Pathways for the formation and evolution of peptides in prebiotic environments

Evolution before genes

(2012) Vera Vasas et al.   Biology Direct

N-(2-Aminoethyl)glycine and Amino Acids from Interstellar Ice Analogues

(2012) Cornelia Meinert et al.   ChemPlusChem

Activation of carboxyl group with cyanate: peptide bond formation from dicarboxylic acids

(2011) Grégoire Danger et al.   AMINO ACIDS

Development of Micro-Flow Hydrothermal Monitoring Systems and Their Applications to the Origin of Life Study on Earth

(2011) Kunio KAWAMURA   ANALYTICAL SCIENCES

Benchmark Reaction Rates, the Stability of Biological Molecules in Water, and the Evolution of Catalytic Power in Enzymes

(2011) Richard Wolfenden   Annual Review of Biochemistry

NON-RACEMIC AMINO ACID PRODUCTION BY ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION OF ACHIRAL INTERSTELLAR ICE ANALOGS WITH CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT

(2011) Pierre de Marcellus et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

β-Sheet-Induced Chirogenesis in Polymerization of Oligopeptides

(2011) Nathaniel Wagner et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Autocatalyses

(2011) Raphaël Plasson et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Peptide Synthesis in Aqueous Environments: The Role of Extreme Conditions and Pyrite Mineral Surfaces on Formation and Hydrolysis of Peptides

(2011) Eduard Schreiner et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reactivity of Alanylalanine Diastereoisomers in Neutral and Acid Aqueous Solutions: a Versatile Stereoselectivity

(2011) Raphaël Plasson et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Energy flows, metabolism and translation

(2011) R. Pascal et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An Experimental Investigation of the Evolution of Chirality in a Potential Dynamic Peptide System: N-Terminal Epimerization and Degradation into Diketopiperazine

(2010) Grégoire Danger et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Catalytic peptide hydrolysis by mineral surface: Implications for prebiotic chemistry

(2010) Karina Marshall-Bowman et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Energy Sources, Self-organization, and the Origin of Life

(2010) Laurent Boiteau et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

High molecular diversity of extraterrestrial organic matter in Murchison meteorite revealed 40 years after its fall

(2010) P. Schmitt-Kopplin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Organic Composition of Carbonaceous Meteorites: The Evolutionary Story Ahead of Biochemistry

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

Effect of condensation agents and minerals for oligopeptide formation under mild and hydrothermal conditions in related to chemical evolution of proteins

(2009) Kunio Kawamura et al.   ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

Self-Replicating Amphiphilic β-Sheet Peptides

(2009) Boris Rubinov et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Uracil-Catalyzed Synthesis of Acetyl Phosphate: A Photochemical Driver for Protometabolism

(2009) William J. Hagan   CHEMBIOCHEM

Energetic and Entropic Analysis of Mirror Symmetry Breaking Processes in a Recycled Microreversible Chemical System

(2009) Raphaël Plasson et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

(2009) Matthew W. Powner et al.   NATURE

Toward Homochiral Protocells in Noncatalytic Peptide Systems

(2009) Marcelo Gleiser et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Dual Role of Hydrophobic Racemic Thioesters of α-Amino Acids in the Generation of Isotactic Peptides and Co-peptides in Water; Implications for the Origin of Homochirality

(2009) Roni A. Illos et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Homochirality and the Need for Energy

(2009) Raphaël Plasson et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Complete Deracemization by Attrition-Enhanced Ostwald Ripening Elucidated

(2008) Wim L. Noorduin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Systems Chemistry: Logic Gates, Arithmetic Units, and Network Motifs in Small Networks

(2008) Nathaniel Wagner et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Peptide Synthesis in Aqueous Environments: The Role of Extreme Conditions on Amino Acid Activation

(2008) Nisanth N. Nair et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

An Evaluation of the Critical Parameters for Abiotic Peptide Synthesis in Submarine Hydrothermal Systems

(2008) H. J. Cleaves et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Adsorption and Polymerization of Amino Acids on Mineral Surfaces: A Review

(2008) Jean-François Lambert   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

A Reassessment of Prebiotic Organic Synthesis in Neutral Planetary Atmospheres

(2008) H. James Cleaves et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

The Role of Submarine Hydrothermal Systems in the Synthesis of Amino Acids

(2008) A. D. Aubrey et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES