[HTML][HTML] Origins of building blocks of life: A review

N Kitadai, S Maruyama - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018‏ - Elsevier
How and where did life on Earth originate? To date, various environments have been
proposed as plausible sites for the origin of life. However, discussions have focused on a …

Metal–Sulfur Compounds in N2 Reduction and Nitrogenase-Related Chemistry

K Tanifuji, Y Ohki - Chemical reviews, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Transition metal–sulfur (M–S) compounds are an indispensable means for biological
systems to convert N2 into NH3 (biological N2 fixation), and these may have emerged by …

Highly dispersive and stable Fe 3+ active sites on 2D graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets for efficient visible-light photocatalytic nitrogen fixation

C Yao, R Wang, Z Wang, H Lei, X Dong… - Journal of Materials …, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
As an indispensable chemical, ammonia is produced by the Haber–Bosch process using H2
and N2 under severe reaction conditions. Recently, photocatalysis using solar energy has …

Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of the RNA world

O Leslie E - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology, 2004‏ - Taylor & Francis
The demonstration that ribosomal peptide synthesis is a ribozyme-catalyzed reaction makes
it almost certain that there was once an RNA World. The central problem for origin-of-life …

The role of hydrogen sulfide in evolution and the evolution of hydrogen sulfide in metabolism and signaling

KR Olson, KD Straub - Physiology, 2016‏ - journals.physiology.org
The chemical versatility of sulfur and its abundance in the prebiotic Earth as reduced sulfide
(H2S) implicate this molecule in the origin of life 3.8 billion years ago and also as a major …

Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life

MJ Russell, AJ Hall, W Martin - Geobiology, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
For life to have emerged from CO2, rocks, and water on the early Earth, a sustained source
of chemically transducible energy was essential. The serpentinization process is emerging …

Dinitrogen coordination chemistry: on the biomimetic borderlands

BA MacKay, MD Fryzuk - Chemical reviews, 2004‏ - ACS Publications
Biological nitrogen fixation by the nitrogenase enzymes has long been a touchstone for
dinitrogen chemists. 1, 2 Both the enzymatic reduction and protonation of N2 mediated by …

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

N Lane, JF Allen, W Martin - BioEssays, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite thermodynamic, bioenergetic and phylogenetic failings, the 81‐year‐old concept of
primordial soup remains central to mainstream thinking on the origin of life. But soup is …

Early bioenergetic evolution

FL Sousa, T Thiergart, G Landan… - … of the Royal …, 2013‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Life is the harnessing of chemical energy in such a way that the energy-harnessing device
makes a copy of itself. This paper outlines an energetically feasible path from a particular …

Mineral surfaces, geochemical complexities, and the origins of life

RM Hazen, DA Sverjensky - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2010‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Crystalline surfaces of common rock-forming minerals are likely to have played several
important roles in life's geochemical origins. Transition metal sulfides and oxides promote a …