Year-Long Stability of Nucleic Acid Bases in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid: Implications for the Persistence of Organic Chemistry in Venus' Clouds.

NMR Venus nucleic acid bases sulfuric acid

Journal

Life (Basel, Switzerland)
ISSN: 2075-1729
Titre abrégé: Life (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101580444

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
23 Apr 2024
Historique:
received: 15 03 2024
revised: 14 04 2024
accepted: 20 04 2024
medline: 25 5 2024
pubmed: 25 5 2024
entrez: 25 5 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

We show that the nucleic acid bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and uracil, as well as 2,6-diaminopurine, and the "core" nucleic acid bases purine and pyrimidine, are stable for more than one year in concentrated sulfuric acid at room temperature and at acid concentrations relevant for Venus clouds (81%

Identifiants

DOI: 10.3390/life14050538 PMID: 38792560
pubmed: 38792560
pii: life14050538
doi: 10.3390/life14050538
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Subventions

Organisme : Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ID : 0000
Organisme : Nanoplanet Consulting LLC
ID : 0000

Auteurs

Sara Seager (S)

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Nanoplanet Consulting, Concord, MA 01742, USA.

Janusz J Petkowski (JJ)

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
JJ Scientific, 02-792 Warsaw, Poland.
Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1921-4848

Maxwell D Seager (MD)

Nanoplanet Consulting, Concord, MA 01742, USA.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.
ORCID: 0009-0009-1111-6854

John H Grimes (JH)

Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, 315 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1831-174X

Zachary Zinsli (Z)

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Heidi R Vollmer-Snarr (HR)

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Mohamed K Abd El-Rahman (MK)

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

David S Wishart (DS)

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
Department of Computing Science, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H1, Canada.
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H1, Canada.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3207-2434

Brian L Lee (BL)

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.

Vasuk Gautam (V)

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9204-1963

Lauren Herrington (L)

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

William Bains (W)

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, 4 The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK.
Rufus Scientific, Melbourn, Herts SG8 6ED, UK.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5503-3764

Charles Darrow (C)

Nanoplanet Consulting, Concord, MA 01742, USA.

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