Abiotic synthesis of amino acids in the recesses of the oceanic lithosphere

2018/11/06 by Bénédicte Ménez, Bénédicte Ménèz, Céline Pisapia +9 · 1 voice · 5 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · Physics and Astronomy · #Origins and Evolution of Life #Photoreceptor and optogenetics research #Protein Structure and Dynamics

paper · doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0684-z

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Discussions

• Even more ancient “pre-LUCA” protein clans that had diversified pre-LUCA are more enriched for all four aromatic (ring-containing) amino acids than single-copy LUCA-clans. Abiotically produced aromati [bsky, 5 points, 3 comments]