On an Early Gene for Membrane-Integral Inorganic Pyrophosphatase in the Genome of an Apparently Pre-LUCA Extremophile, the Archaeon Candidatus Korarchaeum cryptofilum

Membrane Na+-pyrophosphatases Can Transport Protons at Low Sodium Concentrations

(2013) Heidi H. Luoto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Pyrophosphate-Fueled Na+ and H+ Transport in Prokaryotes

(2013) A. A. Baykov et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Evolution of a designed retro-aldolase leads to complete active site remodeling

(2013) Lars Giger et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Elementary tetrahelical protein design for diverse oxidoreductase functions

(2013) Tammer A Farid et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Membrane-integral pyrophosphatase subfamily capable of translocating both Na+and H+

(2013) Heidi H. Luoto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the universal core of bioenergetics

(2012) Barbara Schoepp-Cothenet et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Turnstiles and bifurcators: The disequilibrium converting engines that put metabolism on the road

(2012) Elbert Branscomb et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics

(2012) Nick Lane et al.   CELL

Crystal structure of a membrane-embedded H+-translocating pyrophosphatase

(2012) Shih-Ming Lin et al.   NATURE

The Structure and Catalytic Cycle of a Sodium-Pumping Pyrophosphatase

(2012) J. Kellosalo et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) Heidi H. Luoto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

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

(2011) Nils G. Holm et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Functional Capabilities of the Earliest Peptides and the Emergence of Life

(2011) E. James Milner-White et al.   Genes

How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of life

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   BIOESSAYS

Pyrophosphate as a central energy carrier in the hydrogen-producing extremely thermophilic Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus

(2010) Abraham A.M. Bielen et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Ongoing and future developments at the Universal Protein Resource

(2010)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Hydrothermal Focusing of Chemical and Chemiosmotic Energy, Supported by Delivery of Catalytic Fe, Ni, Mo/W, Co, S and Se, Forced Life to Emerge

(2009) Wolfgang Nitschke et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Evolutionary primacy of sodium bioenergetics

(2008) Armen Y Mulkidjanian et al.   Biology Direct

A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea

(2008) J. G. Elkins et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA