Iron catalysis at the origin of life

Sulfate radicals enable a non-enzymatic Krebs cycle precursor

(2017) Markus A. Keller et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Origin of Life in Alkaline Hydrothermal Vents

(2016) Victor Sojo et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Surface and shape modification of mackinawite (FeS) nanocrystals by cysteine adsorption: a first-principles DFT-D2 study

(2016) N. Y. Dzade et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

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

From Chemical Gardens to Fuel Cells: Generation of Electrical Potential and Current Across Self-Assembling Iron Mineral Membranes

(2015) Laura M. Barge et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Alpha-Oxo Acids Assisted Transformation of FeS to Fe3S4 at Low Temperature: Implications for Abiotic, Biotic, and Prebiotic Mineralization

(2015) Wei Wang et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

(2015) A. Roldan et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Activation and dissociation of CO2 on the (001), (011), and (111) surfaces of mackinawite (FeS): A dispersion-corrected DFT study

(2015) N. Y. Dzade et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

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

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

The Drive to Life on Wet and Icy Worlds

(2014) Michael J. Russell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

(2014) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Electrochemical CO2 Reduction by Ni-containing Iron Sulfides: How Is CO2 Electrochemically Reduced at Bisulfide-Bearing Deep-sea Hydrothermal Precipitates?

(2014) Akira Yamaguchi et al.   ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA

An Origin-of-Life Reactor to Simulate Alkaline Hydrothermal Vents

(2014) Barry Herschy et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The origin of methanethiol in midocean ridge hydrothermal fluids

(2014) E. P. Reeves et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Energy at life's origin

(2014) W. F. Martin et al.   SCIENCE

A Bioenergetic Basis for Membrane Divergence in Archaea and Bacteria

(2014) Víctor Sojo et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Early bioenergetic evolution

(2013) F. L. Sousa et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Processes on the Young Earth and the Habitats of Early Life

(2012) Nicholas T. Arndt et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Energy conservation via electron bifurcating ferredoxin reduction and proton/Na+ translocating ferredoxin oxidation

(2012) Wolfgang Buckel et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics

(2012) Nick Lane et al.   CELL

The oxidation state of Hadean magmas and implications for early Earth’s atmosphere

(2011) Dustin Trail et al.   NATURE

Coupling of ferredoxin and heterodisulfide reduction via electron bifurcation in hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaea

(2011) A.-K. Kaster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Electrical Current Generation across a Black Smoker Chimney

(2010) Ryuhei Nakamura et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

(2010) Georg Fuchs   Annual Review of Microbiology

Methanogenic archaea: ecologically relevant differences in energy conservation

(2008) Rudolf K. Thauer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth

(2008) Leslie E Orgel   PLOS BIOLOGY