Origin of Life Digest
This week we have 5 preprints and 9 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
Abundant phosphorus expected for possible life in Enceladus’s ocean – Hao et al. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Peptide Bonds in the Interstellar Medium: Facile Autocatalytic Formation from Nitriles on Water-Ice Grains – Kerkeni et al. – preprint
Formation and evolution of carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu: Direct evidence from returned samples – Nakamura et al. – Science
A primordial atmospheric origin of hydrospheric deuterium enrichment on Mars – Pahlevan et al. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Biochemistry
Selection of prebiotic oligonucleotides by cyclic phase separation – Bartolucci et al. – preprint
The hierarchical organization of autocatalytic reaction networks and its relevance to the origin of life – Peng et al. – PLOS Computational Biology
Complete RNA replication cycles in a Hadean microcompartment – Salditt et al. – preprint
Growth, replication and division enable evolution of coacervate protocells – Slootbeek et al. – Chemical Communications
The Statistical Trends of Protein Evolution: A Lesson from AlphaFold Database – Tang et al. – Molecular Biology and Evolution
Biophysics
DNA and the origins of life in micaceous clay – Hansma – Biophysical Journal
Chemistry
An experimental and theoretical investigation of HCN production in the Hadean Earth atmosphere – Pearce et al. – preprint
Microbiology
Single-particle studies of the effects of RNA–protein interactions on the self-assembly of RNA virus particles– Garmann et al. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Origin and Evolution of Nitrogen Fixation in Prokaryotes – Pi et al. – Molecular Biology and Evolution