Iron-Sulfide-Bearing Chimneys as Potential Catalytic Energy Traps at Life's Emergence

Redox bifurcations: Mechanisms and importance to life now, and at its origin

(2011) Wolfgang Nitschke et al.   BIOESSAYS

Viability of pyrite pulled metabolism in the ‘iron-sulfur world’ theory: Quantum chemical assessment

(2011) Andrea Michalkova et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

A salt-water reservoir as the source of a compositionally stratified plume on Enceladus

(2011) F. Postberg et al.   NATURE

Magnetic ordering in tetragonal FeS: Evidence for strong itinerant spin fluctuations

(2011) Kideok D. Kwon et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Design, Fabrication, and Test of a Hydrothermal Reactor for Origin-of-Life Experiments

(2010) Randall E. Mielke et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   BIOESSAYS

Composition and evolution of the early oceans: Evidence from the Tagish Lake meteorite

(2010) M.R.M. Izawa et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life

(2010) M. J. RUSSELL et al.   Geobiology

Microbiologically influenced corrosion of archaeological artefacts: characterisation of iron(II) sulfides by Raman spectroscopy

(2010) Céline Rémazeilles et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

The transformation of mackinawite into greigite studied by Raman spectroscopy

(2010) Jacques-André Bourdoiseau et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase/phosphatase may be an ancestral gluconeogenic enzyme

(2010) Rafael F. Say et al.   NATURE

Biomagnification of cadmium selenide quantum dots in a simple experimental microbial food chain

(2010) R. Werlin et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Autotrophic carbon fixation in archaea

(2010) Ivan A. Berg et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Thermal Trap for DNA Replication

(2010) Christof B. Mast et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Highly alkaline, high-temperature hydrothermal fluids in the early Archean ocean

(2010) Takazo Shibuya et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Impact of temperature on the time required for the establishment of primordial biochemistry, and for the evolution of enzymes

(2010) R. B. Stockbridge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Geodynamo, Solar Wind, and Magnetopause 3.4 to 3.45 Billion Years Ago

(2010) J. A. Tarduno et al.   SCIENCE

The Silicate-Mediated Formose Reaction: Bottom-Up Synthesis of Sugar Silicates

(2010) J. B. Lambert et al.   SCIENCE

An Adaptable Peptide-Based Porous Material

(2010) J. Rabone et al.   SCIENCE

Getting Past the RNA World: The Initial Darwinian Ancestor

(2010) M. Yarus   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Hydrogenase cluster biosynthesis: organometallic chemistry nature's way

(2009) Shawn E. McGlynn et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

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

Formation of Protocell-like Vesicles in a Thermal Diffusion Column

(2009) Itay Budin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Microbial habitability of the Hadean Earth during the late heavy bombardment

(2009) Oleg Abramov et al.   NATURE

Atmospheric Sulfur in Archean Komatiite-Hosted Nickel Deposits

(2009) A. Bekker et al.   SCIENCE

Predicting the conformations of peptides and proteins in early evolution. A review article submitted to Biology Direct

(2008) E James Milner-White et al.   Biology Direct

Characterisation of mackinawite by Raman spectroscopy: Effects of crystallisation, drying and oxidation

(2008) J.-A. Bourdoiseau et al.   CORROSION SCIENCE

Linked magma ocean solidification and atmospheric growth for Earth and Mars

(2008) L.T. Elkins-Tanton   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Abiotic ammonium formation in the presence of Ni-Fe metals and alloys and its implications for the Hadean nitrogen cycle

(2008) Alexander Smirnov et al.   GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS

A Novel Main Chain Motif in Proteins Bridged by Cationic Groups: The Niche

(2008) Gilleain M. Torrance et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Abiogenic Hydrocarbon Production at Lost City Hydrothermal Field

(2008) G. Proskurowski et al.   SCIENCE

Was nitric oxide the first deep electron sink?

(2008) Anne-Lise Ducluzeau et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

The prokaryotic complex iron–sulfur molybdoenzyme family

(2007) Richard A. Rothery et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES