ArticlePhilosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2020
Habitability of the marine serpentinite subsurface: a case study of the Lost City hydrothermal field.
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- Chemical Antiquity in Metabolism.Accounts of chemical research · 2024Article
- Ferredoxin reduction by hydrogen with iron functions as an evolutionary precursor of flavin-based electron bifurcation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Metagenome mining and functional analysis reveal oxidized guanine DNA repair at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field.PloS one · 2024Article
- A Review on Hypothesized Metabolic Pathways on Europa and Enceladus: Space-Flight Detection Considerations.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Linking Methanogenesis in Low-Temperature Hydrothermal Vent Systems to Planetary Spectra: Methane Biosignatures on an Archean-Earth-like Exoplanet.Astrobiology · 2023Article
- Serpentinization as the source of energy, electrons, organics, catalysts, nutrients and pH gradients for the origin of LUCA and life.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- Narrowing gaps between Earth and life.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Metabolic Strategies Shared by Basement Residents of the Lost City Hydrothermal Field.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
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- Role of geochemical protoenzymes (geozymes) in primordial metabolism: specific abiotic hydride transfer by metals to the biological redox cofactor NADThe FEBS journal · 2022Article
- Microbial ecology of a shallow alkaline hydrothermal vent: Strýtan Hydrothermal Field, Eyjafördur, northern Iceland.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The Lost City hydrothermal field is a dramatic example of the biological potential of serpentinization. Microbial life is prevalent throughout the Lost City chimneys, powered by the hydrogen gas and organic molecules produced by serpentinization and its associated geochemical reactions. Microbial life in the serpentinite subsurface below the Lost City chimneys, however, is unlikely to be as dense or active. The marine serpentinite subsurface poses serious challenges for microbial activity, including low porosities, the combination of stressors of elevated temperature, high pH and a lack of bioavailable ∑CO
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