| A hydrogen-dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism M Preiner, K Igarashi, KB Muchowska, M Yu, SJ Varma, K Kleinermanns, ... Nature ecology & evolution 4 (4), 534-542, 2020 | 207 | 2020 |
| The last universal common ancestor between ancient Earth chemistry and the onset of genetics MC Weiss, M Preiner, JC Xavier, V Zimorski, WF Martin PLoS Genetics 14 (8), e1007518, 2018 | 200 | 2018 |
| The future of origin of life research: bridging decades-old divisions M Preiner, S Asche, S Becker, HC Betts, A Boniface, E Camprubi, ... Life 10 (3), 20, 2020 | 138 | 2020 |
| Serpentinization: connecting geochemistry, ancient metabolism and industrial hydrogenation M Preiner, JC Xavier, FL Sousa, V Zimorski, A Neubeck, SQ Lang, ... Life 8 (4), 41, 2018 | 87 | 2018 |
| The ambivalent role of water at the origins of life A do Nascimento Vieira, K Kleinermanns, WF Martin, M Preiner FEBS letters 594 (17), 2717-2733, 2020 | 57 | 2020 |
| Native metals, electron bifurcation, and CO2 reduction in early biochemical evolution FL Sousa, M Preiner, WF Martin Current opinion in microbiology 43, 77-83, 2018 | 47 | 2018 |
| Catalysts, autocatalysis and the origin of metabolism M Preiner, JC Xavier, AN Vieira, K Kleinermanns, JF Allen, WF Martin Interface focus 9 (6), 20190072, 2019 | 46 | 2019 |
| Energy at origins: favorable thermodynamics of biosynthetic reactions in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) JLE Wimmer, JC Xavier, AN Vieira, DPH Pereira, J Leidner, FL Sousa, ... Frontiers in Microbiology 12, 793664, 2021 | 43 | 2021 |
| Ambient temperature CO2 fixation to pyruvate and subsequently to citramalate over iron and nickel nanoparticles T Beyazay, KS Belthle, C Farès, M Preiner, J Moran, WF Martin, H Tüysüz Nature Communications 14 (1), 570, 2023 | 31 | 2023 |
| Something special about CO‐dependent CO2 fixation JC Xavier, M Preiner, WF Martin The FEBS journal 285 (22), 4181-4195, 2018 | 30 | 2018 |
| The Autotrophic Core: An Ancient Network of 404 Reactions Converts H2, CO2, and NH3 into Amino Acids, Bases, and Cofactors JLE Wimmer, AN Vieira, JC Xavier, K Kleinermanns, WF Martin, M Preiner Microorganisms 9 (2), 458, 2021 | 28 | 2021 |
| Role of geochemical protoenzymes (geozymes) in primordial metabolism: specific abiotic hydride transfer by metals to the biological redox cofactor NAD+ DP Henriques Pereira, J Leethaus, T Beyazay, A do Nascimento Vieira, ... The FEBS Journal 289 (11), 3148-3162, 2022 | 23 | 2022 |
| Serpentinization as the source of energy, electrons, organics, catalysts, nutrients and pH gradients for the origin of LUCA and life L Schwander, M Brabender, N Mrnjavac, JLE Wimmer, M Preiner, ... Frontiers in Microbiology 14, 1257597, 2023 | 13 | 2023 |
| Ferredoxin reduction by hydrogen with iron functions as an evolutionary precursor of flavin-based electron bifurcation M Brabender, DP Henriques Pereira, N Mrnjavac, ML Schlikker, ZI Kimura, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (13), e2318969121, 2024 | 9 | 2024 |
| Life in a carbon dioxide world M Preiner, WF Martin Nature 592 (7856), 688-689, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
| Origin of life, theories of WF Martin, M Preiner Reference Module in Life Sciences, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| What it takes to solve the Origin (s) of Life: An integrated review of techniques S Asche, C Bautista, D Boulesteix, A Champagne-Ruel, C Mathis, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.11665, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
| Serpentinizing systems and hydrogen activation in early metabolism DPH Pereira, A do Nascimento Vieira, K Kleinermanns, WF Martin, ... Life 8, 41, 2021 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unraveling abiotic organic synthesis pathways in the mafic crust of mid-ocean ridges J Nan, X Peng, O Plümper, IC Ten Have, JG Lu, QB Liu, SL Li, Y Hu, Y Liu, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (43), e2308684121, 2024 | | 2024 |
| The dinucleotide structure of NAD enables specific reduction on mineral surfaces DP Henriques Pereira, X Xie, T Beyazay, N Paczia, Z Subrati, J Belz, ... bioRxiv, 2024.10. 11.617347, 2024 | | 2024 |
William MartinProfessor of Molecular Evolution, University of DüsseldorfVerified email at hhu.de
