Fossil and present-day stromatolite ooids contain a meteoritic polymer of glycine and iron
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| author | McGeoch, Julie E M Frommelt, Anton J Owen, Robin L Cinque, Gianfelice McClelland, Arthur Lageson, David McGeoch, Malcolm W |
| author_facet | McGeoch, Julie E M Frommelt, Anton J Owen, Robin L Cinque, Gianfelice McClelland, Arthur Lageson, David McGeoch, Malcolm W |
| contents | Hemoglycin, a space polymer of glycine and iron, has been identified in the carbonaceous chondritic meteorites Allende, Acfer 086, Kaba, Sutters Mill and Orgueil. Its core form has a mass of 1494Da and is basically an antiparallel pair of polyglycine strands linked at each end by an iron atom. The polymer forms two- and three- dimensional lattices with an inter-vertex distance of 4.9nm. Here the extraction technique for meteorites is applied to a 2.1Gya fossil stromatolite to reveal the presence of hemoglycin by mass spectrometry. Intact ooids from a recent (3,000Ya) stromatolite exhibited the same visible hemoglycin fluorescence in response to x-rays as an intact crystal from the Orgueil meteorite. X-ray analysis confirmed the existence in ooids of an internal 3-dimensional lattice of 4.9nm inter-vertex spacing, matching the spacing of lattices in meteoritic crystals. FTIR measurements of acid-treated ooid and a Sutters Mill meteoritic crystal both show the presence, via the splitting of the Amide I band, of an extended anti-parallel beta sheet structure. It seems probable that the copious in-fall of carbonaceous meteoritic material, from Archaean times onward, has left traces of hemoglycin in sedimentary carbonates and potentially has influenced ooid formation. |
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| spellingShingle | Fossil and present-day stromatolite ooids contain a meteoritic polymer of glycine and iron McGeoch, Julie E M Frommelt, Anton J Owen, Robin L Cinque, Gianfelice McClelland, Arthur Lageson, David McGeoch, Malcolm W Geophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Biomolecules Hemoglycin, a space polymer of glycine and iron, has been identified in the carbonaceous chondritic meteorites Allende, Acfer 086, Kaba, Sutters Mill and Orgueil. Its core form has a mass of 1494Da and is basically an antiparallel pair of polyglycine strands linked at each end by an iron atom. The polymer forms two- and three- dimensional lattices with an inter-vertex distance of 4.9nm. Here the extraction technique for meteorites is applied to a 2.1Gya fossil stromatolite to reveal the presence of hemoglycin by mass spectrometry. Intact ooids from a recent (3,000Ya) stromatolite exhibited the same visible hemoglycin fluorescence in response to x-rays as an intact crystal from the Orgueil meteorite. X-ray analysis confirmed the existence in ooids of an internal 3-dimensional lattice of 4.9nm inter-vertex spacing, matching the spacing of lattices in meteoritic crystals. FTIR measurements of acid-treated ooid and a Sutters Mill meteoritic crystal both show the presence, via the splitting of the Amide I band, of an extended anti-parallel beta sheet structure. It seems probable that the copious in-fall of carbonaceous meteoritic material, from Archaean times onward, has left traces of hemoglycin in sedimentary carbonates and potentially has influenced ooid formation. |
| title | Fossil and present-day stromatolite ooids contain a meteoritic polymer of glycine and iron |
| topic | Geophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Biomolecules |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17195 |