ReviewOrigins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life2008
Adsorption and polymerization of amino acids on mineral surfaces: a review.
Review in Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
101 citing papers in PubMed.
- Article
- The role of minerals in prebiotic evolution: Implications for identifying worlds with the potential for life's origin.Fundamental research · 2026Review
- From Mineral Surfaces to Peptides: Hydroxyapatite-Based Platforms for Surface-Mediated Prebiotic Synthesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Proteinoid Computing on Olivine Substrates.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2026Article
- Experimental and Computational Simulation of the Prebiotic Peptide Bond Formation Driven by Wet-Dry Cycles and Gamma Ionizing Radiation: An Insight into Molecular Evolution.Journal of molecular evolution · 2026Article
- Antagonistic effects of amino acids support abiotic nano-environments in clay.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Space ionizing radiation triggers the formation of peptides and organophosphates on olivine surfaces.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Reproducible Ala-Gly oligomerization catalyzed by the natural Borate colemanite in prebiotic conditions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- On the emergence of metabolism: the evolution of proteins that powered life.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Selective oxidative modification of tryptophan and cysteine residues using visible light responsive Rh doped SrTiOScientific reports · 2025Article
- Nanometric and Hydrophobic Green Rust Minerals upon Exposure to Amino Acids and Nickel as Prerequisites for a Primitive Chemiosmosis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- On the role of α-alumina in the origin of life: Surface-driven assembly of amino acids.Science advances · 2025Article
- Article
- Neural network properties of hydrophilic polymers as a key for development of the general theory of evolution.Royal Society open science · 2025Review
- Role of metal(ii) hexacyanocobaltate(iii) surface chemistry for prebiotic peptides synthesis.RSC advances · 2025Article
- Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formation.Communications earth & environment · 2025Article
- Origins of Life: The Protein Folding Problem all over again?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The prebiotic emergence of biological evolution.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Did Salts in Seawater Play an Important Role in the Adsorption of Molecules on Minerals in the Prebiotic Earth? The Case of the Adsorption of Thiocyanate onto Forsterite-91.Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 2023Article
- The protometabolic nature of prebiotic chemistry.Chemical Society reviews · 2023Review
41 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The present paper offers a review of recent (post-1980) work on amino acid adsorption and thermal reactivity on oxide and sulfide minerals. This review is performed in the general frame of evaluating Bernal's hypothesis of prebiotic polymerization in the adsorbed state, but written from a surface scientist's point of view. After a general discussion of the thermodynamics of the problem and exactly what effects surfaces should have to make adsorbed-state polymerization a viable scenario, we examine some practical difficulties in experimental design and their bearing on the conclusions that can be drawn from extant works, including the relevance of the various available characterization techniques. We then present the state of the art concerning the mechanisms of the interactions of amino acids with mineral surfaces, including results from prebiotic chemistry-oriented studies, but also from several different fields of application, and discuss the likely consequences for adsorption selectivities. Finally, we briefly summarize the data concerning thermally activated amide bond formation of adsorbed amino acids without activating agents. The reality of the phenomenon is established beyond any doubt, but our understanding of its mechanism and therefore of its prebiotic potential is very fragmentary. The review concludes with a discussion of future work needed to fill the most conspicuous gaps in our knowledge of amino acids/mineral surfaces systems and their reactivity.
Indexed as
Identifiers
18344011What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.