Mineral Catalysis and Prebiotic Synthesis: Montmorillonite-Catalyzed Formation of RNA

By J. Ferris. 2005

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Genetics, Molecular Biology

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• Presidential Address to the Mineralogical Society of America, Salt Lake City, October 18, 2005: Mineral surfaces and the prebiotic selection and organization of biomolecules (2006, background): “…Ferris and colleagues at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have induced clays to act as scaffolds in the formation of RNA, the polymer that carries the genetic message enabling protein synthesis (Ferris 1993, 1999, 2005; Holm et al. 1993; Ferris and Ertem 1992, 1993; Ertem and Ferris 1996, 1997).”