UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron-sulfur clusters.
UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron-sulfur clusters.
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10.1038/nchem.2817
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发表时间:
2017-12
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影响因子:
21.8
通讯作者:
Mansy SS
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作者:
Bonfio C;Valer L;Scintilla S;Shah S;Evans DJ;Jin L;Szostak JW;Sasselov DD;Sutherland JD;Mansy SS
Iron-sulfur clusters are ancient cofactors that play a fundamental role in metabolism and may have impacted the prebiotic chemistry that led to life. However, it is unclear whether iron-sulfur clusters could have been synthesized on prebiotic Earth. Dissolved iron on early Earth was predominantly in the reduced ferrous state, but ferrous ions alone cannot form polynuclear iron-sulfur clusters. Similarly, free sulfide may not have been readily available. Here we show that UV light drives the synthesis of [2Fe-2S] and [4Fe-4S] clusters through the photooxidation of ferrous ions and the photolysis of organic thiols. Iron-sulfur clusters coordinate to and are stabilized by a wide range of cysteine containing peptides, and the assembly of iron-sulfur cluster-peptide complexes can take place within model protocells in a process that parallels extant pathways. Our experiments suggest that iron-sulfur clusters may have formed easily on early Earth, facilitating the emergence of an iron-sulfur cluster dependent metabolism.
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影响因子:
20.6
作者:
Qi W;Cowan JA
通讯作者:
Cowan JA
DOI:
10.1039/dt9840001441
发表时间:
1984-01-01
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JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-DALTON TRANSACTIONS
影响因子:
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作者:
BRATERMAN, PS;CAIRNSSMITH, AG;CRAW, M
通讯作者:
CRAW, M
DOI:
10.1016/j.bbamcr.2014.11.020
发表时间:
2015-06
影响因子:
5.1
作者:
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通讯作者:
Markley, John L.
影响因子:
4.5
作者:
Belmonte, Luca;Mansy, Sheref S.
通讯作者:
Mansy, Sheref S.
影响因子:
16.6
作者:
Pasek, Matthew A.;Kee, Terence P.;Lunine, Jonathan I.
通讯作者:
Lunine, Jonathan I.