Mg2+-driven selection of natural phosphatidic acids in primitive membranes
Thaipurayil Madanan K., Li Y., Boide-Trujillo V. J., Russell D. A., Bonfio C. ChemRxiv (2024).
Ring opening of glycerol cyclic phosphates leads to a diverse array of potentially prebiotic phospholipids
Aleksandrova M., Rahmatova F., Russell D. A., Bonfio C.* Journal of the American Chemical Society (2023), 145, 25614-25620.
Bioenergetics of early life
Aleksandrova M., Bonfio C.* EMBO Reports (2022), e55679.
A possible path towards encoded protein synthesis on ancient Earth
Bonfio C.* Nature (2022), 605, 231-232, News&Views.
Activation chemistry drives the emergence of functionalised protocells
Bonfio C.*§, Russell D. A.§, Green N. J., Mariani A., Sutherland J. D. Chemical Science (2020), 11, 10688-10697.
Harnessing chemical energy for the activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks
Liu Z., Wu L., Xu J., Bonfio C., Russell D. A., Sutherland J. D. Nature Chemistry (2020), 12, 1023-1028.