Zachary R. Cohen

Prebiotic amino acids bind to and stabilize prebiotic fatty acid membranes

Caitlin E. Cornell, Roy A. Black, Mengjun Xue et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · 112 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Biology +16

Growth of Prebiotically Plausible Fatty Acid Vesicles Proceeds in the Presence of Prebiotic Amino Acids, Dipeptides, Sugars, and Nucleic Acid Components

Zoe R. Todd, Zachary R. Cohen, David C. Catling et al. · Langmuir · 2022 · 34 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +13

Binding of Dipeptides to Fatty Acid Membranes Explains Their Colocalization in Protocells but Does Not Select for Them Relative to Unjoined Amino Acids

Mengjun Xue, Roy A. Black, Zachary R. Cohen et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 2021 · 20 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +17

Prebiotic Protocell Membranes Retain Encapsulated Contents during Flocculation, and Phospholipids Preserve Encapsulation during Dehydration

Zachary R. Cohen, Caitlin E. Cornell, David C. Catling et al. · Langmuir · 2022 · 18 citations

Natural Sciences, Biophysics, Cell Biology +15

Natural soda lakes provide compatible conditions for RNA and membrane function that could have enabled the origin of life

Zachary R. Cohen, Dian Ding, Lijun Zhou et al. · PNAS Nexus · 2024 · 10 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +8