Water cycles in a Hadean CO2 atmosphere drive the evolution of long DNAAlan Ianeselli, Miguel Atienza, Patrick Kudella, Ulrich Gerland, Christof Mast & Dieter Braun, Nature Physics doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01516-z (2022)
LMU Press release New&Views: Mist and replication
Non-equilibrium conditions inside rock pores drive fission, maintenance and selection of coacervate protocellsAlan Ianeselli, Damla Tetiker, Julian Stein, Alexandra Kühnlein, Christof B. Mast, Dieter Braun & T.-Y. Dora Tang, Nature Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-021-00830-y (2021)
Heat flows in rock cracks naturally optimize salt compositions for ribozymesT. Matreux, K. Le Vay, A. Schmid, P. Aikkila, L. Belohlavek, A. Z. Çalışkanoğlu, E. Salibi, A. Kühnlein, C. Springsklee, B. Scheu, D. B. Dingwell, D. Braun, H. Mutschler, C. B. Mast, Nature Chemistry doi.org/10.1038/s41557-021-00772-5 (2021)
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Thermal Habitat for RNA Amplification and AccumulationAnnalena Salditt, Lorenz M. R. Keil, David P. Horning, Christof B. Mast, Gerald F. Joyce, and Dieter Braun
Physical Review Letters 125, 048104 (2020), doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.048104
Heated gas bubbles enrich, crystallize, dry, phosphorylate and encapsulate prebiotic moleculesM. Morasch, J. Liu, C.F. Dirscherl, A. Ianeselli, A. Kühnlein, K. Le Vay, P. Schwintek, S. Islam, M.K. Corpinot, B. Scheu, D.B. Dingwell, P. Schwille, H. Mutschler, M.W. Powner, C.B. Mast & D. Braun
Nature Chemistry (2019), doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0299-5
Periodic Melting of Oligonucleotides by Oscillating Salt Concentrations triggered by Microscale Water Cycles inside Heated Rock PoresAlan Ianeselli, Christof B. Mast and Dieter Braun
Angewandte Chemie (2019), doi.org/10.1002/ange.201907909
Optochemical disequilibrium to measure biomolecule chargeFriederike M. Möller, Michael Kieß, Christof Mast and Dieter Braun
Physical Review E 98, 062601 (2018) doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.062601
Proton Gradient and pH oscillations emerge from heat flow at the microscaleLorenz Keil, Friederike Möller, Michael Kieß, Patrick Kudella and Christof Mast
Nature Communication 8, 1897 (2017)
doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02065-3
Emergence of Life from Trapped Nucleotides? Non-Equilibrium Behavior of Oligonucleotides in Thermal GradientsEmil Dandanell Agerschou, Christof B. Mast and Dieter Braun Synlett (2017)
doi:10.1055/s-0036-1588653
Heat-Flow-Driven Oligonucleotide Gelation Separates Single-Base DifferencesMatthias Morasch, Dieter Braun, and Christof B. Mast
Angewandte Chemie (2016) doi:10.1002/anie.201603779
Dry polymerization of 3',5'-cyclic GMP to long strands of RNAMatthias Morasch, Christof Mast, Johannes Langer, Pierre Schilcher and Dieter Braun,
ChemBioChem 15, 879–883 (2014), doi: 10.1002/cbic.201300773
Übersichtsartikel: Lebendiges NichtgleichgewichtChristof Mast, Friederike M. Möller und Dieter Braun
Physik Journal 10, 29 (2013)[PDF]
RadioWissen broadcast on the Origin of Life [22Min.]
Escalation of Polymerization in a Thermal GradientChristof B. Mast, Severin Schink, Ulrich Gerland and Dieter Braun
PNAS 110, 8030-8035 (2013), doi:10.1073/pnas.1303222110 [PDF]
Beitrag im Deutschlandfunk
Thermal Solutions for Molecular EvolutionChristof B. Mast, Natan Osterman and Dieter Braun,
International Journal of Modern Physics B doi: 10.1142/S0217979212300174 (2012)
Optical Fluid and Biomolecule Transport with Thermal Fields [PDF]Franz M. Weinert, Christof B. Mast and Dieter Braun
PCCP doi 10.1039/C0CP02359K (2011)
Disequilibrium First: The Origin of LifeChristof B. Mast, Natan Osterman and Dieter Braun
Journal of Cosmology 10, 3305-3314 (2010)
Thermal Trap for DNA Replication [PDF]Christof B. Mast and Dieter Braun
Physical Review Letters 104, 188102 (2010)
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