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Origins of life: How leaky were primitive cells?
Article in Nature, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Serotonergic Mechanisms in Proteinoid-Based Protocells.ACS chemical neuroscience · 2025Article
- The Possible Crystallization Process in the Origin of Bacteria, Archaea, Viruses, and Mobile Elements.Biology · 2024Article
- Systematic comparison of unilamellar vesicles reveals that archaeal core lipid membranes are more permeable than bacterial membranes.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Cell Surface Engineering Using DNAzymes: Metal Ion Mediated Control of Cell-Cell Interactions.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2021Article
- How to Build a Biological Machine Using Engineering Materials and Methods.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Proton gradients and pH oscillations emerge from heat flow at the microscale.Nature communications · 2017Article
- Permeability-driven selection in a semi-empirical protocell model: the roots of prebiotic systems evolution.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The plasma membrane as a capacitor for energy and metabolism.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2016Review
- From damage response to action potentials: early evolution of neural and contractile modules in stem eukaryotes.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Formation of oligopeptides in high yield under simple programmable conditions.Nature communications · 2015Article
- Ancient Systems of Sodium/Potassium Homeostasis as Predecessors of Membrane Bioenergetics.Biochemistry. Biokhimiia · 2015Article
- The Hypothesis that the Genetic Code Originated in Coupled Synthesis of Proteins and the Evolutionary Predecessors of Nucleic Acids in Primitive Cells.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2015Article
- A bioenergetic basis for membrane divergence in archaea and bacteria.PLoS biology · 2014Article
- The origins of cellular life.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2014Review
- Processing of meteoritic organic materials as a possible analog of early molecular evolution in planetary environments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
- Origin of first cells at terrestrial, anoxic geothermal fields.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012Article
- Viability conditions for a compartmentalized protometabolic system: a semi-empirical approach.PloS one · 2012Article
- Links between hydrothermal environments, pyrophosphate, na(+), and early evolution.Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 2011Article
- Toward understanding protocell mechanosensation.Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 2011Review
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