Energy at Origins: Favorable Thermodynamics of Biosynthetic Reactions in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) (Wimmer & Martin) https://t.co/DXYuAO7TeM
The Prebiotic Kitchen: A Guide to Composing Prebiotic Soup Recipes to Test Origins of Life Hypotheses (Vincent, Colón-Santos, Cleaves, Baum, & Maurer)
https://t.co/EDwqRvsZEh
Concurrent Prebiotic Formation of Nucleoside-Amidophosphates and Nucleoside-Triphosphates Potentiates Transition from Abiotic to Biotic Polymerization
https://t.co/lPwQpebMCW
Transamination between biological keto and amino acids is typically mediated by enzymes, but metal ions can do it too. To understand how, we did a mechanistic deep dive, now out in @J_A_C_S. Congrats @RJ_Mayer, Harpreet & @SophiaRauscher!