ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2017
Cryosphere and Psychrophiles: Insights into a Cold Origin of Life?
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- Psychrophiles: A journey of hope.Journal of biosciences · 2021Review
- Statistical Optimisation of Phenol Degradation and Pathway Identification through Whole Genome Sequencing of the Cold-Adapted Antarctic Bacterium,International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- The Structure of the Lipid A of Gram-Negative Cold-Adapted Bacteria Isolated from Antarctic Environments.Marine drugs · 2020Article
- Macrobiont: Cradle for the Origin of Life and Creation of a Biosphere.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Improved tolerance of Escherichia coli to oxidative stress by expressing putative response regulator homologs from Antarctic bacteria.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2020Article
- Microbial Markers Profile in Anaerobic Mars Analogue Environments Using the LDChip (Life Detector Chip) Antibody Microarray Core of the SOLID (Signs of Life Detector) Platform.Microorganisms · 2019Article
- A slow-cooling-rateJournal of applied crystallography · 2018Article
- Comet Pond II: Synergistic Intersection of Concentrated Extraterrestrial Materials and Planetary Environments to Form Procreative Darwinian Ponds.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Mechanochemistry of nucleosides, nucleotides and related materials.Beilstein journal of organic chemistry · 2018Review
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Abstract
Psychrophiles thrive permanently in the various cold environments on Earth. Their unsuspected ability to remain metabolically active in the most extreme low temperature conditions provides insights into a possible cold step in the origin of life. More specifically, metabolically active psychrophilic bacteria have been observed at -20 °C in the ice eutectic phase (i.e., the liquid veins between sea ice crystals). In the context of the RNA world hypothesis, this ice eutectic phase would have provided stability to the RNA molecules and confinement of the molecules in order to react and replicate. This aspect has been convincingly tested by laboratory experiments.
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