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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2018

Primitive Photosynthetic Architectures Based on Self-Organization and Chemical Evolution of Amino Acids and Metal Ions.

Kai Liu, Xiaokang Ren, Jianxuan Sun, Qianli Zou, Xuehai Yan

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Anion-π interaction-induced phase separation as a prebiotic pathway to oxygenation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Metal-Coordinated Supramolecular Self-Assemblies for Cancer Theranostics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2021
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  5. Self-assembly of amino acids toward functional biomaterials.Beilstein journal of nanotechnology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kai LiuState Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences 100190 Beijing China.ORCID 0000-0002-8233-2310
Xiaokang RenState Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences 100190 Beijing China.
Jianxuan SunState Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences 100190 Beijing China.
Qianli ZouState Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences 100190 Beijing China.ORCID 0000-0003-0464-4156
Xuehai YanState Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences 100190 Beijing China.ORCID 0000-0002-0890-0340
Institute of Process Engineering · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of light-energy-utilizing metabolism is likely to be a critical milestone in prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life. However, how the primitive pigment is spontaneously generated still remains unknown. Herein, a primitive pigment model based on adaptive self-organization of amino acids (Cystine, Cys) and metal ions (zinc ion, Zn

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amino acidschemical evolutionphotosynthetic architecturesprimitive pigmentsself‐organization

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PMID29938179
PMCPMC6010005
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