Publications

Found 142 results
2019
B. Burcar, Castañeda, A., Lago, J., Daniel, M., Pasek, M. A., Hud, N. V., Orlando, T. M., and Menor-Salván, C., “A Stark Contrast to Modern Earth: Phosphate Mineral Transformation and Nucleoside Phosphorylation in an Iron- and Cyanide-Rich Early Earth Scenario”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 58, no. 47, pp. 16981 - 16987, 2019.
2018
S. C. Karunakaran, Cafferty, B. J., Peláez-Fernández, M., Neselu, K., Schmidt-Krey, I., Fernandez-Nieves, A., Schuster, G. B., and Hud, N. V., “Exquisite regulation of supramolecular equilibrium polymers in water: chain stoppers control length, polydispersity and viscoelasticity”, Polymer Chemistry, vol. 9, no. 43, pp. 5268 - 5277, 2018.
D. C. Okafor, Bowman, J. C., Hud, N. V., Glass, J. B., and Williams, L. Dean, “Folding and Catalysis Near Life’s Origin: Support for Fe2+ as a Dominant Divalent Cation”, in Prebiotic Chemistry and Chemical Evolution of Nucleic Acids, Springer International Publishing, 2018, pp. 227 - 243.
C. M. Runnels, Lanier, K. A., Williams, J. Krish, Bowman, J. C., Petrov, A. S., Hud, N. V., and Williams, L. Dean, “Folding, Assembly, and Persistence: The Essential Nature and Origins of Biopolymers”, Journal of Molecular Evolution, vol. 86, no. 9, pp. 598 - 610, 2018.
D. M. Fialho, Clarke, K. C., Moore, M. K., Schuster, G. B., Krishnamurthy, R., and Hud, N. V., “Glycosylation of a model proto-RNA nucleobase with non-ribose sugars: implications for the prebiotic synthesis of nucleosides”, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 1263 - 1271, 2018.
M. S. Bray, Lenz, T. K., Haynes, J. William, Bowman, J. C., Petrov, A. S., Reddi, A. R., Hud, N. V., Williams, L. Dean, and Glass, J. B., “Multiple prebiotic metals mediate translation”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 115, no. 48, pp. 12164 - 12169, 2018.
A. D. McKee, Solano, M., Saydjari, A., Bennett, C. J., Hud, N. V., and Orlando, T. M., “A Possible Path to Prebiotic Peptides Involving Silica and Hydroxy Acid-Mediated Amide Bond Formation”, ChemBioChem, vol. 19, no. 18, pp. 1913 - 1917, 2018.
N. V. Hud, “Searching for lost nucleotides of the pre-RNA World with a self-refining model of early Earth”, Nature Communications, vol. 9, 2018.
B. J. Cafferty, Fialho, D. M., and Hud, N. V., “Searching for Possible Ancestors of RNA: The Self-Assembly Hypothesis for the Origin of Proto-RNA”, in Prebiotic Chemistry and Chemical Evolution of Nucleic Acids, 3rd ed., Springer International Publishing, 2018, pp. 143 - 174.
2017
S. - S. Yu, Solano, M. D., Blanchard, M. K., Soper-Hopper, M. T., Krishnamurthy, R., Fernández, F. M., Hud, N. V., F. Schork, J., and Grover, M. A., “Elongation of Model Prebiotic Proto-Peptides by Continuous Monomer Feeding”, Macromolecules, vol. 50, no. 23, pp. 9286 - 9294, 2017.
D. C. Okafor, Lanier, K. A., Petrov, A. S., Athavale, S. S., Bowman, J. C., Hud, N. V., and Williams, L. Dean, “Iron mediates catalysis of nucleic acid processing enzymes: support for Fe(II) as a cofactor before the great oxidation event”, Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 45, no. 7, pp. 3634 - 3642, 2017.
N. Hud, “Our Odyssey to Find a Plausible Prebiotic Path to RNA: The First Twenty Years”, Synlett, vol. 28, no. 01, pp. 36 - 55, 2017.
T. K. Lenz, Norris, A. M., Hud, N. V., and Williams, L. Dean, “Protein-free ribosomal RNA folds to a near-native state in the presence of Mg 2+”, RSC Advances, vol. 7, pp. 54674 - 54681, 2017.
M. Gull, Cafferty, B., Hud, N., and Pasek, M., “Silicate-Promoted Phosphorylation of Glycerol in Non-Aqueous Solvents: A Prebiotically Plausible Route to Organophosphates”, Life, vol. 7, no. 3, p. 29, 2017.
J. G. Forsythe, Petrov, A. S., W. Millar, C., Yu, S. - S., Krishnamurthy, R., Grover, M. A., Hud, N. V., and ndez, F. M. á, “Surveying the sequence diversity of model prebiotic peptides by mass spectrometry”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 114, no. 37, pp. E7652 - E7659, 2017.
C. He, Gállego, I., Laughlin, B., Grover, M. A., and Hud, N. V., “A viscous solvent enables information transfer from gene-length nucleic acids in a model prebiotic replication cycle”, Nature Chemistry, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 318 - 324, 2017.
2016
B. Burcar, Pasek, M., Gull, M., Cafferty, B. J., Velasco, F., Hud, N. V., and Menor-Salván, C., “Darwin's Warm Little Pond: A One-Pot Reaction for Prebiotic Phosphorylation and the Mobilization of Phosphate from Minerals in a Urea-Based Solvent”, Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, vol. 55, no. 42, pp. 13249 - 13253, 2016.
C. Li, Cafferty, B. J., Karunakaran, S. C., Schuster, G. B., and Hud, N. V., “Formation of supramolecular assemblies and liquid crystals by purine nucleobases and cyanuric acid in water: implications for the possible origins of RNA”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 18, no. 30, pp. 20091 - 20096, 2016.
S. - S. Yu, Krishnamurthy, R., Fernández, F. M., Hud, N. V., F. Schork, J., and Grover, M. A., “Kinetics of prebiotic depsipeptide formation from the ester–amide exchange reaction”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 18, no. 41, pp. 28441 - 28450, 2016.
B. Gulen, Petrov, A. S., C. Okafor, D., Wood, D. Vander, Neill, E. B. ’, Hud, N. V., and Williams, L. Dean, “Ribosomal small subunit domains radiate from a central core”, Scientific Reports, vol. 6, p. 20885, 2016.
J. V. Gavette, Stoop, M., Hud, N. V., and Krishnamurthy, R., “RNA-DNA Chimeras in the Context of an RNA World Transition to an RNA/DNA World”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 55, no. 42, pp. 13204 - 13209, 2016.
B. J. Cafferty, Musetti, C., Kim, K., Horowitz, E. D., Krishnamurthy, R., and Hud, N. V., “Small molecule-mediated duplex formation of nucleic acids with ‘incompatible’ backbones”, Chem. Commun., vol. 52, no. 31, pp. 5436 - 5439, 2016.
B. J. Cafferty, Fialho, D. M., Khanam, J., Krishnamurthy, R., and Hud, N. V., “Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water”, Nature Communications, vol. 7, p. 11328, 2016.
2015
J. G. Forsythe, Petrov, A. S., Walker, C. A., Allen, S. J., Pellissier, J. S., Bush, M. F., Hud, N. V., and Fernández, F. M., “Collision cross section calibrants for negative ion mode traveling wave ion mobility-mass spectrometry.”, Analyst, vol. 140, no. 20, pp. 6853-61, 2015.
J. G. Forsythe, Yu, S. - S., Mamajanov, I., Grover, M. A., Krishnamurthy, R., Fernández, F. M., and Hud, N. V., “Ester-Mediated Amide Bond Formation Driven by Wet-Dry Cycles: A Possible Path to Polypeptides on the Prebiotic Earth.”, Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, vol. 54, no. 34, pp. 9871-5, 2015.

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