Phosphorylation on the early earth

MA Pasek, M Gull, B Herschy - Chemical Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Phosphorus is an element critical to the formation of several biomolecules, including nucleic
acids, the energy transfer molecule ATP, and phospholipids. It hence lies at the heart of …

Prebiotic chemistry: a review of nucleoside phosphorylation and polymerization

X Guo, S Fu, J Ying, Y Zhao - Open Biology, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The phosphorylation of nucleosides and their polymerization are crucial issues concerning
the origin of life. The question of how these plausible chemical processes took place in the …

Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl phosphates with arylboronic acids

H Chen, Z Huang, X Hu, G Tang, P Xu… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The Suzuki− Miyaura cross-coupling of aryl phosphates using Ni (PCy3) 2Cl2 as an
inexpensive, bench-stable catalyst is described. Broad substrate scope and high efficiency …

Prebiotic phosphorylation reactions on the early Earth

M Gull - Challenges, 2014 - mdpi.com
Phosphorus (P) is an essential element for life. It occurs in living beings in the form of
phosphate, which is ubiquitous in biochemistry, chiefly in the form of COP (carbon, oxygen …

[HTML][HTML] Prebiotic formation of cyclic dipeptides under potentially early Earth conditions

J Ying, R Lin, P Xu, Y Wu, Y Liu, Y Zhao - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Cyclic dipeptides, also known as 2, 5-diketopiperazines (DKPs), represent the simplest
peptides that were first completely characterized. DKPs can catalyze the chiral selection of …

Beyond triphosphates: reagents and methods for chemical oligophosphorylation

SM Shepard, HJ Jessen… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Oligophosphates play essential roles in biochemistry, and considerable research has been
directed toward the synthesis of both naturally occurring oligophosphates and their synthetic …

A chemical phosphorylation-inspired design for Type I collagen biomimetic remineralization

L Gu, J Kim, YK Kim, Y Liu, SH Dickens, DH Pashley… - Dental Materials, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: Type I collagen alone cannot initiate tissue mineralization. Sodium
trimetaphosphate (STMP) is frequently employed as a chemical phosphorylating reagent in …

Prebiotic chemistry: the role of trimetaphosphate in prebiotic chemical evolution

D Gan, J Ying, Y Zhao - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Life's origins have always been a scientific puzzle. Understanding the production of
biomolecules is crucial for understanding the evolution of life on Earth. Numerous studies on …

Phosphorylation of plant virus proteins: Analysis methods and biological functions

X Zhuang, X Guo, T Gu, X Xu, L Qin, K Xu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Phosphorylation is one of the most extensively investigated post-translational modifications
that orchestrate a variety of cellular signal transduction processes. The phosphorylation of …

Phosphorylated chitosan to promote biomimetic mineralization of type I collagen as a strategy for dentin repair and bone tissue engineering

B Zheng, C Mao, T Gu, H Pan, C Shao, J Sun… - New Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, the hierarchical assembly of nanoapatite within a type I collagen matrix was
achieved through biomimetic mineralization in vitro using phosphorylated chitosan (Pchi) to …