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- who: Claudia Bonfio and colleagues from the University of Trento, via Sommarive, Povo, Italy have published the research: UV light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron-sulfur clusters, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: The authors show that UV light drives the synthesis of_[2Fe-2S] and_[4Fe-4S] clusters through the photooxidation of ferrous ions and the photolysis of organic thiols. The experiments described above exploited glutathione as a model prebiotic tripeptide to stabilize the iron-sulfur clusters.
- how: The same result was obtained in the absence (Fig 2a) and presence (Supplementary Fig S5a . . .
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