OoL digest — January 29 edition
This week we have 21 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
TRAPPIST-1 and its compact system of temperate rocky planets
Gillon – preprint
Detection and chemical modelling of complex prebiotic molecule cyanamide in the hot molecular core G31.41+0.31
Manna et al. – preprint
Microstructural and chemical features of impact melts on Ryugu particle surfaces: Records of interplanetary dust hit on asteroid Ryugu
Matsumoto et al. – Science Advances
Sub-Diurnal Methane Variations on Mars Driven by Barometric Pumping and Planetary Boundary Layer Evolution
Ortiz et al. – Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Mars 2020 Perseverance rover studies of the Martian atmosphere over Jezero from pressure measurements
Sánchez-Lavega et al. – Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Inner Edge Habitable Zone Limits Around Main Sequence Stars: Cloudy Estimates
Windsor et al. – preprint
JWST observations of K2-18b can be explained by a gas-rich mini-Neptune with no habitable surface
Wogan et al. – preprint
Inferring chemical disequilibrium biosignatures for Proterozoic Earth-like exoplanets
Young et al. – Nature Astronomy
Biochemistry
Influence of the Weak Nuclear Force on Metal-Promoted Autocatalytic Strecker Synthesis of Amino Acids: Formation of a Chiral Pool of Precursors for Prebiotic Peptide and Protein Synthesis
Cowan – Life (Basel, Switzerland)
Constraints on the Emergence of RNA through Non-Templated Primer Extension with Mixtures of Potentially Prebiotic Nucleotides
Jia et al. – preprint
From the RNA-Peptide World: Prebiotic Reaction Conditions Compatible with Lipid Membranes for the Formation of Lipophilic Random Peptides in the Presence of Short Oligonucleotides, and More
Lopez et al. – Life (Basel, Switzerland)
Oxazolone mediated peptide chain extension and homochirality in aqueous microdroplets
Qiu et al. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Biology
Phylogenomic insights into the first multicellular streptophyte
Bierenbroodspot et al. – Current Biology
Aspects of the biological carbon cycle in a ca. 3.42-billion-year-old marine ecosystem
Reinhardt et al. – Precambrian Research
Chemistry
Effects of Activation Barriers on Quenching to Stabilize Prebiotic Chemical Systems
Sheng et al. – Life (Basel, Switzerland)
Geobiology
Biogeochemical explanations for the world’s most phosphate-rich lake, an origin-of-life analog
Haas et al. – Communications Earth & Environment
The influence of silica on reaction rates and molecular hydrogen (H2) generation during olivine hydrothermal alteration
Huang et al. – Science China Earth Sciences
Aspects of the biological carbon cycle in a ca. 3.42-billion-year-old marine ecosystem
Reinhardt et al. – Precambrian Research
Mathematical biology
Emergence of metabolic-like cycles in blockchain-orchestrated reaction networks
Roszak et al. – Chem
Microbiology
1.63-billion-year-old multicellular eukaryotes from the Chuanlinggou Formation in North China
Miao et al. – Science Advances
Double-stranded RNA sequencing reveals distinct riboviruses associated with thermoacidophilic bacteria from hot springs in Japan
Urayama et al. – Nature Microbiology