Günter Wächtershäuser (1938 - )
Notable Accomplishments
The Iron-Sulfur World theory of Chemoautotrophic Origins
Publications
Wächtershäuser, Günter (1988a). "An All-Purine Precursor of Nucleic Acids" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 85 (4): 1134-1135. February 15, 1988. doi:10.1073/pnas.85.4.1134 . PMID 3422484 . PMC 279720 . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC279720/ .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (1988b). "Before Enzymes and Templates: Theory of Surface Metabolism" . Microbiological Reviews 52 (4): 452-484. December 1988. doi:10.1128/mr.52.4.452-484.1988 . PMID 3070320 . PMC 373159 . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC373159/ .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (1990a). "Evolution of the First Metabolic Cycles" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 87 (1): 200-204. January 1, 1990. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.1.200 . PMID 2296579 . PMC 53229 . https://www.pnas.org/content/87/1/200.long .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (1990b). "The Case For The Chemoautotrophic Origin Of Life In An Iron-Sulfur World" . Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 20 (2): 173-176. March 1990. doi:10.1007/BF01808279 . https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01808279 .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (1991). "Biomolecules: The Origin of Their Optical Activity" . Medical Hypotheses 36 (4): 307-311. December 1991. doi:10.1016/0306-9877(91)90001-f . PMID 1809848 . https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/030698779190001F?via%3Dihub .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (1992). "Groundworks for an Evolutionary Biochemistry: The Iron-Sulphur World" . Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology 58 (2): 85-201. doi:10.1016/0079-6107(92)90022-x . PMID 1509092 . https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/007961079290022X?via%3Dihub .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (1993). "The Cradle Chemistry of Life: On the Origin of Natural Products in a Pyrite-Pulled Chemoautotrophic Origin of Life" . Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) 65 (6): 1342-1348. doi:10.1351/pac199365061343 . https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1351/pac199365061343/html .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (1994). "Life In A Ligand Sphere" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 91 (10): 4283-4287. May 10, 1994. doi:10.1073/pnas.91.10.4283 . PMID 8183902 . PMC 43769 . https://www.pnas.org/content/91/10/4283.long .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (1997). "The Origin of Life and It´s Methodological Challenge" . Journal of Theoretical Biology 187 (4): 483-494. August 21, 1997. doi:10.1006/jtbi.1996.0383 . PMID 9299293 . https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022519396903835?via%3Dihub .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (2000). "Origin of Life. Life As We Don´t Know It" . Science 289 (5483): 1307-1308. August 25, 2000. doi:10.1126/science.289.5483.1307 . PMID 10979855 . https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.289.5483.1307 .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (2003). "From Pre-cells to Eukarya: A Tale of Two Lipids" . Molecular Microbiology 47 (1): 13-22. January 2003. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03267.x . PMID 12492850 . https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03267.x?sid=nlm%3Apubmed .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (2006). "From volcanic origins of chemoautotrophic life to Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya" . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences 361 (1474): 1787-1808. October 29, 2006. doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1904 . PMID 17008219 . PMC 1664677 . https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2006.1904?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed .
Wächtershäuser, Günter (2007). "On the Chemistry and Evolution of the Pioneer Organism" . Chemistry and Biodiversity 4 (4): 584-602. April 2007. doi:10.1002/cbdv.200790052 . PMID 17443873 . https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbdv.200790052 .
Blochl et al.
Borgeson et al.
Drobner et al.
Hafenbradl et al.
Hafenbradl, Doris; Keller, Martin; Dirmeier, Reinhard; Rachel, Reinhard; Rossnagel, Petra; Burggraf, Siegfried; Huber, Harald; Stetter, Karl O. (1996). "Ferroglobus placidus gen. nov., sp. nov., A Novel Hyperthermophilic Archaeum That Oxidizes Fe2+ at Neutral pH Under Anoxic Conditions" . Archives of Microbiology 166 (5): 308-314. November 28, 1996. doi:10.1007/s002030050388 . PMID 8929276 . https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs002030050388 .
Hafenbradl, Doris; Keller, Martin; Wächtershäuser, Günter; Setter, Karl O. (1995). "Primordial Amino Acids by Reductive Amination of Alpha-Oxo Acids in conjuction with the Oxidative Formation of Pyrite" . Tetrahedron Letters 36 (29): 5179-5182. July 17, 1995. doi:10.1016/0040-4039(95)01008-6 . https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0040403995010086 .
Huber et al.
Huber, Claudia; Eisenreich, Wolfgang; Hecht, Stefan; Wächtershäuser, Günter (2003). "A Possible Primordial Peptide Cycle" . Science 301 (5635): 938-940. August 15, 2003. doi:10.1126/science.1086501 . PMID 12920291 . https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1086501?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed& .
Huber, Claudia; Wächtershäuser, Günter (1997). "Activated Acetic Acid by Carbon Fixation on (Fe,Ni)S Under Primordial Conditions" . Science 276 (5310): 245-247. April 11, 1997. doi:10.1126/science.276.5310.245 . PMID 9092471 . https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.276.5310.245?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed .
Huber, Claudia; Wächtershäuser, Günter (1998). "Peptides By Activation of Amino Acids With CO on (Ni,Fe)S Surfaces: Implications for the Origin of Life" . Science 281 (5377): 670-672. July 31, 1998. doi:10.1126/science.281.5377.670 . PMID 9685253 . https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.281.5377.670?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed .
Huber, Claudia; Wächtershäuser, Günter (2003). "Primordial Reductive Amination Revisited" . Tetrahedron Letters 44 (8): 1695-1697. February 17, 2003. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(02)02863-0 . https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040403902028630 .
Keller et al.
Popper et al.
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