Symmetry Breaking of Phospholipids

Deracemization Enabled by Visible-Light Photocatalysis

(2020) Qinglong Shi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Archean atmosphere

(2020) David C. Catling et al.   Science Advances

Racemic Phospholipids for Origin of Life Studies

(2020) Emiliano Altamura et al.   Symmetry-Basel

Length-Selective Synthesis of Acylglycerol-Phosphates through Energy-Dissipative Cycling

(2019) Claudia Bonfio et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Hydrogen sulfide, reactive sulfur species and coping with reactive oxygen species

(2019) Kenneth R. Olson   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Prebiotic phosphorylation of 2-thiouridine provides either nucleotides or DNA building blocks via photoreduction

(2019) Jianfeng Xu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Prebiotic Protocell Model Based on Dynamic Protein Membranes Accommodating Anabolic Reactions

(2019) Andreas Schreiber et al.   LANGMUIR

Cyclophospholipids Increase Protocellular Stability to Metal Ions

(2019) Ö. Duhan Toparlak et al.   Small

Thermodynamics of Prebiotic Phosphorylation

(2019) Matthew A. Pasek   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Unified prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine and purine RNA ribonucleotides

(2019) Sidney Becker et al.   SCIENCE

Promotion of protocell self-assembly from mixed amphiphiles at the origin of life

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

Evolutionary advantage of directional symmetry breaking in self-replicating polymers

(2018) Hemachander Subramanian et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Systems protobiology: origin of life in lipid catalytic networks

(2018) Doron Lancet et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Interdependence, Reflexivity, Fidelity, Impedance Matching, and the Evolution of Genetic Coding

(2017) Charles W Carter et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phosphorylation, oligomerization and self-assembly in water under potential prebiotic conditions

(2017) Clémentine Gibard et al.   Nature Chemistry

Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

(2017) Laura Eme et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Highly oriented photosynthetic reaction centers generate a proton gradient in synthetic protocells

(2017) Emiliano Altamura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Crude phosphorylation mixtures containing racemic lipid amphiphiles self-assemble to give stable primitive compartments

(2017) Dimitri Fayolle et al.   Scientific Reports

Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: Complexity Overcoming Clutter

(2017) Saidul Islam et al.   Chem

Bringing Prebiotic Nucleosides and Nucleotides Down to Earth

(2016) Michele Fiore et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Darwin's Warm Little Pond: A One-Pot Reaction for Prebiotic Phosphorylation and the Mobilization of Phosphate from Minerals in a Urea-Based Solvent

(2016) Bradley Burcar et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A high-yielding, strictly regioselective prebiotic purine nucleoside formation pathway

(2016) S. Becker et al.   SCIENCE

Horizontal Gene Transfer and the History of Life

(2016) Vincent Daubin et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Birth of Archaeal Cells: Molecular Phylogenetic Analyses of G1P Dehydrogenase, G3P Dehydrogenases, and Glycerol Kinase Suggest Derived Features of Archaeal Membranes Having G1P Polar Lipids

(2016) Shin-ichi Yokobori et al.   ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

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

The Origin of Life-Out of the Blue

(2015) John D. Sutherland   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Lipid Chirality Revisited: A Change in Lipid Configuration Transforms Membrane-Bound Protein Domains

(2015) Frederic Eghiaian   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Archaea

(2015) Laura Eme et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Structure and Evolution of the Archaeal Lipid Synthesis Enzymesn-Glycerol-1-phosphate Dehydrogenase

(2015) Vincenzo Carbone et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(2015) Anja Spang et al.   NATURE

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

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

Exploring microbial dark matter to resolve the deep archaeal ancestry of eukaryotes

(2015) Jimmy H. Saw et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular Chirality in Meteorites and Interstellar Ices, and the Chirality Experiment on Board the ESA Cometary Rosetta Mission

(2014) Iuliia Myrgorodska et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Plausible Simultaneous Synthesis of Amino Acids and Simple Peptides on the Primordial Earth

(2014) Eric T. Parker et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

High-speed atomic force microscopy: Imaging and force spectroscopy

(2014) Frédéric Eghiaian et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Selecting complex behaviour

(2014) Andrew J. Bissette et al.   Nature Chemistry

Self-assembly of fatty acids: from foams to protocell vesicles

(2014) Jean-Paul Douliez et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Photonenergy-Controlled Symmetry Breaking with Circularly Polarized Light

(2013) Cornelia Meinert et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: New Perspectives for the Origins of Life

(2013) Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

The Deep Roots of the Rings of Life

(2013) James A. Lake et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

(2013) Tom A. Williams et al.   NATURE

Prebiotic chemistry in eutectic solutions at the water–ice matrix

(2012) César Menor-Salván et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Out of fuzzy chemistry: from prebiotic chemistry to metabolic networks

(2012) Juli Peretó   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

The early evolution of lipid membranes and the three domains of life

(2012) Jonathan Lombard et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Coupling of the fusion and budding of giant phospholipid vesicles containing macromolecules

(2012) H. Terasawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Peptide–nucleotide microdroplets as a step towards a membrane-free protocell model

(2011) Shogo Koga et al.   Nature Chemistry

The archaeal ‘TACK’ superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes

(2011) Lionel Guy et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Resolving the enigma of prebiotic COP bond formation: Prebiotic hydrothermal synthesis of important biological phosphate esters

(2010) Gull Maheen et al.   HETEROATOM CHEMISTRY

The Origin of Biological Homochirality

(2010) D. G. Blackmond   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Systems chemistry on early Earth

(2009) Jack W. Szostak   NATURE

The Road to Non-Enzymatic Molecular Networks

(2008) Zehavit Dadon et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Last Universal Common Ancestor: emergence, constitution and genetic legacy of an elusive forerunner

(2008) Nicolas Glansdorff et al.   Biology Direct

The Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment

(2008) A. P. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE