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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Year-Long Stability of Nucleic Acid Bases in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid: Implications for the Persistence of Organic Chemistry in Venus' Clouds.

Sara Seager, Janusz J Petkowski, Maxwell D Seager, John H Grimes, Zachary Zinsli, Heidi R Vollmer-Snarr, Mohamed K Abd El-Rahman, David S Wishart, Brian L Lee, Vasuk Gautam and 3 more

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Peptides adopt stable omega-loop structures in concentrated sulfuric acid.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Warm, water-depleted rocky exoplanets with surface ionic liquids: A proposed class for planetary habitability.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. The diversity of exoplanetary environments and the search for signs of life beyond Earth.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Sara SeagerDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Janusz J PetkowskiDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1921-4848
Maxwell D SeagerNanoplanet Consulting, Concord, MA 01742, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-1111-6854
John H GrimesComplex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1831-174X
Zachary ZinsliDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Heidi R Vollmer-SnarrDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Mohamed K Abd El-RahmanDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
David S WishartDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3207-2434
Brian L LeeDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
Vasuk GautamDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9204-1963
Lauren HerringtonDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
William BainsDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5503-3764
Charles DarrowNanoplanet Consulting, Concord, MA 01742, USA.

Funding

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 0000Nanoplanet Consulting LLC 0000
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We show that the nucleic acid bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and uracil, as well as 2,6-diaminopurine, and the "core" nucleic acid bases purine and pyrimidine, are stable for more than one year in concentrated sulfuric acid at room temperature and at acid concentrations relevant for Venus clouds (81%

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NMRnucleic acid basessulfuric acidVenus

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PMID38792560
PMCPMC11121801

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