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SUBMITTER: Campbell TD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6778215 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20191004 1
Wet-dry cycling is widely regarded as a means of driving condensation reactions under prebiotic conditions to generate mixtures of prospective biopolymers. A criticism of this model is its reliance on unpredictable rehydration events, like rainstorms. Here, we report the ability of deliquescent minerals to mediate the oligomerization of glycine during iterative wet-dry cycles. The reaction mixtures evaporate to dryness at high temperatures and spontaneously reacquire water vapor to form aqueous ...[more]