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Heteropolypeptides on Titan?

C N Matthews.   

Abstract

Since hydrogen cyanide is a component of Titan's hazy atmosphere, HCN polymers might also be present by way of a low energy pathway leading initially to the synthesis of polyaminomalonitrile. Subsequent reactions of HCN with the activated nitrile groups of this HCN homopolymer would then yield heteropolyamidines, readily converted to heteropolypeptides following contact with frozen water on the surface of Titan. Similar HCN polymers in the reducing atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn could be major contributors to the yellow-brown-orange appearance of these giant planets. Any detection of such HCN chemistry by the Voyager missions or the pending Galileo probe would constitute evidence for the hypothesis that heteropolypeptides on the primitive Earth were synthesized directly from hydrogen cyanide and water without the intervening formation of alpha-amino acids.

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Year:  1982        PMID: 6298684     DOI: 10.1007/bf00926899

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Orig Life        ISSN: 0302-1688


  10 in total

1.  The origin of proteins: Heteropolypeptides from hydrogen cyanide and water.

Authors:  C N Matthews
Journal:  Orig Life       Date:  1975 Jan-Apr

2.  Infrared observations of the saturnian system from voyager 1.

Authors:  R Hanel; B Conrath; F M Flasar; V Kunde; W Maguire; J Pearl; J Pirraglia; R Samuelson; L Herath; M Allison; D Cruikshank; D Gautier; P Gierasch; L Horn; R Koppany; C Ponnamperuma
Journal:  Science       Date:  1981-04-10       Impact factor: 47.728

3.  Deuterolysis of amino acid precursors: evidence for hydrogen cyanide polymers as protein ancestors.

Authors:  C Matthews; J Nelson; P Varma; R Minard
Journal:  Science       Date:  1977-11-11       Impact factor: 47.728

4.  Hydrolysis of aminoacetonitrile: peptide formation.

Authors:  R E Moser; C N Matthews
Journal:  Experientia       Date:  1968-07-15

5.  Peptide formation aminomalononitrile (HCN trimer).

Authors:  R E Moser; A R Claggett; C N Matthews
Journal:  Tetrahedron Lett       Date:  1968-02       Impact factor: 2.415

6.  Prebiological protein synthesis.

Authors:  C N Matthews; R E Moser
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  1966-10       Impact factor: 11.205

7.  Heteropolypeptides from poly-alpha-cyanoglycine and hydrogen cyanide: a model for the origin of proteins.

Authors:  R Minard; W Yang; P Varma; J Nelson; C Matthews
Journal:  Science       Date:  1975-10-24       Impact factor: 47.728

8.  Peptide synthesis from hydrogen cyanide and water.

Authors:  C N Matthews; R E Moser
Journal:  Nature       Date:  1967-09-16       Impact factor: 49.962

9.  Organic syntheses from CH4-N2 atmospheres: implications for Titan.

Authors:  F Raulin; D Mourey; G Toupance
Journal:  Orig Life       Date:  1982-09

10.  Formation of amino acids from models of Titan and more oxidized atmospheres.

Authors:  M Ishigami; M Kinjo; K Nagano; Y Hattori
Journal:  Orig Life       Date:  1982-09
  10 in total

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