Publications
2024
Conference Paper
1865, 149224, (2024)
Serpentinization as the source of energy, electrons, organics, catalysts, nutrients and pH gradients for the origin of LUCA and life. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: BBA
Journal Article
121 (13), e2318969121 (2024)
Ferredoxin reduction by hydrogen with iron functions as an evolutionary precursor of flavin-based electron bifurcation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Journal Article
650, 121994 (2024)
Coupled carbon‑iron‑phosphorus cycling in the Rainbow hydrothermal vent field. Chemical Geology 2023
Journal Article
14, 570 (2023)
Ambient temperature CO2 fixation to pyruvate and subsequently to citramalate over iron and nickel nanoparticles. Nature Communications
Review Article
14, 1257597 (2023)
Serpentinization as the source of energy, electrons, organics, catalysts, nutrients and pH gradients for the origin of LUCA and life. Frontiers in Microbiology 2022
Journal Article
289 (11), pp. 3148 - 3162 (2022)
Role of geochemical protoenzymes (geozymes) in primordial metabolism: specific abiotic hydride transfer by metals to the biological redox cofactor NAD+. FEBS JOURNAL 2021
Commentary
Life in a carbon dioxide world (NATURE, 592). (2021)
Journal Article
9 (2), 458 (2021)
The Autotrophic Core: An Ancient Network of 404 Reactions Converts H2, CO2, and NH3 into Amino Acids, Bases, and Cofactors. MICROORGANISMS
Journal Article
12, 793664 (2021)
Energy at Origins: Favorable Thermodynamics of Biosynthetic Reactions in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY 2020
Journal Article
594 (17), pp. 2717 - 2733 (2020)
The ambivalent role of water at the origins of life. FEBS LETTERS
Journal Article
10 (3), 20 (2020)
The Future of Origin of Life Research: Bridging Decades-Old Divisions. LIFE-BASEL
Journal Article
4 (4), pp. 534 - + (2020)
A hydrogen-dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism. NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 2019
Journal Article
9 (6), 20190072 (2019)
Catalysts, autocatalysis and the origin of metabolism. INTERFACE FOCUS 2018
Journal Article
8 (4), 41 (2018)
Serpentinization: Connecting Geochemistry, Ancient Metabolism and Industrial Hydrogenation. LIFE-BASEL
Journal Article
43, pp. 77 - 83 (2018)
Native metals, electron bifurcation, and CO2 reduction in early biochemical evolution. CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
Journal Article
14 (8), e1007518 (2018)
The last universal common ancestor between ancient Earth chemistry and the onset of genetics. PLOS GENETICS
Journal Article
285 (22), pp. 4181 - 4195 (2018)
Something special about CO-dependent CO2 fixation. FEBS JOURNAL 2017
Book Chapter
Origin of Life, Theories of. In: Encyclopedia of Microbiology (Fourth Edition), pp. 383 - 387 (Ed. Schmidt, T. M.). Academic Press (2017)