Redox Biochemistry of the Genetic Code

Cysteine, glutathione and a new genetic code: biochemical adaptations of the primordial cells to spread into the open water and survive biospheric oxygenation

(2019) Bernd Moosmann et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Reduced alphabet of prebiotic amino acids optimally encodes the conformational space of diverse extant protein folds

(2019) Armando D. Solis   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Adaptive Properties of the Genetically Encoded Amino Acid Alphabet Are Inherited from Its Subsets

(2019) Melissa Ilardo et al.   Scientific Reports

Living with Oxygen

(2018) Harry B. Gray et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Comprehensive reduction of amino acid set in a protein suggests the importance of prebiotic amino acids for stable proteins

(2018) Rei Shibue et al.   Scientific Reports

Early Archean origin of Photosystem II

(2018) Tanai Cardona et al.   Geobiology

Modern diversification of the amino acid repertoire driven by oxygen

(2017) Matthias Granold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The lost language of the RNA World

(2017) James W. Nelson et al.   Science Signaling

The lost language of the RNA World

(2017) James W. Nelson et al.   Science Signaling

Protein-borne methionine residues as structural antioxidants in mitochondria

(2015) Mario Schindeldecker et al.   AMINO ACIDS

Pathways of Genetic Code Evolution in Ancient and Modern Organisms

(2015) Supratim Sengupta et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Hole hopping through tyrosine/tryptophan chains protects proteins from oxidative damage

(2015) Harry B. Gray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why Selenocysteine Replaces Cysteine in Thioredoxin Reductase: A Radical Hypothesis

(2014) Thomas Nauser et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Designing antioxidant peptides

(2014) Barbara S. Berlett et al.   REDOX REPORT

Simplified protein design biased for prebiotic amino acids yields a foldable, halophilic protein

(2013) L. M. Longo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Protein design at the interface of the pre-biotic and biotic worlds

(2012) Liam M. Longo et al.   ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

Differential cysteine depletion in respiratory chain complexes enables the distinction of longevity from aerobicity

(2011) Mario Schindeldecker et al.   MECHANISMS OF AGEING AND DEVELOPMENT

The origin of the genetic code and of the earliest oligopeptides

(2009) Edward N. Trifonov   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Adaptive antioxidant methionine accumulation in respiratory chain complexes explains the use of a deviant genetic code in mitochondria

(2008) A. Bender et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA