Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35454999›Full record

ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2022

New Signatures of Bio-Molecular Complexity in the Hypervelocity Impact Ejecta of Icy Moon Analogues.

Surendra V Singh, Haritha Dilip, Jaya K Meka, Vijay Thiruvenkatam, Vishakantaiah Jayaram, Mariyappan Muruganantham, Vijayan Sivaprahasam, Balabhadrapatruni N Rajasekhar, Anil Bhardwaj, Nigel J Mason and 2 more

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Surendra V SinghPhysical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009, India.ORCID 0000-0001-5982-8433
Haritha DilipIndian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar 382355, India.ORCID 0000-0002-7739-8200
Jaya K MekaPhysical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009, India.ORCID 0000-0003-0022-4226
Vijay ThiruvenkatamIndian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar 382355, India.ORCID 0000-0003-1044-7626
Vishakantaiah JayaramIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
Mariyappan MurugananthamPhysical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009, India.
Vijayan SivaprahasamPhysical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009, India.ORCID 0000-0002-1028-8074
Balabhadrapatruni N RajasekharBhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India.ORCID 0000-0002-0038-8768
Anil BhardwajPhysical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009, India.ORCID 0000-0003-1693-453X
Nigel J MasonSchool of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, UK.
Mark J BurchellSchool of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2680-8943
Bhalamurugan SivaramanPhysical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009, India.
Physical Research Laboratory · INIndian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar · INUniversity of Kent · GBBhabha Atomic Research Centre · INIndian Institute of Science Bangalore · IN

Funding

Royal Society The Royal Society International Exchange Programme
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Impact delivery of prebiotic compounds to the early Earth from an impacting comet is considered to be one of the possible ways by which prebiotic molecules arrived on the Earth. Given the ubiquity of impact features observed on all planetary bodies, bolide impacts may be a common source of organics on other planetary bodies both in our own and other solar systems. Biomolecules such as amino acids have been detected on comets and are known to be synthesized due to impact-induced shock processing. Here we report the results of a set of hypervelocity impact experiments where we shocked icy mixtures of amino acids mimicking the icy surface of planetary bodies with high-speed projectiles using a two-stage light gas gun and analyzed the ejecta material after impact. Electron microscopic observations of the ejecta have shown the presence of macroscale structures with long polypeptide chains revealed from LCMS analysis. These results suggest a pathway in which impact on cometary ices containing building blocks of life can lead to the synthesis of material architectures that could have played a role in the emergence of life on the Earth and which may be applied to other planetary bodies as well.

Indexed as

amino acidsastrobiologyicy moonsimpact ejectapolypeptides

Identifiers

PMID35454999
PMCPMC9026792
OpenAlexW4220936162

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.