OoL digest — June 12 edition
This week we have 15 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Prebiosignature Molecules Can Be Detected in Temperate Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST
Claringbold et al. – preprint
Implications of atmospheric non-detections for Trappist-1 inner planets on atmospheric retention prospects for outer planets
Krissansen-Totton – preprint
Critical Aspects of Material Selection in the Packaging and Transporting of Returned Extraterrestrial Samples
Longobardo et al. – Astrobiology
Microbial Transport by a Descending Ice Melting Probe: Implications for Subglacial and Ocean World Exploration
Schuler et al. – Astrobiology
Lazarus Stars: Numerical investigations of stellar evolution with star-lifting as a life extension strategy
Scoggins et al. – Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Spatial variations in aromatic hydrocarbon emission in a dust-rich galaxy
Spilker et al. – Nature
Toward Network-Based Planetary Biosignatures: Atmospheric Chemistry as Unipartite, Unweighted, Undirected Networks
Wong et al. – Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Biochemistry
Spectroscopic and Biophysical Methods to Determine Differential Salt-Uptake by Primitive Membraneless Polyester Microdroplets
Chen et al. – Small Methods
Metal-Pyridoxal Cooperativity in Nonenzymatic Transamination
Dherbassy et al. – Journal of the American Chemical Society
A prebiotic precursor to Life’s phosphate transfer system with an ATP analogue and histidyl peptide organocatalysts
Maguire et al. – preprint
The central dogma of biological homochirality: How does chiral information propagate in a prebiotic network?
Ozturk et al. – preprint
Biology
Toward a Bio-Organon: A model of interdependence between energy, information and knowledge in living systems
Jacob – Biosystems
A Transiently Hypersaline Microbial Mat Harbors a Diverse and Stable Archaeal Community in the Cuatro Cienegas Basin, Mexico
Medina-Chávez et al. – Astrobiology
Chemical physics
Structural constraints limit the regime of optimal flux in autocatalytic reaction networks
Despons et al. – preprint
Earth sciences
Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown
Brocks et al. – Nature