The fats of the matter: Lipids in prebiotic chemistry and in origin of life studies

Exploring the Lipid World Hypothesis: A Novel Scenario of Self-Sustained Darwinian Evolution of the Liposomes

(2023) Vladimir Subbotin et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Synthesis of Phospholipids Under Plausible Prebiotic Conditions and Analogies with Phospholipid Biochemistry for Origin of Life Studies

(2022) Michele Fiore et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Membrane thickness, lipid phase and sterol type are determining factors in the permeability of membranes to small solutes

(2022) Jacopo Frallicciardi et al.   Nature Communications

Micellar Composition Affects Lipid Accretion Kinetics in Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Support for Lipid Network Reproduction

(2022) Amit Kahana et al.   Life-Basel

Plausible Sources of Membrane-Forming Fatty Acids on the Early Earth: A Review of the Literature and an Estimation of Amounts

(2022) Zachary R. Cohen et al.   ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

The fine‐tuning of cell membrane lipid bilayers accentuates their compositional complexity

(2021) Tamir Dingjan et al.   BIOESSAYS

Chiral lipid bilayers are enantioselectively permeable

(2021) Juan Hu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Canonical and 1-Deoxy(methyl) Sphingoid Bases: Tackling the Effect of the Lipid Structure on Membrane Biophysical Properties

(2020) Tania C.B. Santos et al.   LANGMUIR

Plasma membranes are asymmetric in lipid unsaturation, packing and protein shape

(2020) J. H. Lorent et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Compositional heterogeneity confers selective advantage to model protocellular membranes during the origins of cellular life

(2020) Susovan Sarkar et al.   Scientific Reports

The Mechanism of Vesicle Solubilization by the Detergent Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate

(2020) José Juan-Colás et al.   LANGMUIR

Enzyme-free synthesis of natural phospholipids in water

(2020) Luping Liu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Cyclophospholipids Increase Protocellular Stability to Metal Ions

(2019) Ö. Duhan Toparlak et al.   Small

The Structure and Function of Acylglycerophosphate Acyltransferase 4/ Lysophosphatidic Acid Acyltransferase Delta (AGPAT4/LPAATδ)

(2019) Mikhail A. Zhukovsky et al.   Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Hydrothermal Chemistry and the Origin of Cellular Life

(2019) David Deamer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Life's Biological Chemistry: A Destiny or Destination Starting from Prebiotic Chemistry?

(2018) Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Constraining the climate and ocean pH of the early Earth with a geological carbon cycle model

(2018) Joshua Krissansen-Totton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fatty Acid/Phospholipid Blended Membranes: A Potential Intermediate State in Protocellular Evolution

(2018) Lin Jin et al.   Small

Meteoritic Abundances of Fatty Acids and Potential Reaction Pathways in Planetesimals

(2018) James C.-Y. Lai et al.   ICARUS

Systems protobiology: origin of life in lipid catalytic networks

(2018) Doron Lancet et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Prebiotic chemistry and human intervention

(2018) Clemens Richert   Nature Communications

Impacts of Salt, Buffer, and Lipid Nature on Molecular Adsorption and Transport in Liposomes As Observed by Second Harmonic Generation

(2017) Raju R. Kumal et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Phosphorylation, oligomerization and self-assembly in water under potential prebiotic conditions

(2017) Clémentine Gibard et al.   Nature Chemistry

A two-helix motif positions the lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase active site for catalysis within the membrane bilayer

(2017) Rosanna M Robertson et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Reconstructed ancestral enzymes suggest long-term cooling of Earth’s photic zone since the Archean

(2017) Amanda K. Garcia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The geologic history of seawater pH

(2017) I. Halevy et al.   SCIENCE

Structural determinants and functional consequences of protein affinity for membrane rafts

(2017) Joseph H. Lorent et al.   Nature Communications

A two-helix motif positions the lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase active site for catalysis within the membrane bilayer

(2017) Rosanna M Robertson et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Permeability-driven selection in a semi-empirical protocell model: the roots of prebiotic systems evolution

(2017) Gabriel Piedrafita et al.   Scientific Reports

Effect of fatty acids on the permeability barrier of model and biological membranes

(2016) Ahmad Arouri et al.   CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF LIPIDS

Transformation from Globular to Cylindrical Mixed Micelles through Molecular Exchange that Induces Micelle Fusion

(2016) Grethe V. Jensen et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Self-assembly behaviours of primitive and modern lipid membrane solutions: a coarse-grained molecular simulation study

(2016) Noriyoshi Arai et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Primordial evolvability: Impasses and challenges

(2015) Vera Vasas et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Lipid Cooperativity as a General Membrane-Recruitment Principle for PH Domains

(2015) Ivana Vonkova et al.   Cell Reports

One-Pot Synthesis of Au@SiO2 Catalysts: A Click Chemistry Approach

(2014) Vera A. Solovyeva et al.   ACS Combinatorial Science

Permeation of Aldopentoses and Nucleosides Through Fatty Acid and Phospholipid Membranes: Implications to the Origins of Life

(2013) Chenyu Wei et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Spontaneous Transition of Micelle–Vesicle–Micelle in a Mixture of Cationic Surfactant and Anionic Surfactant-like Ionic Liquid: A Pure Nonlipid Small Unilamellar Vesicular Template Used for Solvent and Rotational Relaxation Study

(2013) Surajit Ghosh et al.   LANGMUIR

Excess Mutual Catalysis Is Required for Effective Evolvability

(2012) Omer Markovitch et al.   ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Lipids, curvature, and nano-medicine

(2011) Ole G. Mouritsen   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LIPID SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cholesterol Effect on Water Permeability through DPPC and PSM Lipid Bilayers: A Molecular Dynamics Study

(2011) Hiroaki Saito et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Physical effects underlying the transition from primitive to modern cell membranes

(2011) I. Budin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Computer simulations of micelle fission

(2010) Juanjuan Gao et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Lack of evolvability in self-sustaining autocatalytic networks constraints metabolism-first scenarios for the origin of life

(2010) V. Vasas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Temperature Dependence of Lipid Membrane Permeability, its Quantized Nature, and the Influence of Anesthetics

(2009) Andreas Blicher et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Coupled Growth and Division of Model Protocell Membranes

(2009) Ting F. Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Micelle Fission through Surface Instability and Formation of an Interdigitating Stalk

(2008) Maria Sammalkorpi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Template-directed synthesis of a genetic polymer in a model protocell

(2008) Sheref S. Mansy et al.   NATURE

Compositional Inheritance: Comparison of Self-assembly and Catalysis

(2008) Meng Wu et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Thermostability of model protocell membranes

(2008) S. S. Mansy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA