Synthetic BiologybioRxiv
Catalyzed Synthesis of Zinc Clays by Prebiotic Central Metabolites
Ruixin Zhou, Kaustuv Basu, Hyman Hartman…·Marcelo I Guzman
This study shows that succinate, a prebiotic metabolite, catalyzes the synthesis of clay minerals under conditions relevant to early Earth, linking prebiotic chemistry and geology.
DOI 10.1038/s41598-017-00558-1