Earth-Life Science Institute

Recent papers from Earth-Life Science Institute

1. The Dual Nature of RNA Ligation and Degradation by T4 RNA Ligase 1: Insights Into an AMP‐Driven, Nucleobase‐Dependent Reverse ReactionChemBioChem · 2026
2. Resolved structure and orbital motion of a localized 1 au-scale dust accumulation in the protoplanetary disk around TW HydraePublications of the Astronomical Society of Japan · 2026
3. ELSI Voices: Exploring how planets become habitable2026
4. Long‐Term Performance and Bulk‐Isotope Effects in Methane Clumped‐Isotope Measurements Using a 253 Ultra HR‐IRMSRapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry · 2026
5. Global Long-wavelength Body-wave Catalog (GLoBoCat) for Lower Mantle P and S Wave Travel TimesSeismica · 2026
6. Potential for large igneous province volcanism to drive transient atmospheric deoxygenation in the PaleoproterozoicEarth and Planetary Science Letters · 2026
7. ELSI Voices: Understanding life through energy flow2026
8. Primitive Basic Amino Acids Promote Mineral-Catalyzed Electrochemical Reduction of H ⁺ and CO ₂The Journal of Physical Chemistry C · 2026
9. Elucidating the Bell-Shaped Dependence of Protein Translation Activity on EF-Tu Concentration in a Reconstituted Cell-Free System Using a Mechanistic ModelACS Synthetic Biology · 2026
10. Unconventional water and hydrous mineral formation from dry minerals and H ₂ fluidsScience Advances · 2026
11. Massive Cultivation of Methanococcus maripaludis Enabled by Optimized Ni, Se, and Nitrogen SupplyACS Omega · 2026
12. In Vitro Evolution of the Adenosine A 2A Receptor Based on an Antagonist Binding Using a Ribosome DisplayJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
13. Impact of Reducing Agents on Protein Synthesis in a Reconstituted Cell-Free Protein Synthesis SystemACS Synthetic Biology · 2026
14. Enzyme as Maxwell’s Demon: Steady-State Deviation from Chemical Equilibrium by Enhanced Enzyme DiffusionPhysical Review Letters · 2025
15. Nickel Incorporation into Fresh Iron Sulfide Precipitates Modulates Selectivity in Nitrite, Carbon Dioxide, and Proton ReductionInorganic Chemistry · 2025
16. Nickel Incorporation into Fresh Iron Sulfide Precipitates Modulates Selectivity in Nitrite, Carbon Dioxide, and Proton ReductionInorganic Chemistry · 2025
17. Carbon Reduction Powered by Natural Electrochemical Gradients under Submarine Hydrothermal Vent ConditionsJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
18. Optimization of Malonyl Coenzyme A Biosensors in a Reconstituted Cell-Free System for Detecting Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase ActivityACS Synthetic Biology · 2025
19. Methanol-Driven, One-Pot Chemoenzymatic S-Adenosylmethionine Regeneration for Ambient Cobalamin-Dependent Methyltransferase ReactionsACS Catalysis · 2025
20. Single-subunit RNA polymerases, KpnP, Ro45Iw, and CD23823, with precise terminal synthesisJournal of Biological Chemistry · 2025