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“Differential Oligomerization of Alpha versus Beta Amino Acids and Hydroxy Acids in Abiotic Proto-Peptide Synthesis Reactions”, Life, vol. 12, no. 2, p. 265, 2022.
, “Thioesters provide a plausible prebiotic path to proto-peptidesAbstract”, Nature Communications, vol. 13, no. 1, 2022.
, “Water-Based Dynamic Depsipeptide Chemistry: Building Block Recycling and Oligomer Distribution Control Using Hydration–Dehydration Cycles”, JACS Au, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 1395 - 1404, 2022.
, “Transition metals enhance prebiotic depsipeptide oligomerization reactions involving histidine”, RSC Advances, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 3534 - 3538, 2021.
, “Water and Life: The Medium is the Message”, Journal of Molecular Evolution, vol. 89, no. 1-2, pp. 2 - 11, 2021.
, “A blueprint for academic labs to produce SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR test kits”, Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 295, no. 46, pp. 15438-15453, 2020.
, “Mutually stabilizing interactions between proto-peptides and RNA”, Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020.
, “Selective incorporation of proteinaceous over nonproteinaceous cationic amino acids in model prebiotic oligomerization reactions”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 116, no. 33, pp. 16338 - 16346, 2019.
, “Folding and Catalysis Near Life’s Origin: Support for Fe2+ as a Dominant Divalent Cation”, in Prebiotic Chemistry and Chemical Evolution of Nucleic Acids, Springer International Publishing, 2018, pp. 227 - 243.
, “Folding, Assembly, and Persistence: The Essential Nature and Origins of Biopolymers”, Journal of Molecular Evolution, vol. 86, no. 9, pp. 598 - 610, 2018.
, “Multiple prebiotic metals mediate translation”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 115, no. 48, pp. 12164 - 12169, 2018.
, “Iron mediates catalysis of nucleic acid processing enzymes: support for Fe(II) as a cofactor before the great oxidation event”, Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 45, no. 7, pp. 3634 - 3642, 2017.
, “Protein-free ribosomal RNA folds to a near-native state in the presence of Mg 2+”, RSC Advances, vol. 7, pp. 54674 - 54681, 2017.
, “Ribosomal small subunit domains radiate from a central core”, Scientific Reports, vol. 6, p. 20885, 2016.
, “History of the ribosome and the origin of translation”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 112, no. 50, pp. 15396 - 15401, 2015.
, “The ribosome challenge to the RNA world.”, J Mol Evol, vol. 80, no. 3-4, pp. 143-61, 2015.
, “Evolution of the ribosome at atomic resolution.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 111, no. 28, pp. 10251-6, 2014.
, “Secondary structures of rRNAs from all three domains of life.”, PLoS One, vol. 9, no. 2, p. e88222, 2014.
, “In vitro secondary structure of the genomic RNA of satellite tobacco mosaic virus.”, PLoS One, vol. 8, no. 1, p. e54384, 2013.
, “Molecular paleontology: a biochemical model of the ancestral ribosome.”, Nucleic Acids Res, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 3373-85, 2013.
, “The origin of RNA and "My Grandfather's Axe".”, Chem Biol, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 466-74, 2013.
, “RNA with iron(II) as a cofactor catalyses electron transfer.”, Nat Chem, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 525-8, 2013.
, “Secondary structure and domain architecture of the 23S and 5S rRNAs.”, Nucleic Acids Res, vol. 41, no. 15, pp. 7522-35, 2013.
, “B-DNA structure is intrinsically polymorphic: even at the level of base pair positions.”, Nucleic Acids Res, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 3714-22, 2012.
, “Cations in charge: magnesium ions in RNA folding and catalysis.”, Curr Opin Struct Biol, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 262-72, 2012.
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