Publications

2024
Conference Paper
Schwander, L.; Brabender, M.; Mrnjavac, N.; Wimmer, J. L.E.; Preiner, M.; Martin, W. F.: 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 1865, 149224, (2024)
Journal Article
Brabender, M.; Henriques Pereira, D. P.; Mrnjavac, N.; Schlikker, M. L.; Kimura, Z.-I.; Sucharitakul, J.; Kleinermanns, K.; Tüysüz, H.; Buckel, W.; Preiner, M. et al.; Martin, W. F.: Ferredoxin reduction by hydrogen with iron functions as an evolutionary precursor of flavin-based electron bifurcation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (13), e2318969121 (2024)
Journal Article
Ungerhofer, K. A.; Plümper, O.; Preiner, M.; Reichart, G.-J.; Kraal, P.: Coupled carbon‑iron‑phosphorus cycling in the Rainbow hydrothermal vent field. Chemical Geology 650, 121994 (2024)
2023
Journal Article
Beyazay, T.; Belthle, K. S.; Farès, C.; Preiner, M.; Moran, J.; Martin, W. F.; Tüysüz, H.: Ambient temperature CO2 fixation to pyruvate and subsequently to citramalate over iron and nickel nanoparticles. Nature Communications 14, 570 (2023)
Review Article
Schwander, L.; Brabender, M.; Mrnjavac, N.; Wimmer, J. L. E.; Preiner, M.; Martin, W. F.: Serpentinization as the source of energy, electrons, organics, catalysts, nutrients and pH gradients for the origin of LUCA and life. Frontiers in Microbiology 14, 1257597 (2023)
2022
Journal Article
Pereira, D. P. H.; Leethaus, J.; Beyazay, T.; Vieira, A. d. N.; Kleinermanns, K.; Tuysuz, H.; Martin, W. F.; Preiner, M.: Role of geochemical protoenzymes (geozymes) in primordial metabolism: specific abiotic hydride transfer by metals to the biological redox cofactor NAD+. FEBS JOURNAL 289 (11), pp. 3148 - 3162 (2022)
2021
Commentary
Life in a carbon dioxide world (NATURE, 592). (2021)
Journal Article
Wimmer, J. L. E.; Vieira, A. d. N.; Xavier, J. C.; Kleinermanns, K.; Martin, W. F.; Preiner, M.: The Autotrophic Core: An Ancient Network of 404 Reactions Converts H2, CO2, and NH3 into Amino Acids, Bases, and Cofactors. MICROORGANISMS 9 (2), 458 (2021)
Journal Article
Wimmer, J. L. E.; Xavier, J. C.; Vieira, A. d. N.; Pereira, D. P. H.; Leidner, J.; Sousa, F. L.; Kleinermanns, K.; Preiner, M.; Martin, W. F.: Energy at Origins: Favorable Thermodynamics of Biosynthetic Reactions in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY 12, 793664 (2021)
2020
Journal Article
do Nascimento Vieira, A.; Kleinermanns, K.; Martin, W. F.; Preiner, M.: The ambivalent role of water at the origins of life. FEBS LETTERS 594 (17), pp. 2717 - 2733 (2020)
Journal Article
Preiner, M.; Asche, S.; Becker, S.; Betts, H. C.; Boniface, A.; Camprubi, E.; Chandru, K.; Erastova, V.; Garg, S. G.; Khawaja, N. et al.; Kostyrka, G.; Machne, R.; Moggioli, G.; Muchowska, K. B.; Neukirchen, S.; Peter, B.; Pichlhoefer, E.; Radvanyi, A.; Rossetto, D.; Salditt, A.; Schmelling, N. M.; Sousa, F. L.; Tria, F. D. K.; Voros, D.; Xavier, J. C.: The Future of Origin of Life Research: Bridging Decades-Old Divisions. LIFE-BASEL 10 (3), 20 (2020)
Journal Article
Preiner, M.; Igarashi, K.; Muchowska, K. B.; Yu, M.; Varma, S. J.; Kleinermanns, K.; Nobu, M. K.; Kamagata, Y.; Tueysuez, H.; Moran, J. et al.; Martin, W. F.: A hydrogen-dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism. NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 4 (4), pp. 534 - + (2020)
2019
Journal Article
Preiner, M.; Xavier, J. C.; Vieira, A. d. N.; Kleinermanns, K.; Allen, J. F.; Martin, W. F.: Catalysts, autocatalysis and the origin of metabolism. INTERFACE FOCUS 9 (6), 20190072 (2019)
2018
Journal Article
Preiner, M.; Xavier, J. C.; Sousa, F. L.; Zimorski, V.; Neubeck, A.; Lang, S. Q.; Greenwell, H. C.; Kleinermanns, K.; Tuysuz, H.; McCollom, T. M. et al.; Holm, N. G.; Martin, W. F.: Serpentinization: Connecting Geochemistry, Ancient Metabolism and Industrial Hydrogenation. LIFE-BASEL 8 (4), 41 (2018)
Journal Article
Sousa, F. L.; Preiner, M.; Martin, W. F.: Native metals, electron bifurcation, and CO2 reduction in early biochemical evolution. CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY 43, pp. 77 - 83 (2018)
Journal Article
Weiss, M. C.; Preiner, M.; Xavier, J. C.; Zimorski, V.; Martin, W. F.: The last universal common ancestor between ancient Earth chemistry and the onset of genetics. PLOS GENETICS 14 (8), e1007518 (2018)
Journal Article
Xavier, J. C.; Preiner, M.; Martin, W. F.: Something special about CO-dependent CO2 fixation. FEBS JOURNAL 285 (22), pp. 4181 - 4195 (2018)
2017
Book Chapter
Martin, W. F.; Preiner, M.: Origin of Life, Theories of. In: Encyclopedia of Microbiology (Fourth Edition), pp. 383 - 387 (Ed. Schmidt, T. M.). Academic Press (2017)
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