Autocatalytic chemical networks at the origin of metabolism

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

Catalysts, autocatalysis and the origin of metabolism

(2019) Martina Preiner et al.   Interface Focus

Deep-biosphere methane production stimulated by geofluids in the Nankai accretionary complex

(2018) Akira Ijiri et al.   Science Advances

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

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

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

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

Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life’s early evolution and eukaryote origin

(2018) Holly C. Betts et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

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

(2017) Takayuki Tashiro et al.   NATURE

Mechanism and Catalytic Site Atlas (M-CSA): a database of enzyme reaction mechanisms and active sites

(2017) António J M Ribeiro et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

(2016) Woodward W. Fischer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Electron Bifurcation: A Long-Hidden Energy-Coupling Mechanism

(2016) Volker Müller et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Metals in Biology 2016: Molecular Basis of Selection of Metals by Enzymes

(2016) F. Peter Guengerich   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Autocatalytic, bistable, oscillatory networks of biologically relevant organic reactions

(2016) Sergey N. Semenov et al.   NATURE

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 widespread role of non-enzymatic reactions in cellular metabolism

(2015) Markus A Keller et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Unusual non-enzymatic flavin catalysis enhances understanding of flavoenzymes

(2015) Erick A. Argueta et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism

(2015) Bhavesh H. Patel et al.   Nature Chemistry

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

A genome-guided analysis of energy conservation in the thermophilic, cytochrome-free acetogenic bacterium Thermoanaerobacter kivui

(2015) Verena Hess et al.   BMC GENOMICS

fastGapFill: efficient gap filling in metabolic networks

(2014) Ines Thiele et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Non-enzymatic glycolysis and pentose phosphate pathway-like reactions in a plausible Archean ocean

(2014) M. A. Keller et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Widespread and Enzyme-independentNϵ-Acetylation andNϵ-Succinylation of Proteins in the Chemical Conditions of the Mitochondrial Matrix

(2013) Gregory R. Wagner et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The Structure of Autocatalytic Sets: Evolvability, Enablement, and Emergence

(2012) Wim Hordijk et al.   ACTA BIOTHEORETICA

Organometallic Ruthenium and Iridium Transfer-Hydrogenation Catalysts Using Coenzyme NADH as a Cofactor

(2012) Soledad Betanzos-Lara et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Spontaneous network formation among cooperative RNA replicators

(2012) Nilesh Vaidya et al.   NATURE

Required Levels of Catalysis for Emergence of Autocatalytic Sets in Models of Chemical Reaction Systems

(2011) Wim Hordijk et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Complete genome sequence of Methanothermus fervidus type strain (V24ST)

(2011) Iain Anderson et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

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

(2010) Georg Fuchs   Annual Review of Microbiology

Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life

(2010) Wim Hordijk et al.   Entropy

Impact of temperature on the time required for the establishment of primordial biochemistry, and for the evolution of enzymes

(2010) R. B. Stockbridge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2009) Susan Q. Lang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth

(2008) Leslie E Orgel   PLOS BIOLOGY

Computational identification of obligatorily autocatalytic replicators embedded in metabolic networks

(2008) Ádám Kun et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY