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Fougerite: the not so simple progenitor of the first cells

Published:2019-10-18 Issue:6 Volume:9 Page:20190063
ISSN:2042-8898
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Author:

Duval Simon¹^ORCID,Baymann Frauke¹,Schoepp-Cothenet Barbara¹,Trolard Fabienne²,Bourrié Guilhem²,Grauby Olivier³,Branscomb Elbert⁴^ORCID,Russell Michael J.⁵,Nitschke Wolfgang¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, BIP (UMR 7281), Marseille, France

2. EMMAH (UMR 1114), INRA, Avignon, France

3. Aix Marseille Université, CINaM (UMR 7325), Luminy, France

4. Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

5. NASA Astrobiology Institute, Ames Research Center, CA, USA

Abstract

We here review the extraordinary mineralogical properties of green rusts and their naturally occurring form, fougerite, and discuss the pertinence of these properties within the alkaline hydrothermal vent (AHV) hypothesis for life's emergence. We put forward an extended version of the AHV scenario which enhances the conformity between extant life and its earliest progenitor by extensively making use of fougerite's mechanistic and catalytic particularities.

Funder

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

NASA Astrobiological Institute

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

Biomedical Engineering,Biomaterials,Biochemistry,Bioengineering,Biophysics,Biotechnology

Link

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0063

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