Chemical origin of life articles within Scientific Reports

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  17 January 2024 | Open Access

  Modern analogs for ammonia flux from terrestrial hydrothermal features to the Archean atmosphere

  • J. David Felix

• Article
  02 January 2024 | Open Access

  Hexose phosphorylation for a non-enzymatic glycolysis and pentose phosphate pathway on early Earth

  • Yuta Hirakawa
  • , Takeshi Kakegawa
  •  & Yoshihiro Furukawa

• Article
  19 June 2023 | Open Access

  Conditions for the origin of homochirality in primordial catalytic reaction networks

  • Jean-Sébastien Gagnon
  •  & David Hochberg

• Article
  26 May 2023 | Open Access

  RNA ligase ribozymes with a small catalytic core

  • Yoko Nomura
  •  & Yohei Yokobayashi

• Article
  25 May 2023 | Open Access

  Synthesis of prebiotic organics from CO₂ by catalysis with meteoritic and volcanic particles

  • Sophia Peters
  • , Dmitry A. Semenov
  •  & Oliver Trapp

• Article
  14 April 2023 | Open Access

  A new extremophile ostracod crustacean from the Movile Cave sulfidic chemoautotrophic ecosystem in Romania

  • Sanda Iepure
  • , Anna Wysocka
  •  & Tadeusz Namiotko

• Article
  06 January 2023 | Open Access

  Enzyme-independent catabolism of cysteine with pyridoxal-5′-phosphate

  • Prajakatta Mulay
  • , Cindy Chen
  •  & Vijay Krishna

• Article
  10 November 2022 | Open Access

  Building the uracil skeleton in primitive ponds at the origins of life: carbamoylation of aspartic acid

  • Louis M. P. Ter-Ovanessian
  • , Jean-François Lambert
  •  & Marie-Christine Maurel

• Article
  07 September 2022 | Open Access

  Prebiotic synthesis of noncanonical nucleobases under plausible alkaline hydrothermal conditions

  • Cristina Pérez-Fernández
  • , Jorge Vega
  •  & Marta Ruiz-Bermejo

• Article
  19 July 2022 | Open Access

  Borate-guided ribose phosphorylation for prebiotic nucleotide synthesis

  • Yuta Hirakawa
  • , Takeshi Kakegawa
  •  & Yoshihiro Furukawa

• Article
  23 June 2022 | Open Access

  Visualizing RNA polymers produced by hot wet-dry cycling

  • Tue Hassenkam
  •  & David Deamer

• Article
  14 October 2021 | Open Access

  Biological activity of chitosan inducing resistance efficiency of rice (Oryza sativa L.) after treatment with fungal based chitosan

  • Vethamonickam Stanley-Raja
  • , Sengottayan Senthil-Nathan
  •  & Kandaswamy Kalaivani

• Article
  29 September 2021 | Open Access

  Carbamoyl phosphate and its substitutes for the uracil synthesis in origins of life scenarios

  • Louis M. P. Ter-Ovanessian
  • , Baptiste Rigaud
  •  & Marie-Christine Maurel

• Article
  18 January 2021 | Open Access

  Radiolysis generates a complex organosynthetic chemical network

  • Zachary R. Adam
  • , Albert C. Fahrenbach
  •  & Dmitry Yu. Zubarev

• Article
  01 December 2020 | Open Access

  Machine learning predicts live-birth occurrence before in-vitro fertilization treatment

  • Ashish Goyal
  • , Maheshwar Kuchana
  •  & Kameswari Prasada Rao Ayyagari

• Article
  16 October 2020 | Open Access

  Prebiotic oligomerization and self-assembly of structurally diverse xenobiological monomers

  • Kuhan Chandru
  • , Tony Z. Jia
  •  & H. James Cleaves II

• Article
  18 June 2020 | Open Access

  Evolutionary advantage of anti-parallel strand orientation of duplex DNA

  • Hemachander Subramanian
  •  & Robert A. Gatenby

• Article
  08 June 2020 | Open Access

  Impact-induced amino acid formation on Hadean Earth and Noachian Mars

  • Yuto Takeuchi
  • , Yoshihiro Furukawa
  •  & Takeshi Kakegawa

• Article
  11 March 2020 | Open Access

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

  • Susovan Sarkar
  • , Shikha Dagar
  •  & Sudha Rajamani

• Article
  09 January 2020 | Open Access

  Dynamics and stability in prebiotic information integration: an RNA World model from first principles

  • András Szilágyi
  • , Balázs Könnyű
  •  & Tamás Czárán

• Article
  28 November 2019 | Open Access

  Partitioning of amino acids and proteins into decanol using phase transfer agents towards understanding life in non-polar liquids

  • Brooke Thompson
  • , Kayla Burt
  •  & Sarah E. Maurer

• Article
  25 September 2019 | Open Access

  Lipidated Polyaza Crown Ethers as Membrane Anchors for DNA-Controlled Content Mixing between Liposomes

  • Philipp M. G. Löffler
  • , Anders Højgaard Hansen
  •  & Stefan Vogel

• Article
  19 September 2019 | Open Access

  Prebiotic Phosphorylation of Uridine using Diamidophosphate in Aerosols

  • A. D. Castañeda
  • , Z. Li
  •  & T. M. Orlando

• Article
  28 August 2019 | Open Access

  Adaptive Properties of the Genetically Encoded Amino Acid Alphabet Are Inherited from Its Subsets

  • Melissa Ilardo
  • , Rudrarup Bose
  •  & H. James Cleaves II

• Article
  12 August 2019 | Open Access

  Three dimensional structures of putative, primitive proteins to investigate the origin of homochirality

  • Akifumi Oda
  • , Tomoki Nakayoshi
  •  & Eiji Kurimoto

• Article
  26 June 2019 | Open Access

  Nitrogen heterocycles form peptide nucleic acid precursors in complex prebiotic mixtures

  • Laura E. Rodriguez
  • , Christopher H. House
  •  & Michael P. Callahan

• Article
  06 May 2019 | Open Access

  DNA Length-dependent Division of a Giant Vesicle-based Model Protocell

  • Muneyuki Matsuo
  • , Yumi Kan
  •  & Tadashi Sugawara

• Article
  29 April 2019 | Open Access

  Cryogenian magmatic activity and early life evolution

  • Jie Long
  • , Shixi Zhang
  •  & Kunli Luo

• Article
  13 February 2019 | Open Access

  Prebiotic chemistry in neutral/reduced-alkaline gas-liquid interfaces

  • Cristina Mompeán
  • , Margarita R. Marín-Yaseli
  •  & Marta Ruiz-Bermejo

• Article
  17 January 2019 | Open Access

  Budding and Division of Giant Vesicles Linked to Phospholipid Production

  • Juan M. Castro
  • , Hironori Sugiyama
  •  & Taro Toyota

• Article
  23 August 2018 | Open Access

  Towards Functional Droplet Architectures: a Belousov-Zhabotinsky Medium for Networks

  • Kai Ming Chang
  • , Maurits R. R. de Planque
  •  & Klaus-Peter Zauner

• Article
  11 June 2018 | Open Access

  Amino Acid Chiral Selection Via Weak Interactions in Stellar Environments: Implications for the Origin of Life

  • Michael A. Famiano
  • , Richard N. Boyd
  •  & Yirong Mo

• Article
  13 March 2018 | Open Access

  The Boring Billion, a slingshot for Complex Life on Earth

  • Indrani Mukherjee
  • , Ross R. Large
  •  & Leonid V. Danyushevsky

• Article
  23 February 2018 | Open Access

  Horizontal transfer of code fragments between protocells can explain the origins of the genetic code without vertical descent

  • Tom Froese
  • , Jorge I. Campos
  •  & Nathaniel Virgo

• Article
  19 January 2018 | Open Access

  Comprehensive reduction of amino acid set in a protein suggests the importance of prebiotic amino acids for stable proteins

  • Rei Shibue
  • , Takahiro Sasamoto
  •  & Satoshi Akanuma

• Article
  17 January 2018 | Open Access

  Prebiotic formation of cyclic dipeptides under potentially early Earth conditions

  • Jianxi Ying
  • , Rongcan Lin
  •  & Yufen Zhao

• Article
  10 January 2018 | Open Access

  Estimating the capacity for production of formamide by radioactive minerals on the prebiotic Earth

  • Zachary R. Adam
  • , Yayoi Hongo
  •  & Masashi Aono

• Article
  22 December 2017 | Open Access

  Crude phosphorylation mixtures containing racemic lipid amphiphiles self-assemble to give stable primitive compartments

  • Dimitri Fayolle
  • , Emiliano Altamura
  •  & Peter Strazewski

• Article
  13 December 2017 | Open Access

  Computational exploration of the chemical structure space of possible reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle constituents

  • Markus Meringer
  •  & H. James Cleaves II

• Article
  16 October 2017 | Open Access

  Enantiomeric excess by magnetic circular dichroism in Archaean atmosphere

  • A. Sharma

• Article
  12 June 2017 | Open Access

  Combining Catalytic Microparticles with Droplets Formed by Phase Coexistence: Adsorption and Activity of Natural Clays at the Aqueous/Aqueous Interface

  • Fatma Pir Cakmak
  •  & Christine D. Keating

• Article
  09 June 2017 | Open Access

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

  • Gabriel Piedrafita
  • , Pierre-Alain Monnard
  •  & Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo

• Article
  03 April 2017 | Open Access

  Catalyzed Synthesis of Zinc Clays by Prebiotic Central Metabolites

  • Ruixin Zhou
  • , Kaustuv Basu
  •  & Marcelo I. Guzman

• Article
  07 March 2017 | Open Access

  Mineral Surface Chemistry and Nanoparticle-aggregation Control Membrane Self-Assembly

  • Nita Sahai
  • , Hussein Kaddour
  •  & Min Gao

• Article
  27 January 2017 | Open Access

  Emergent Properties of Giant Vesicles Formed by a Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly (PISA) Reaction

  • Anders N. Albertsen
  • , Jan K. Szymański
  •  & Juan Pérez-Mercader

• Article
  14 December 2016 | Open Access

  Meteorite Impact-Induced Rapid NH₃ Production on Early Earth: Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation

  • Kohei Shimamura
  • , Fuyuki Shimojo
  •  & Shigenori Tanaka

• Article
  13 December 2016 | Open Access

  The key role of meteorites in the formation of relevant prebiotic molecules in a formamide/water environment

  • Luca Rotelli
  • , Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez
  •  & Raffaele Saladino

• Article
  09 August 2016 | Open Access

  Deformable Self-Propelled Micro-Object Comprising Underwater Oil Droplets

  • Taisuke Banno
  • , Arisa Asami
  •  & Taro Toyota

• Article
  21 July 2016 | Open Access

  The Abiotic Chemistry of Thiolated Acetate Derivatives and the Origin of Life

  • Kuhan Chandru
  • , Alexis Gilbert
  •  & H. James Cleaves

• Article
  14 June 2016 | Open Access

  Rising levels of atmospheric oxygen and evolution of Nrf2

  • Ranko Gacesa
  • , Walter C. Dunlap
  •  & Paul F. Long