Exploring the Lipid World Hypothesis: A Novel Scenario of Self-Sustained Darwinian Evolution of the Liposomes

Micellar Composition Affects Lipid Accretion Kinetics in Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Support for Lipid Network Reproduction

(2022) Amit Kahana et al.   Life-Basel

Elements for the Origin of Life on Land: A Deep-Time Perspective from the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia

(2021) Martin J. Van Kranendonk et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Shielding from UV Photodamage: Implications for Surficial Origins of Life Chemistry on the Early Earth

(2021) Zoe R. Todd et al.   ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

A plausible prebiotic selection of ribose for RNA - formation, dynamic isolation, and nucleotide synthesis based on metal-doped-clays

(2021) Ze-Run Zhao et al.   Chem

UV Transmission in Natural Waters on Prebiotic Earth

(2021) Sukrit Ranjan et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Self-reproducing catalytic micelles as nanoscopic protocell precursors

(2021) Amit Kahana et al.   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Autocatalytic chemical networks at the origin of metabolism

(2020) Joana C. Xavier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Enzyme-free synthesis of natural phospholipids in water

(2020) Luping Liu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Budding and Fission of Membrane Vesicles: A Mini Review

(2020) Samo Penič et al.   Frontiers in Physics

A minimal biochemical route towards de novo formation of synthetic phospholipid membranes

(2019) Ahanjit Bhattacharya et al.   Nature Communications

Membrane Tension–Mediated Growth of Liposomes

(2019) Siddharth Deshpande et al.   Small

Nitrogen heterocycles form peptide nucleic acid precursors in complex prebiotic mixtures

(2019) Laura E. Rodriguez et al.   Scientific Reports

Adsorption of Phospholipids at the Air-Water Surface

(2019) Xuan Bai et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life

(2019) Bruce Damer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Water Structure in the Submembrane Region of a Floating Lipid Bilayer: The Effect of an Ion Channel Formation and the Channel Blocker

(2019) ZhangFei Su et al.   LANGMUIR

Mechanical Division of Cell-Sized Liposomes

(2018) Siddharth Deshpande et al.   ACS Nano

Sulfidic Anion Concentrations on Early Earth for Surficial Origins-of-Life Chemistry

(2018) Sukrit Ranjan et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

On the role of epigallocatechin-3-gallate in protecting phospholipid molecules against UV irradiation

(2018) Filipa Pires et al.   COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES

Systems protobiology: origin of life in lipid catalytic networks

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

Mechanism of Time-Dependent Adsorption for Dilauroyl Phosphatidylcholine onto a Clean Air–Water Interface from a Dispersion of Vesicles

(2018) Jennifer A. Staton et al.   LANGMUIR

Protocells and RNA Self-Replication

(2018) Gerald F. Joyce et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Bulk measurements of messy chemistries are needed for a theory of the origins of life

(2017) Nicholas Guttenberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Formation of nucleobases in a Miller–Urey reducing atmosphere

(2017) Martin Ferus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Growing Membranes In Vitro by Continuous Phospholipid Biosynthesis from Free Fatty Acids

(2017) Marten Exterkate et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Long-Term Stored Hemoglobin-Vesicles, a Cellular Type of Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carrier, Has Resuscitative Effects Comparable to That for Fresh Red Blood Cells in a Rat Model with Massive Hemorrhage without Post-Transfusion Lung Injury

(2016) Masahiro Tokuno et al.   PLoS One

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

(2016) S. Becker et al.   SCIENCE

Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water

(2016) Brian J. Cafferty et al.   Nature Communications

The RNA World as a Model System to Study the Origin of Life

(2015) Abe Pressman et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Radical Pathways for the Prebiotic Formation of Pyrimidine Bases from Formamide

(2015) Huyen Thi Nguyen et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

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

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

Self-reproducing catalyst drives repeated phospholipid synthesis and membrane growth

(2015) Michael D. Hardy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Amphiphiles Self-Assembly: Basic Concepts and Future Perspectives of Supramolecular Approaches

(2015) Domenico Lombardo et al.   Advances in Condensed Matter Physics

Paradoxes in the Origin of Life

(2015) Steven A. Benner   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

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

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

Spontaneous Encapsulation and Concentration of Biological Macromolecules in Liposomes: An Intriguing Phenomenon and Its Relevance in Origins of Life

(2014) Tereza Pereira de Souza et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

What Is Life, and Can We Create It?

(2013)   BIOSCIENCE

Langmuir monolayers as unique physical models

(2013) Juan J. Giner-Casares et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE

Phospholipids at the Interface: Current Trends and Challenges

(2013) Roman Pichot et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

The RNA world hypothesis: the worst theory of the early evolution of life (except for all the others)a

(2012) Harold S Bernhardt   Biology Direct

Thermodynamics of Phospholipid Self-Assembly

(2012) Derek Marsh   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The algorithmic origins of life

(2012) S. I. Walker et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

An optimal degree of physical and chemical heterogeneity for the origin of life?

(2011) J. W. Szostak   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Achievements and open questions in the self-reproduction of vesicles and synthetic minimal cells

(2010) Pasquale Stano et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

The Origins of the RNA World

(2010) M. P. Robertson et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Setting the Stage: The History, Chemistry, and Geobiology behind RNA

(2010) S. A. Benner et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Lipid-anchored DNA mediates vesicle fusion as observed by lipid and content mixing

(2009) Yee-Hung M. Chan et al.   Biointerphases

Ultraviolet A-Induced Peroxidation of Phosphatidylcholine in Unilamellar Liposomes

(2009) Azzedine MAZARI et al.   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Lipid-regulated sterol transfer between closely apposed membranes by oxysterol-binding protein homologues

(2009) Timothy A. Schulz et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Formation of Protocell-like Vesicles in a Thermal Diffusion Column

(2009) Itay Budin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Coupled Growth and Division of Model Protocell Membranes

(2009) Ting F. Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-Triggered Liposomal Release: Membrane Permeabilization by Photodynamic Action

(2009) Alina Pashkovskaya et al.   LANGMUIR

Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme

(2009) T. A. Lincoln et al.   SCIENCE

Nanoparticle Formation in Giant Vesicles: Synthesis in Biomimetic Compartments

(2009) Peng Yang et al.   Small

UV light induced photodegradation of liposome encapsulated fluoroquinolones: An MS study

(2008) Marianna Budai et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY

Abiogenic Hydrocarbon Production at Lost City Hydrothermal Field

(2008) G. Proskurowski et al.   SCIENCE