Prebiotic metabolism: Production by mineral photoelectrochemistry of α-ketocarboxylic acids in the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle

Astrobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 833-842

  Guzman, Marcelo I ^a   Martin, Scot T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ALPHA-KETOGLUTARIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; MINERAL; PYRUVIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

BIOGENESIS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; LACTIC ACID; LIGHT; MINERALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PYRUVIC ACID;

EID: 72449157081     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2009.0356     Document Type: Article

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