UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron–sulfur clusters

C Bonfio, L Valer, S Scintilla, S Shah, DJ Evans… - Nature Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Iron–sulfur clusters are ancient cofactors that play a fundamental role in metabolism and
may have impacted the prebiotic chemistry that led to life. However, it is unclear whether iron …

Sulfate radicals enable a non-enzymatic Krebs cycle precursor

MA Keller, D Kampjut, SA Harrison… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
The evolutionary origins of the Krebs cycle (tricarboxylic acid cycle) are not currently clear.
Despite the existence of a simple non-enzymatic Krebs cycle catalyst being dismissed only a …

Prebiotic Synthesis of Redox-Active Iron-Sulfur Clusters

C Bonfio - 2017 - eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it
Iron-sulfur clusters are indispensable to extant metabolism and are thought to have had an
ancient role in mediating the chemical reactions that led to life. However, there has been no …

UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron–sulfur clusters

JW Szostak, DD Sasselov… - Nature …, 2017 - hull-repository.worktribe.com
Iron–sulfur clusters are ancient cofactors that play a fundamental role in metabolism and
may have impacted the prebiotic chemistry that led to life. However, it is unclear whether iron …

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DV Miller, K Harich, AM Brown, H Xu… - … jannaschii and the …, 2017 - vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
In the hyperthermophilic autotrophic anaerobe, Methanocaldococcus jannaschii, many of
the canonical biosynthetic pathways are replaced with novel routes. Such is the case with …