On the origin of biochemistry at an alkaline hydrothermal vent

By William F. Martin, Michael Russell. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2007

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology

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The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution (2011, background): “Thus, the compartments appear to be a perfect environment for diverse organic syntheses, from the simplest and most fundamental, such as the reduction of CO2 by molecular hydrogen that yields acetate, to complex reactions such as synthesis of polynucleotides and peptides—in other words, the “origin ”
The terrestrial biota prior to the origin of land plants (embryophytes): a review of the evidence (2015, background): “The notion of an oceanic origin to life has been extended somewhat into recent times by both RNA-world and metabolic theories that look to deep hydrothermal vents as a likely locus to LUCA (the last universal common ancestor; Baross and Hoffman 1985; Martin and Russell 2007; Lane et al. 2010).”
Acetogenesis and the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway of CO2 Fixation (2008, methodology): “The simple strategy of the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway of successively joining two one-carbon compounds to make a two-carbon compound has been envisioned to be the earliest form of metabolism [97].”
Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life (2008, background): “The presence of acetate and formate (in addition to CH 4 ) fits well with the hypothesis that the types of chemical reactions which are catalysed by minerals in the mantle at Lost City are inorganic analogues, and even the possible evolutionary precursors, of the energy-releasing reactions that pred”
Origins of building blocks of life: A review (2017, background): “Russell and colleagues have proposed that life arose within alkaline hydrothermal vents similar to those of the Lost City (Russell et al., 1994; Russell, 2003, 2007; Martin and Russell, 2007; Russell et al., 2010, 2014).”