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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Accelerated peptide bond formation at air-water interfaces.

Deming Xia, Fanqi Zeng, Wanting Chen, Hui Zhao, Hong-Bin Xie, Jingwen Chen, Joseph S Francisco

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Origins of the Intrinsic Redox Activity of Biomolecular Condensates.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Deming XiaKey Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian Key Laboratory on Chemicals Risk Control and Pollution Prevention Technology, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4877-0058
Fanqi ZengKey Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian Key Laboratory on Chemicals Risk Control and Pollution Prevention Technology, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
Wanting ChenState Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
Hui ZhaoKey Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian Key Laboratory on Chemicals Risk Control and Pollution Prevention Technology, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
Hong-Bin XieKey Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian Key Laboratory on Chemicals Risk Control and Pollution Prevention Technology, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
Jingwen ChenKey Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), Dalian Key Laboratory on Chemicals Risk Control and Pollution Prevention Technology, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5756-3336
Joseph S FranciscoDepartment of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6316.ORCID 0000-0002-5461-1486

Funding

MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 22206019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peptides and proteins, essential components of living organisms, are composed of amino acids linked by peptide bonds. However, the mechanism of peptide bond formation during the prebiotic era remains unclear. In this study, advanced Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) simulations were used to investigate the mechanisms and kinetics of peptide bond formation at air-water interfaces using diglycine, the simplest dipeptide, as a model molecule. The results show that peptide bonds can be rapidly formed via a unique isomerization-then-OH

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AirDipeptidesPeptidesWaterKineticsMolecular Dynamics SimulationOrigin of LifeThermodynamicsDipeptidesPeptidesWaterair–water Interfacemicrodropletpeptide formation

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PMID40117307
PMCPMC11962484

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