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Carbon–Metal Bonds: Rare and Primordial in Metabolism

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Origin of Short-Chain Organic Acids in Serpentinite Mud Volcanoes of the Mariana Convergent Margin

(2019) Philip Eickenbusch et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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Possible mechanisms of CO 2 reduction by H 2 via prebiotic vectorial electrochemistry

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Isoprenoids enhance the stability of fatty acid membranes at the emergence of life potentially leading to an early lipid divide

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(2019) Sean F. Jordan et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Flavin-Based Electron Bifurcation, Ferredoxin, Flavodoxin, and Anaerobic Respiration With Protons (Ech) or NAD+ (Rnf) as Electron Acceptors: A Historical Review

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

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

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

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Spent Tea Leaf Templating of Cobalt-Based Mixed Oxide Nanocrystals for Water Oxidation

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Electron Bifurcation: A Long-Hidden Energy-Coupling Mechanism

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(2016) Thomas M. McCollom   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Methane production from coal by a single methanogen

(2016) D. Mayumi et al.   SCIENCE

The methanogenic CO2 reducing-and-fixing enzyme is bifunctional and contains 46 [4Fe-4S] clusters

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The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

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Bio-inspired CO2 conversion by iron sulfide catalysts under sustainable conditions

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Mackinawite and greigite in ancient alkaline hydrothermal chimneys: Identifying potential key catalysts for emergent life

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Pathways for abiotic organic synthesis at submarine hydrothermal fields

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Isolation of Acetogenic Bacteria That Induce Biocorrosion by Utilizing Metallic Iron as the Sole Electron Donor

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

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Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase: The Next Stage

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Abiotic Gas: Atypical, But Not Rare

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Hydrothermal altered serpentinized zone and a study of Ni-magnesioferrite–magnetite–awaruite occurrences in Wadi Hibi, Northern Oman Mountain: Discrimination through ASTER mapping

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Serpentinites, Hydrogen, and Life

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Serpentinization, Carbon, and Deep Life

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

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Carbon dioxide concentration dictates alternative methanogenic pathways in oil reservoirs

(2013) Daisuke Mayumi et al.   Nature Communications

Processes on the Young Earth and the Habitats of Early Life

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The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics

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Serpentinite and the dawn of life

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

(2010) Georg Fuchs   Annual Review of Microbiology

Gibbs energies of reaction and microbial mutualism in anaerobic deep subseafloor sediments of ODP Site 1226

(2010) Guizhi Wang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

A Mild Hydrothermal Route to Fix Carbon Dioxide to Simple Carboxylic Acids

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High molecular diversity of extraterrestrial organic matter in Murchison meteorite revealed 40 years after its fall

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Elevated concentrations of formate, acetate and dissolved organic carbon found at the Lost City hydrothermal field

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On the Free Energy That Drove Primordial Anabolism

(2009) Michael Kaufmann   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

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