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Hydrothermal reactions of pyruvic acid: synthesis, selection, and self-assembly of amphiphilic moleculesRobert M Hazen
Carnegie Institution and NASA Astrobiology Institute, 5251 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20015 1305, USA
Orig Life Evol Biosph 37:143-52. 2007..These results suggest that a robust family of prebiotic reaction pathways produces similar products over a range of geochemical and astrochemical environments...
Functional information and the emergence of biocomplexityRobert M Hazen
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, 5251 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20015 1305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:8574-81. 2007..In each case we observe evidence for several distinct solutions with different maximum degrees of function, features that lead to steps in plots of information versus degree of function...
Adsorption of nucleic acid components on rutile (TiO(2)) surfacesH James Cleaves
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Rd NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA
Astrobiology 10:311-23. 2010..The conformations of the molecules bound to rutile surfaces appear to favor specific interactions, which in turn may allow identification of the most favorable mineral surfaces for nucleic acid adsorption...
Chiral selection on inorganic crystalline surfacesRobert M Hazen
Carnegie Institution of Washington and NASA Astrobiology Institute, 5251 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington DC 20015, USA
Nat Mater 2:367-74. 2003..Here we review experimental and theoretical approaches to chiral selection on inorganic crystalline surfaces - research that is poised to open this new frontier in understanding and exploiting surface-molecule interactions...
Attachment of L-glutamate to rutile (alpha-TiO(2)): a potentiometric, adsorption, and surface complexation studyCaroline M Jonsson
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
Langmuir 25:12127-35. 2009..Overall, our results serve as a basis for a better quantitative understanding of how and under what conditions acidic amino acids bind to oxide mineral surfaces...
Sequence analysis of trimer isomers formed by montmorillonite catalysis in the reaction of binary monomer mixturesGözen Ertem
Geophysical Laboratory and NASA Astrobiology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Astrobiology 7:715-22. 2007..These results lend support to Bernal's hypothesis that minerals may have played a significant role in the chemical processes that led to the origin of life by catalyzing the formation of phosphodiester bonds in RNA-like oligomers...
The emergence of patterning in lifes origin and evolutionRobert M Hazen
Carnegie Institution, Washington, DC 20015, USA
Int J Dev Biol 53:683-92. 2009....
Microbial activity at gigapascal pressuresAnurag Sharma
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road, N W, Washington, DC 20015, USA
Science 295:1514-6. 2002..1 MPa). Evidence of microbial viability and activity at these extreme pressures expands by an order of magnitude the range of conditions representing the habitable zone in the solar system...
Mineral surfaces, geochemical complexities, and the origins of lifeRobert M Hazen
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015, USA
Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2:a002162. 2010....
The first contribution of capillary electrophoresis to the study of abiotic origins of homochirality: investigation of the enantioselective adsorption of 3-carboxy adipic acid on mineralsMaría Castro-Puyana
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Electrophoresis 29:1548-55. 2008..Results showed that an enantioselective adsorption of the enantiomers of 3-carboxy adipic acid on minerals took place...
Debating evidence for the origin of life on EarthJeffrey L Bada
Science 315:937-9; author reply 937-9. 2007
