Prebiotic iron–sulfur peptide catalysts generate a pH gradient across model membranes of late protocells

C Bonfio, E Godino, M Corsini, F Fabrizi de Biani… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
Prebiotic chemistry was likely mediated by metals, but how such prebiotic chemistry
progressed into the metabolic-like networks needed to sustain life remains unclear. Here we …

Autocatalytic Cycles in a Copper-Catalyzed Azide–Alkyne Cycloaddition Reaction

SN Semenov, L Belding, BJ Cafferty… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
This work describes the autocatalytic copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC)
reaction between tripropargylamine and 2-azidoethanol in the presence of Cu (II) salts. The …

Cellular mimics within lipid vesicles and in thermal out-of-equilibrium chambers

N Yeh Martín - 2018 - eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it
The absence of clear criteria to recognize life and evaluate attempts at building a cell from
component parts has slowed progress towards the construction of cellular mimics that fully …