopic characteristics of nitrogen fixation by hyperthermophilic methanogens: Key insights into nitrogen anabolism of the microbial communities in Archean hydrothermal systems

(2014) Manabu Nishizawa et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Low-temperature catalytic CO2hydrogenation with geological quantities of ruthenium: a possible abiotic CH4source in chromitite-rich serpentinized rocks

(2014) G. Etiope et al.   GEOFLUIDS

Nitrogenase: A Draft Mechanism

(2013) Brian M. Hoffman et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

The Haber-Bosch Process Revisited: On the Real Structure and Stability of “Ammonia Iron” under Working Conditions

(2013) Timur Kandemir et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Frontiers, Opportunities, and Challenges in Biochemical and Chemical Catalysis of CO2 Fixation

(2013) Aaron M. Appel et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Serpentinites, Hydrogen, and Life

(2013) T. M. McCollom et al.   Elements

Early bioenergetic evolution

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

The marine nitrogen cycle: recent discoveries, uncertainties and the potential relevance of climate change

(2013) M. Voss et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Serpentinization, Carbon, and Deep Life

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

Direct and Reversible Hydrogenation of CO2 to Formate by a Bacterial Carbon Dioxide Reductase

(2013) K. Schuchmann et al.   SCIENCE

Multiple levels of meaning in DNA sequences, and one more

(2012) Edward N. Trifonov et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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

Sulfur metabolism in archaea reveals novel processes

(2012) Yuchen Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Benchmark Reaction Rates, the Stability of Biological Molecules in Water, and the Evolution of Catalytic Power in Enzymes

(2011) Richard Wolfenden   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Ecological Aspects of the Distribution of Different Autotrophic CO2Fixation Pathways

(2011) Ivan A. Berg   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Hydrogenases and the Global H2 Cycle

(2011) Rudolf Kurt Thauer   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

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

(2011) William F. Martin   FEBS LETTERS

Hydrogenases from Methanogenic Archaea, Nickel, a Novel Cofactor, and H2Storage

(2010) Rudolf K. Thauer et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

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

(2010) Georg Fuchs   Annual Review of Microbiology

Fe-Ni-Co-O-S Phase Relations in Peridotite-Seawater Interactions

(2009) F. Klein et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

One RNA plays three roles to provide catalytic activity to a group I intron lacking an endogenous internal guide sequence

(2009) Nilesh Vaidya et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Abiotic ammonium formation in the presence of Ni-Fe metals and alloys and its implications for the Hadean nitrogen cycle

(2008) Alexander Smirnov et al.   GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS

Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

(2008) William Martin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Methanogenic archaea: ecologically relevant differences in energy conservation

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

Rethinking early Earth phosphorus geochemistry

(2008) M. A. Pasek   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA