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SCIENCE ADVANCES
卷 5, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav7848
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- JSPS KAKENHI [16H04074, 16K13906, 17H06105, 18H04456, 18H05328]
- Astrobiology Center Program of NINS [AB292004]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18H04456, 16H04074, 16K13906, 18H05328] Funding Source: KAKEN
One of the most plausible scenarios of the origin of life assumes the preceding prebiotic autotrophic metabolism in sulfide-rich hydrothermal vent environments. However, geochemical mechanisms to harness the reductive power provided by hydrothermal systems remain to be elucidated. Here, we show that, under a geoelectrochemical condition realizable in the early ocean hydrothermal systems, several metal sulfides (FeS, Ag2S, CuS, and PbS) undergo hour-to day-scale conversion to the corresponding metals at <=-0.7 V (versus the standard hydrogen electrode). The electrochemically produced FeS-Fe-0 assemblage promoted various reactions including certain steps in the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle with efficiencies far superior to those due to pure FeS. The threshold potential is readily generated in the H-2-rich alkaline hydrothermal systems that were probably ubiquitous on the Hadean seafloor. Thus, widespread metal production and metal-sustained primordial metabolism were likely to occur as a natural consequence of the active hydrothermal processes on the Hadean Earth.
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