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  • Zajkowski, T., Lee, M. D., Sharma, S., Vallota‐Eastman, A., Kuska, M., Malczewska, M., & Rothschild, L. J. (2023). Conserved functions of prion candidates suggest a primeval role of protein self‐templating. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics. doi: 10.1002/prot.26558.pdf 
  • Ditzler, M. A., Popović, M., & Zajkowski, T. (2022). From building blocks to cells. In New Frontiers in Astrobiology (pp. 111-133). Elsevier. pdf
  • Wei, C., & Pohorille, A. (2021). Fast Bilayer-micelle Fusion Mediated by Hydrophobic Dipeptides. Biophysical Journal. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.04.012
  • Pohorille, A., & Wilson, M. A. (2021). Computational Electrophysiology from a Single Molecular Dynamics Simulation and the Electrodiffusion Model. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125(12), 3132-3144.
  • Wilson, M. A., & Pohorille, A. (2021). Electrophysiological Properties from Computations at a Single Voltage: Testing Theory with Stochastic Simulations. Entropy, 23(5), 571.  pdf
  • Zajkowski, T., Lee, M.D., Mondal, S.S., Carbajal, A., Dec, R., Brennock, P.D., Piast, R.W., Snyder, J.E., Bense, N.B., Dzwolak, W. and Jarosz, D.F. (2021). The hunt for ancient prions: archaeal prion-like domains form amyloid-based epigenetic elements. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(5), pp.2088-2103. pdf
  • Reyes, S.G., Kuruma, Y., Fujimi, M., Yamazaki, M., Eto, S., Nishikawa, S., Tamaki, S., Kobayashi, A., Mizuuchi, R., Rothschild, L. and Ditzler, M., & Fujishima, K. (2021). PURE mRNA display and cDNA display provide rapid detection of core epitope motif via high-throughput sequencing. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2021; 118: 1702– 1715.  doi: 10.1002/bit.27696. pdf
  • Popović, M., Ellingson, A. Q., Chu, T. P., Wei, C., Pohorille, A., & Ditzler, M. A. (2021). In vitro selections with RNAs of variable length converge on a robust catalytic core. Nucleic acids research, 49(2), 674-683.  pdf
  • Rios, A.C., Bera, P., Moreno, J.M., & Cooper, G. (2020) Pyruvate Aldol Condensation Product: A Metabolite that Escaped Synthetic Preparation for Over a Century. ACS OMEGA, pdf
  • Sandford, S. A., Nuevo, M., Bera, P. P., & Lee, T. J. (2020). Prebiotic Astrochemistry and the Formation of Molecules of Astrobiological Interest in Interstellar Clouds and Protostellar Disks. Chemical Reviews  120, 11, 4616–4659.
  • Weber, A. L., & Rios, A. C. (2019). Imidazolium-Catalyzed Synthesis of an Imidazolium Catalyst. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 1-13.
  • ​Plebanek, A., Larnerd, C., Popović, M., Wei, C., Pohorille, A., & Ditzler, M. A. (2019). Big on Change, Small on Innovation: Evolutionary Consequences of RNA Sequence Duplication. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 1-14.   pdf
  • Milshteyn, D., Cooper, G., & Deamer, D. (2019). Chemiosmotic energy for primitive cellular life: Proton gradients are generated across lipid membranes by redox reactions coupled to meteoritic quinones. Scientific reports, 9(1), 1-12.  pdf
  • Cooper, G., Yim, S., Lanoiselée, J., Sorden, S., & Ramirez, F. G. (2019). The baseline resolution of Aldo-monosaccharide enantiomers: Simplified GC–MS analyses using acetal-trifluoroacetyl derivatives for complex samples. Journal of Chromatography B, 121761. 
  • Nuevo, M., Cooper, G., & Sandford, S. A. (2018). Deoxyribose and deoxysugar derivatives from photoprocessed astrophysical ice analogues and comparison to meteorites. Nature Communications, 9(1), 5276.   pdf
  • Materese, C. K., Nuevo, M., McDowell, B. L., Buffo, C. E., and & Sandford, S. A.  (2018).  The Photochemistry of Purine in Ice Analogs Relevant to Dense Interstellar Clouds.  Astrophys. J. 864, 44 (6 pp)  DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad328
  • Cooper, G., Rios, A., & Nuevo, M. (2018). Monosaccharides and their derivatives in carbonaceous meteorites: A scenario for their synthesis and onset of enantiomeric excesses. Life, 8(3), 36.   pdf
  • Forsythe, J. G., English, S. L., Simoneaux, R. E., & Weber, A. L. (2018). Synthesis of β-Peptide Standards for Use in Model Prebiotic Reactions.  Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 48(2), 201-211. 
  • Fujishima, K., Wang, K. M., Palmer, J. A., Abe, N., Nakahigashi, K., Endy, D., & Rothschild, L. J. (2018). Reconstruction of cysteine biosynthesis using engineered cysteine-free enzymes.  Scientific reports, 8(1), 1776.   pdf
  • Pohorille, A., Wilson, M. A., & Shannon, G. (2017). Flexible proteins at the origin of life.  Life, 7(2), 23.   pdf
  • Wei, C., & Pohorille, A. (2017). Sequence-Dependent Interfacial Adsorption and Permeation of Dipeptides across Phospholipid Membranes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121(42), 9859-9867. 
  • Materese, C. K.,  Nuevo, M., and Sandford, S. A. (2017) “The Formation of Nucleobases from the Ultraviolet Photoirradiation of Purine in Simple Astrophysical Ice Analogues”, Astrobiology 17, 761–770 
  • Bera, P.P., Nuevo, M., Materese, C.K., Sandford, S.A., and Lee, T.J. (2016) “Mechanisms for the formation of thymine under astrophysical conditions and implications for the origin of life,”, Journal of Chem. Phys., 144, 144308, doi: 10.1063/1.4945745
  • Cooper, G., & Rios, A. C. (2016). Enantiomer excesses of rare and common sugar derivatives in carbonaceous meteorites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(24), E3322-E3331. pdf
  • Stephenson, J. D., Popović, M., Bristow, T.F., & Ditzler, M. A. (2016). Evolution of ribozymes in the presence of a mineral surface. RNA 22: 1893-1901.    pdf
  • Kaddi, C. D., Bennett, R. V., Paine, M. R. L., Banks, M. D., Weber, A. L., Fernández, F. M. (2016) DetectTLC: Automated reaction mixture screening utilizing quantitative mass spectrometry image features. Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry 27: 359-365.   pdf
  • Pohorille, A., Wilson, M. A., & Wei, C. (2016). Validity of the electrodiffusion model for calculating conductance of simple ion channels. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121(15), 3607-3619. 
  • Popović, M., Fliss, P. S., Ditzler, M. A. (2015). In vitro evolution of distinct self-cleaving ribozymes in diverse environments. Nucleic Acids Res. 43 (14): 7070-7082.   pdf
  • Sandford, S. A., Bera, P. P., Lee, T. J., Materese, C. K., Nuevo, M. (2015)  “Photosynthesis and Photo-Stability of Nucleic Acids in Prebiotic Extraterrestrial Environments”, Chapter 14 of Topics of Current Chemistry, Vol. 356, Photoinduced Phenomena in Nucleic Acids II, eds. Barbatti, M., Borin, A.C., Ullrich, S. (Springer Verlag: Berlin), 123
  • Rios, A. C. (2015). Impact synthesis of the RNA bases.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(3), 643-644.   pdf
  • Wei, C., & Pohorille, A. (2015). M2 proton channel: toward a model of a primitive proton pump.  Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 45(1-2), 241-248. 
  • Clairmont, R. M., Bommarius, A. S., & Weber, A. L. (2015). Imidazolium Catalysts Formed by an Iterative Synthetic Process as a Model System for Chemical Evolution.  Journal of Molecular Evolution, 81(1-2), 1-9. 
  • Fujishima, K., Venter, C., Wang, K., Ferreira, R., & Rothschild, L. J. (2015). An overhang-based DNA block shuffling method for creating a customized random library.  Scientific reports, 5, 9740.   pdf
  • Summers, D. P., & Rodoni, D. (2015). Vesicle encapsulation of a nonbiological photochemical system capable of reducing NAD+ to NADH.  Langmuir, 31(39), 10633-10637. 
  • Wilson, M. A., & Pohorille, A. (2015). Calculating Conductance of Ion Channels–Linking Molecular Dynamics and Electrophysiology. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 574, No. 1, p. 012009). IOP Publishing. 
  • Cooper, G., Horz, F., Spees, A., & Chang, S. (2014). Highly stable meteoritic organic compounds as markers of asteroidal delivery.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 385, 206-215. 
  • Wei, C., & Pohorille, A. (2014). Flip-flop of oleic acid in a phospholipid membrane: rate and mechanism. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 118(45), 12919-12926. 
  • Comer, J., Gumbart, J. C., Hénin, J., Lelièvre, T., Pohorille, A., & Chipot, C. (2014). The adaptive biasing force method: Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119(3), 1129-1151. 
  • Wilson, M. A., Nguyen, T. H., & Pohorille, A. (2014). Combining molecular dynamics and an electrodiffusion model to calculate ion channel conductance. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 141(22), 12B619_1. 
  • Saha, R., Pohorille, A., & Chen, I. A. (2014). Molecular crowding and early evolution.  Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 44(4), 319-324. 
  • Wilson, M. A., Wei, C., & Pohorille, A. (2014). Towards co-evolution of membrane proteins and metabolism.  Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 44(4), 357-361. 
  • Nuevo, M., Materese, C.K., Sandford, S.A. (2014)  “The Photochemistry of Pyrimidine in Realistic Astrophysical Ices and the Production of Nucleobases”, Astrophys. J., 793, 125
  • Nuevo, M., Chen, Y.J., Hu, W.J., Qiu, J.M., Wu, S.R., Fung, H.S., Yih, T.S., Ip, W.H., Wu, C.Y.R. (2014) “Photo-irradiation of pyrimidine in pure H₂O ice with high-energy ultraviolet photons”, Astrobiology, 14, 119
  • Sandford, S.A., Bera, P.P., Lee, T.J., Materese, C.K., Nuevo, M. (2014) “Photosynthesis and Photo-Stability of Nucleic Acids in Prebiotic Extraterrestrial Environments”, in Topics of Current Chemistry, Chapter 14 of the book Photoinduced Phenomena in Nucleic Acids, eds. Barbatti, M., Borin, A.C., Ullrich, S. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg), 499
  • Materese, C.K., Nuevo, M., Bera, P.P., Lee, T.J., Sandford, S.A. (2013) “Thymine and other prebiotic molecules produced from the ultraviolet photo-irradiation of pyrimidine in simple astrophysical ice analogs”, Astrobiology, 13, 948 
  • Wei, C., & Pohorille, A. (2013). Permeation of aldopentoses and nucleosides through fatty acid and phospholipid membranes: implications to the origins of life.  Astrobiology, 13(2), 177-188. 
  • Wei, C., & Pohorille, A. (2013). Activation and proton transport mechanism in influenza A M2 channel. Biophysical Journal, 105(9), 2036-2045.   pdf
  • Pohorille, A. (2012). Processes that Drove the Transition from Chemistry to Biology: Concepts and Evidence.  Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 42(5), 429-432. 
  • Pohorille, A., & Pratt, L. R. (2012). Is water the universal solvent for life?.  Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 42(5), 405-409. 
  • Summers, D. P., Basa, R. C., Khare, B., & Rodoni, D. (2012). Abiotic nitrogen fixation on terrestrial planets: Reduction of NO to ammonia by FeS.  Astrobiology, 12(2), 107-114. 
  • Summers, D. P. (2012). The prebiotic chemistry of nitrogen and the origin of life. In Genesis-In The Beginning  (pp. 201-216). Springer, Dordrecht. 
  • Ciesla, F.J., Sandford, S.A. (2012) “Organic Synthesis via Irradiation and Warming of Ice Grains in the Solar Nebula”, Science, 336, 452
  • Nuevo, M., Milam, S.N., Sandford, S.A. (2012) “Nucleobases and Prebiotic Molecules in Organic Residues Produced from the Ultraviolet Photo-Irradiation of Pyrimidine in NH₃ and H₂O+NH₃ Ices”, Astrobiology, 12, 295
  • de Marcellus, P., Meinert, C., Nuevo, M., Filippi, J.J., Danger, G., Deboffle, D., Nahon, L., Le Sergeant d’Hendecourt, L., Meierhenrich, U.J. (2011) “Non-racemic amino acid production by UV irradiation of achiral interstellar ice analogs with circularly polarized light”, Astrophys. J. Lett., 727, L27 
  • de Marcellus, P., Bertrand, M., Nuevo, M., Westall, F., Le Sergeant d’Hendecourt, L. (2011) “Prebiotic significance of extraterrestrial ice photochemistry: Detection of hydantoin in organic residues”, Astrobiology, 11, 847
  • Cooper, G., Reed, C., Nguyen, D., Carter, M., & Wang, Y. (2011). Detection and formation scenario of citric acid, pyruvic acid, and other possible metabolism precursors in carbonaceous meteorites.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(34), 14015-14020.   pdf
  • Wei, C., & Pohorille, A. (2011). Permeation of nucleosides through lipid bilayers.  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115(13), 3681-3688. 
  • Wilson, M. A., Wei, C., Bjelkmar, P., Wallace, B. A., & Pohorille, A. (2011). Molecular dynamics simulation of the antiamoebin ion channel: linking structure and conductance. Biophysical Journal, 100(10), 2394-2402.   pdf
  • Bera, P.B., Nuevo, M., Milam, S.N., Sandford, S.A., Lee, T.J. (2010) “Mechanism for the abiotic synthesis of uracil via UV-induced oxidation of pyrimidine in pure H₂O ices under astrophysical conditions”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 133, 104303
  • Nuevo, M., Milam, S.N., Sandford, S.A., Elsila, J.E., Dworkin, J.P. (2009) “Formation of Uracil from the UV Photo-Irradiation of Pyrimidine in Pure H₂O Ices”, Astrobiology, 9, 7, 683
  • Pohorille, A., Jarzynski, C., & Chipot, C. (2010). Good practices in free-energy calculations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114(32), 10235-10253. 
  • Sandford, S.A., Bajt, S., Clemett, S.J., Cody, G.D., Cooper, G., Degregorio, B.T., de Vera, V., Dworkin, J.P., Elsila, J.E., Flynn, G.J. and Glavin, D.P (2010). Assessment and control of organic and other contaminants associated with the Stardust sample return from comet 81P/Wild 2.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 45(3), 406-433.   pdf
  • Deamer, D., & Weber, A. L. (2010). Bioenergetics and life’s origins.  Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2(2), a004929.   pdf
  • Pizzarello, S., & Weber, A. L. (2010). Stereoselective syntheses of pentose sugars under realistic prebiotic conditions.  Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 40(1), 3. 
  • Weber, A. L. (2010). Sugar-driven prebiotic synthesis of ammonia from nitrite.  Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 40(3), 245-252. 
  • Rothschild, L. J. (2010). A powerful toolkit for synthetic biology: over 3.8 billion years of evolution.  Bioessays, 32(4), 304-313. 
  • Henin, J., Pohorille, A., & Chipot, C. (2010). Insights into the Recognition and Association of Transmembrane alpha-Helices. The Free Energy of alpha-helix Dimerization in Glycophorin A (vol 127, pg 8478, 2005). Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(27), 9510-9510. 
  • Cooper, G., Sant, M., & Asiyo, C. (2009). Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry resolution of sugar acid enantiomers on a permethylated β-cyclodextrin stationary phase.  Journal of Chromatography A, 1216(40), 6838-6843. 
  • Pohorille, A., & Deamer, D. (2009). Self-assembly and function of primitive cell membranes.  Research in microbiology, 160(7), 449-456. 
  • Wei, C., & Pohorille, A. (2009). Permeation of membranes by ribose and its diastereomers.  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131(29), 10237-10245. Weber
  • Summers, D. P., Noveron, J., & Basa, R. C. (2009). Energy transduction inside of amphiphilic vesicles: encapsulation of photochemically active semiconducting particles.  Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 39(2), 127-140.  
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