The significance of Mg in prebiotic geochemistry

Na+-translocating Membrane Pyrophosphatases Are Widespread in the Microbial World and Evolutionarily Precede H+-translocating Pyrophosphatases

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Links Between Hydrothermal Environments, Pyrophosphate, Na+, and Early Evolution

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Borate Minerals and Origin of the RNA World

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The Effects of Borate Minerals on the Synthesis of Nucleic Acid Bases, Amino Acids and Biogenic Carboxylic Acids from Formamide

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Early Archean serpentine mud volcanoes at Isua, Greenland, as a niche for early life

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Magnesium-Dependent Active-Site Conformational Selection in the Diels−Alderase Ribozyme

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Bidentate RNA-magnesium clamps: On the origin of the special role of magnesium in RNA folding

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The Hadean Crust: Evidence from >4 Ga Zircons

(2009) T. Mark Harrison   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Microbial diversity of boron-rich volcanic hot springs of  St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles

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Reduction of nitrogen compounds in oceanic basement and its implications for HCN formation and abiotic organic synthesis

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An experimental investigation into the metastable formation of phosphoran olivine and pyroxene

(2009) Joseph S. Boesenberg et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Catalytic condensation of glycolaldehyde and glyceraldehyde with formaldehyde in neutral and weakly alkaline aqueous media: Kinetics and mechanism

(2009) I. V. Delidovich et al.   KINETICS AND CATALYSIS

Peeling the Onion: Ribosomes Are Ancient Molecular Fossils

(2009) C. Hsiao et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Heterogeneous radiolysis of HCN adsorbed on a solid surface

(2009) M. Colín-García et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

A recurrent magnesium-binding motif provides a framework for the ribosomal peptidyl transferase center

(2009) Chiaolong Hsiao et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Mineral evolution

(2008) R. M. Hazen et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Production of Potentially Prebiotic Condensed Phosphates by Phosphorus Redox Chemistry

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Mutual Effects of Cationic Ligands and Substrate on Activity of the Na+-Transporting Pyrophosphatase ofMethanosarcina mazei†

(2008) Anssi M. Malinen et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Evolutionary primacy of sodium bioenergetics

(2008) Armen Y Mulkidjanian et al.   Biology Direct

Carbon geochemistry of serpentinites in the Lost City Hydrothermal System (30°N, MAR)

(2008) Adélie Delacour et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Interactions of d-ribose with polyatomic anions, and alkaline and alkaline-earth cations: possible clues to environmental synthesis conditions in the pre-RNA world

(2008) Ana F. Amaral et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Thermodynamic Potential for the Abiotic Synthesis of Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine, Uracil, Ribose, and Deoxyribose in Hydrothermal Systems

(2008) Douglas E. LaRowe et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Rethinking early Earth phosphorus geochemistry

(2008) M. A. Pasek   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA