OoL digest — November 11 edition
This week we have 25 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Massive Ice Sheet Basal Melting Triggered by Atmospheric Collapse on Mars, Leading to Formation of an Overtopped, Ice-Covered Argyre Basin Paleolake Fed by 1,000-km Rivers
Buhler — Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Experimental and theoretical studies of the interactions of alanine onto surfaces of olivine and montmorillonite: relevance in astrobiology
Colín-García et al. — International Journal of Astrobiology
Possibilities for methanogenic and acetogenic life in molecular cloud
Feng — Life
Assessing the Detectability of Europa’s Seafloor Topography from Europa Clipper’s Gravity Data
Koh et al. — The Planetary Science Journal
Chemistry Analysis for the Origin of Life in Protoplanetary Disks
Li —
The 10 pc Neighborhood of Habitable Zone Exoplanetary Systems: Threat Assessment from Stellar Encounters & Supernovae
Pyne et al. — preprint
The 10 pc Neighborhood of Habitable Zone Exoplanetary Systems: Threat Assessment from Stellar Encounters & Supernovae
Pyne et al. — preprint
Distinguishing Potential Organic Biosignatures on Ocean Worlds from Abiotic Geochemical Products using Thermodynamic Calculations
Robare et al. — preprint
Rapid Destruction of Lipid Biomarkers Under Simulated Cosmic Radiation
Roussel et al. — Astrobiology
Astrophysics
Our Solar System Neighborhood: Three Diverging Tales of Planetary Habitability and Windows to Earth’s Past and Future
Kane et al. — preprint
Instrumentation prospects for rocky exoplanet atmospheres studies with high resolution spectroscopy
Rukdee — Scientific Reports
Biochemistry
Glycine synthesis from nitrate and glyoxylate mediated by ferroan brucite: An integrated pathway for prebiotic amine synthesis
Chimiak et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
γ-Ray Driven Aqueous-Phase Methane Conversions into Complex Molecules up to Glycine
Fang et al. — Angewandte Chemie International Edition
A tuneable minimal cell membrane reveals that two lipid species suffice for life
Justice et al. — Nature Communications
Compositional diversity of minimal coacervates in a nucleic acid-peptide world
Nakashima et al. — preprint
Autocatalytic assembly of a chimeric aminoacyl-RNA synthetase ribozyme
Radakovic et al. — preprint
Chemistry
The evolution of complexity and the transition to biochemical life
Gagrani et al. — preprint
Geosciences
Lithium isotope evidence for a plumeworld ocean in the aftermath of the Marinoan snowball Earth
Gan et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The dinucleotide structure of NAD enables specific reduction on mineral surfaces
Pereira et al. — preprint
Enhanced metamorphic CO2 release on the Proterozoic Earth
Stewart et al. — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Mathematical biology
Evidence of causality between Closure and Open-Ended Evolution in the Kauffman model
Faggian — preprint
Microbiology
The bioenergetic cost of building a metazoan
Lynch — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Radiolytic support for oxidative metabolism in an ancient subsurface brine system
Nisson et al. — ISME Communications
Physics
Thermodynamics of prebiotic synthesis
Grayson — preprint
A dynamical systems perspective on the celestial mechanical contribution to the emergence of life
Zhang — preprint