Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Geoelectrochemistry-driven alteration of amino acids to derivative organics in carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies

  • Yamei Li,
  • Norio Kitadai,
  • Yasuhito Sekine,
  • Hiroyuki Kurokawa,
  • Yuko Nakano,
  • Kristin Johnson-Finn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32596-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Researchers at Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) discovered a chemical process that can explain the very low amino acid abundances in aqueously altered carbonaceous chondrites, deepening our understanding on the Solar System chemical evolution.