Pyrolysis of simple amino acids and nucleobases: Survivability limits and implications for extraterrestrial delivery

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 577-584

  Basiuk, Vladimir A ^a   Douda, Janna ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS NUCLEARES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000276255     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(98)00136-6     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Anders, E., 1989. Pre-biotic organic matter from comets and asteroids. Nature 342, 255-257.
2. Basiuk, V.A., Navarro-González, R., 1995. Dust in the Universe: Implications for terrestrial prebiotic chemistry. Origins Life Evol. Biosphere 25, 457-493.
3. Basiuk, V.A., Navarro-González, R., 1997. Identification of hexahydroimidazo[1,2-a]pyrazine-3,6-diones and hexahydroimidazo[1,2-a]imidazo[1,2-d]pyrazine-3,8-diones, unusual products of silica-catalyzed amino acid thermal condensation and products of their thermal decomposition using coupled high-performance liquid chromatography-particle beam mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy-mass spectrometry. J. Chromatogr. 776, 255-273.
4. Basiuk, V.A., Navarro-González, R., 1998. Pyrolytic behavior of amino acids and nucleic acid bases: Implications for their survival during extraterrestrial delivery. Icarus 134, 269-278.
5. Basiuk, V.A., Gromovoy, T.Yu., Chuiko, A.A., Soloshonok, V.A., Kukhar, V.P., 1992. A novel approach to the synthesis of symmetric optically active 2,5-dioxopiperazines. Synthesis, 449-451.
6. Basiuk, V.A., Navarro-González R., Basiuk, E.V., 1998. Behavior of amino acids when volatilized in the presence of silica gel and pulverized basaltic lava. Origins Life Evol. Biosphere 28, 167-193.
7. Bonner, W.A., 1991. The origin and amplification of biomolecular chirality. Origins Life Evol. Biosphere 21, 59-111.
8. Bradley, J.P., Brownlee, D.E., Fraundorf, P., 1984. Discovery of nuclear tracks in interplanetary dust. Science 226, 1432-1434.
9. Briggs, R., Ertem, G., Ferris, J.P., Greenberg, J.M., McCain, P.J., Mendoza-Gomez, C.X., Schutte, W., 1992. Comet Halley as an aggregate of interstellar dust and further evidence for the photochemical formation of organics in the interstellar medium. Origins Life Evol. Biosphere 22, 287-307.
10. Christoffersen, R., Buseck, P.R., 1983. Epsilon carbide: A low-temperature component of interplanetary dust particles. Science 222, 1327-1329.
11. Chyba, C.F., 1990. Extraterrestrial amino acids and terrestrial life. Nature 348, 113-114.
12. Chyba, C.F., 1993. The violent environment of the origin of life: Progress and uncertainties. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 57, 3351-3358.
13. Chyba, C.F., Sagan, C., 1992. Endogenous production, exogenous delivery, and impact-shock synthesis of organic molecules: An inventory for the origins of life. Nature 355, 125-132.
14. Chyba, C.F., Sagan, C., 1997. Comets as a source of prebiotic organic molecules for the early Earth. In: Thomas, P.J., Chyba, C.F., McKay, C.P. (Eds.), Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life. Springer, New York, pp. 147-173.
15. Chyba, C.F., Thomas, P.J., Brookshaw, L., Sagan, C., 1990. Cometary delivery of organic molecules to the Early Earth. Science 249, 366-373.
16. Chyba, C.F., Owen, T.C., Ip, W.-H., 1995. Impact delivery of volatiles and organic molecules to Earth. In: Gehrels, T. (Ed.), Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 9-58.
17. Cronin, J.R., 1989. Origin of organic compounds in carbonaceous chondrites. Adv. Space Res. 9, (2)59-(2)64.
18. Cronin, J.R., Moore, C.B., 1971. Amino acid analyses of the Murchison, Murray, and Allende carbonaceous chondrites. Science 172, 1327-1329.
19. Cronin, J.R., Pizzarello, S., 1983. Amino acids in meteorites. Adv. Space Res. 3, 5-18.
20. Cronin, J.R., Pizzarello, S., 1997. Enantiomeric excesses in meteoritic amino acids. Science 275, 951-955.
21. Cronin, J.R., Gandy, W.E., Pizzarello, S., 1980. Amino acids of the Murchison meteorite. In: Hare, P.E. (Ed.), Biogeochemistry of Amino Acids. Wiley, New York, p. 153.
22. Engel, M.H., Macko, S.A., 1997. Isotopic evidence for extraterrestrial non-racemic amino acids in the Murchison meteorite. Nature 389, 265-268.
23. Esser, B.K., Turekian, K.K., 1988. Accretion rate of extraterrestrial particles determined from osmium isotope systematics of Pacific pelagic clay and manganese nodules. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 52, 1383-1388.
24. Greenberg, J.M., 1989. Synthesis of organic compounds in interstellar dust and their transport to Earth via comets. Adv. Space Res. 9, (6)15-(6)23.
25. Greenberg, J.M., Hage, J.I., 1990. From interstellar dust to comets: A unification of observational constraints. Astrophys. J. 361, 260-274.
26. 25 chances enough? In: Chela-Flores, J., Raulin, F. (Eds.), Chemical Evolution: Physics of the Origin and Evolution of Life. Kluwer, Dordrecht, p. 51.
27. Greenberg, J.M., Mendoza-Gómez, C.X., 1992. The seeding of life by comets. Adv. Space Res. 12, (4)169-(4)180.
28. Greenberg, J.M., Remo, J.L., 1997. Comets as porous aggregates of interstellar dust. In: Remo, J.L. (Ed.), Near-Earth Objects. The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, pp. 96-117.
29. Greenberg, J.M., Kouchi, A., de Groot, M., Hermsen, W., Niessen, W., Irth, H., van Paradijs, J., 1994. Interstellar dust, chirality, comets and the origins of life: Life from dead stars? J. Biol. Phys. 20, 61-70.
30. Gross, D., Grodsky, G., 1955. On the sublimation of amino acids and peptides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 77, 1678-1680.
31. Holland, H.D., 1984. The Chemical Evolution of the Atmosphere and Oceans. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
32. Hunten, D.M., Turco, R.P., Toon, O.B., 1980. Smoke and dust particles of meteoric origin in the mesosphere and stratosphere. J. Atmos. Sci. 37, 1342-1357.
33. Irwin, W.J., 1982. Analytical Pyrolysis. A Comprehensive Guide. Marcel Dekker, New York.
34. Jessberger, E.K., Christoforidis, A., Kissel, J., 1988. Aspects of the major element composition of Halley's dust. Nature 332, 691-695.
35. Kasting, J.F., 1990. Bolide impacts and the oxidation state of carbon in the Earth's early atmosphere. Origins Life Evol. Biosphere 20, 199-232.
36. Kasting, J.F., 1993. Earth's early atmosphere. Science 259, 920-926.
37. 4 on early Earth surface temperatures. J. Geophys. Res. 92, 2991-2998.
38. Kissel, J., Krueger, F.R., 1987. The organic component in dust from comet Halley as measured by the PUMA mass spectrometer on board Vega 1. Nature 326, 755-760.
39. Kobayashi, K., Kasamatsu, T., Kaneko, T., Koike, J., Oshima, T., Saito, T., Yamamoto, T., Yanagawa, H., 1995. Formation of amino acid precursors in cometary ice environments by cosmic radiation. Adv. Space Res. 16(2), 21-26.
40. Kotra, R.K., Shimoyama, A., Ponnamperuma, C., Hare, P.E., 1979. Amino acids in a carbonaceous chondrite from Antarctica. J. Mol. Evol. 13, 179-184.
41. Kurat, G., Koeberl, C., Presper, T., Brändstatter, F., Maurette, M., 1994. Petrology and geochemistry of Antarctic micrometeorites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 58, 3879-3904.
42. Kvenvolden, K., Lawless, J., Pering, K., Peterson, E., Flores, J., Ponnamperuma, C., Kaplan, I.R., Moore, C., 1970. Evidence for extraterrestrial amino-acids and hydrocarbons in the Murchison meteorite. Nature 228, 923-926.
43. Kvenvolden, K.A., Lawless, J.G., Ponnamperuma, C., 1971. Nonprotein amino acids in the Murchison meteorite. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 68, 486-490.
44. Kyte, F.T., Wasson, J.T., 1986. Accretion rate of extraterrestrial matter: Iridium deposited 33 to 67 million years ago. Science 232, 1225-1229.
45. Lawless, J.G., Kvenvolden, K.A., Peterson, E., Ponnamperuma, C., Moore, C., 1971. Amino acids indigenous to the Murray meteorite. Science 173, 626-627.
46. Love, S.G., Brownlee, D.E., 1991. Heating and thermal transformations of micrometeoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere. Icarus 89, 26-43.
47. Love, S.G., Brownlee, D.E., 1993. A direct measurement of the terrestrial mass accretion rate of cosmic dust. Science 262, 550-553.
48. Mackinnon, I.D.R., Rietmeijer, F.J.M., 1984. Bismuth in interplanetary dust. Nature 311, 135-138.
49. Mackinnon, I.D.R., Rietmeijer, F.J.M., 1987. Mineralogy of chondritic interplanetary dust particles. Revs. Geophys. 25, 1527-1553.
50. Mason, B. (Ed.), 1971. Handbook of Elemental Abundances in Meteorites. Gordon and Breach, New York.
51. Maurette, M., 1998. Carbonaceous micrometeorites and the origin of life. Origins Life Evol. Biosphere 28, 385-412.
52. Maurette, M., Immel, G., Perreau, M., Pourchet, M., Vincent, C. and Kurat, G., 1992. The 1991 Euromet collection of micrometeorites at Cap-Prudhomme, Antarctica: discussion of possible collection biases. Lunar Planet. Sci. 23, 859-860.
53. Maurette, M., Brack, A., Kurat, G., Perreau, M., Engrand, C., 1995. Were micrometeorites a source of prebiotic molecules on the early Earth? Adv. Space Res. 15, (3)113-(3)126.
54. Meuzelaar, H.L.C., Haverkamp, J., Hileman, F.D., 1982. Pyrolysis Mass Spectrometry of Recent and Fossil Biomaterials. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
55. Oberbeck, V.R., McKay, C.P., Scattergood, T.W., Carle, G.C., Valentin, J.R., 1989. The role of cometary particle coalescence in chemical evolution. Origins Life Evol. Biosphere 19, 39-55.
56. Oró, J., 1961. Comets and the formation of biochemical compounds on the primitive Earth. Nature 190, 389-390.
57. Peterson, E., Horz, F., Chang, S., 1997. Modification of amino acids at shock pressures of 3.5 to 32 GPa. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61, 3937-3950.
58. Ponnamperuma, C., 1972. Organic compounds in the Murchison meteorite. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 194, 56-70.
59. Ratcliff, M.A., Medley, E.E., Simmonds, P.G., 1974. Pyrolysis of amino acids. Mechanistic considerations. J. Org. Chem. 39, 1481-1490.
60. Rietmeijer, F.J.M., Mackinnon, I.D.R., 1985a. Poorly graphitized carbon as a new cosmothermometer for primitive extraterrestrial materials. Nature 315, 733-736.
61. Rietmeijer, F.J.M., Mackinnon, I.D.R., 1985b. Layer silicates in a chondritic porous interplanetary dust particle. J. Geophys. Res. 90, suppl., D149-D155.
62. Rye, R., Kuo, P.H., Holland, H.D., 1995. Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations before 2.2 billion years ago. Nature 378, 603-605.
63. Sagan, C., Chyba, C., 1997. The early faint Sun paradox: organic shielding of ultraviolet-labile greenhouse gases. Science 276, 1217-1221.
64. Sagan, C., Mullen, G., 1972. Earth and Mars: Evolution of atmospheres and surface temperatures. Science 177, 52-56.
65. Sears, D.W., 1975. Temperature gradients in meteorites produced by heating during atmospheric passage. Modern Geol. 5, 155-164.
66. Shimoyama, A., Ponnamperuma, C., Yanai, K., 1979. Amino acids in the Yamato carbonaceous chondrite from Antarctica. Nature 282, 394-396.
67. Simmonds, P.O., Medley, E.E., Ratcliff, M.A., Shulman, G.P., 1972. Thermal decomposition of aliphatic monoamino-monocarboxylic acids. Anal. Chem. 44, 2060-2066.
68. Steel, D., 1992. Cometary supply of terrestrial organics: Lessons from the K/T and the present epoch. Origins Life Evol. Biosphere 21, 339-357.
69. Stoker, C.R., Bullock, M.A., 1997. Organic degradation under simulated Martian conditions. J. Geophys. Res. - Planets 102, 10,881-10,888.
70. Stoks, P., Schwartz, A.W., 1979. Uracil in carbonaceous meteorites. Nature 282, 709-710.
71. Stoks, P., Schwartz, A.W., 1981. Nitrogen-heterocyclic compounds in meteorites: Significance and mechanism of formation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 45, 563-569.
72. Thomas, P.J., Brookshaw, L., 1997. Numerical models of comet and asteroid impacts. In: Thomas, P.J., Chyba, C.F., McKay, C.P. (Eds.), Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life. Springer, New York, pp. 131-146.
73. Van der Velden, W., Schwartz, A.W., 1977. Search for purines and pyrimidines in the Murchison meteorite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 41, 961-968.
74. Walker, J.C.G., 1986. Carbon dioxide on the early Earth. Origins Life 16, 117-127.
75. Wasson, J.T., 1985. Meteorites: Their Record of Early Solar System History. Freeman, New York.
76. Whittet, D.C.B., 1997. Is extraterrestrial organic matter relevant to the origin of life on Earth? Origins Life Evol. Biosphere 27, 249-262.
77. Yanson, I.D., Teplitsky, A.B., 1975. Heats of sublimation of crystals of organic compounds. J. Phys. Chem. U.S.S.R. 49, 428-429.
78. Zahnle, K., Grinspoon, D., 1990. Comet dust as a source of amino acids at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. Nature 348, 157-159.
79. Zolensky, M.E., Mackinnon, I.D.R., 1985. Accurate stratospheric particle size distributions from a flat plate collection surface. J. Geophys. Res. 90, 5801-5808.