Catalyzed Synthesis of Zinc Clays by Prebiotic Central Metabolites
Ruixin Zhou, Kaustuv Basu, Hyman Hartman, Christopher Matocha, S. Kelly Sears, Hojatollah Vali, Marcelo I Guzman
This study shows that succinate, a prebiotic metabolite, catalyzes the synthesis of clay minerals under conditions relevant to early Earth, linking prebiotic chemistry and geology.
bioRxiv · Sep 14, 2016Synthetic Biology