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Onofri , S., Moeller, R., Billi, D., Balsamo, M., Becker, A., Benvenuto, E., Cassaro, A., Catanzaro, I., Cockell, C.S., Desiderio, A., Ellis, T., Gonzáles-Pastor, JE., Hahn, C., Leys, N., Leo, P., Maurel, M-C., Pacelli, C., Pavletic, B., Ripa, C., Rothschild, L.J., Surdo, L. (2025). Synthetic biology for space exploration, Nature npj Microgravity. 11, 41. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-025-00488-7
Décout, J-L, Maurel, M-C. (2025) Purine chemistry in the early RNA world at the origins of life. From RNA and nucleobases lesions to current key metabolic routes? ChemBioChem, https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202500035 .
Percot, A., Maurel, M-C., Lambert, J-F., Zins, E-L (2024). New insights into the Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) response of adenine using chemometrics. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2024.124177
Percot, A.; Mahieddine, F.; Yano, H.; Hasegawa, S.; Tabata, M.; Yamagishi, A.; Mita, H.; Paredes-Arriaga, A.; Maurel, M.-C.; Lambert, J.-F.; et al. (2024). Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for Identifying Traces of Adenine in Organic-Bearing Extraterrestrial Dust Analogs Captured in the Tanpopo Aerogel after Hypervelocity Impacts. Gels,10, (4) 249. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/gels10040249
Maurel, M-C (2024) Jean-Claude Carrière et les sciences de la vie, pp 91-93. Sous la direction de Jean Audouze et Delphine Bürkli. L'Etincelle nomade éditions. Paris
Deamer, David & Maurel, Marie-Christine. (2023). Viruses, Viroids and the Origins of Life. DOI : 10.1002/9781394264155.ch5. in The First Steps of Life. Wiley (pp.99-115).
Jean-François Lambert, Louis M. P. Ter-Ovanessian & Marie-Christine Maurel. (2023). Studies in Mineral‐Assisted Protometabolisms. DOI 10.1002/9781394264155.ch9. in The First Steps of Life. Wiley (pp.193-215).
Marie-Christine Maurel et Christophe Malaterre, Pour La Science "Il était une fois la Vie" . https://www.pourlascience.fr/sr/entretien/le-mot-vie-est-un-peu-un-bouche-trou-faute-de-mieux-25458.php. Juillet 2023.
Ter-Ovanessian, L. M. P., Lambert, J-F. , Maurel, M-C. (2023). Ring-closure on the Rocks in a Prebiotic Environment. ChemBioChem 2023, e202300143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202300143
Ter-Ovanessian, L. M. P., Lambert, J-F., Maurel, M-C. (2022). Building the uracil skeleton in primitive ponds at the origins of life: carbamoylation of aspartic acid. Scientific Reports, 12:19178 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21272-7
Kawamura, K.; Lambert, J.-F.; Ter-Ovanessian, L.M.P.; Vergne, J.; Hervé, G.; Maurel, M.-C. (2022). Life on minerals: Binding behaviors of oligonucleotides on zirconium silicate and its inhibitory activity for the self-cleavage of Hammerhead Ribozyme, Life, 12, 1689. https://doi.org/10.3390/ life12111689.
Kawamura, K.; Ogawa, M.; Konagaya, N.; Maruoka, Y.; Lambert, J.-F.; Ter-Ovanessian, L.M.P.; Vergne, J.; Hervé, G.; Maurel, M.-C. (2022). A High-Pressure, High-Temperature Flow Reactor Simulating the Hadean Earth Environment, with Application to the Pressure Dependence of the Cleavage of Avocado Viroid Hammerhead Ribozyme. Life 12,1224. https://doi.org/10.3390/ life12081224
Maurel , M-C (2022) Qui sommes-nous ? https://fr.calameo.com/read/004260307d32ab9bf350a
Maurel , M-C (2022). Entre analogies et différences. En (une) quête d’Autres dis-semblables…. http://openscience.fr/Arts-et-sciences,
DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2022.0792
Ter-Ovanessian, L. M. P., Rigaud, B., Mezzetti, A., Lambert, J-F., Maurel, M-C (2021). Carbamoyl phosphate and its substitutes for the uracil synthesis in origins of life scenarios. Scientific Reports, S 11, 19356. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98747-6
Kaddour, H., Lucchi, H., Hervé G., Vergne, J., Maurel, M-C (2021). Kinetic Study of the Avocado Sunblotch Viroid Self-Cleavage Reaction Reveals Compensatory Effects between High-Pressure and High-Temperature: Implications for Origins of Life on Earth, Biology, 10 (8), 720; https://doi.org/10.3390/biology1008072
Maurel, M-C (2021), Ar(t)chemistry of nature : The Living - Ar(t)chimie de la nature : Le vivant. http://openscience.fr/Arts-et-sciences DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0704
Scheps, R, Maurel, M-C (2021), An introduction in Mathematics in the Visual Arts, ISTE Ltd, London and Wiley, New York.
Maurel, M-C., Leclerc, F., Hervé, G. (2020), Ribozyme Chemistry : To be or not to be under high pressure. Chem. Rev., 120, 11, 4898–4918. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00457
Maurel, M-C. (2020), Les viroïdes, vestiges du monde ARN à la frontière du vivant ? L'actualité Chimique, N° 455, 41-44
Maurel, M-C. (2020) Traces et indices possibles des premières formes de vie, in L’explosion des formes de vie, ISTE-WILEY, London. pp 5-21.
Percot, A.; Zins, E.-L.; Al Araji, A.; Ngo, A.-T.; Vergne, J.; Tabata, M.; Yamagishi, A.; Maurel, M.-C. (2019), Detection of Biological Bricks in Space. The Case of Adenine in Silica Aerogel. Life, 9, 82. doi:10.3390/life9040082
Mariscal, C., Barahona, A., Aubert-Kato, N., Aydinoglu, A.U., Bartlett, S., Cárdenas, ML., Chandru, K., Cleland, C., Cocanougher, B.T., Comfort, N., Cornish-Bowden, A., Deacon, T., Froese, T., Giovannelli, D., Hernlund, J., Hut, P., Kimura, J., Maurel, M-C., Merino, N., Moreno, A., Nakagawa, M., Peretó, J., Virgo, N., Witkowski, O., CleavesII, H.J. (2019), Hidden Concepts in the History and Philosophy of Origins-of-Life Studies. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. vol 49, pp 1–35.
Maurel, M-C., Lambert, J-F. (2019). Naissance de la vie sur des argiles, Catalogue de l'exposition "Les formes du Vivant", Musée de la Céramique, Limoges.
Maurel, M-C., Leclerc F., Vergne J., Zaccai G., (2019). RNA Back and Forth: Looking Through Ribozyme and Viroid Motifs. Viruses, 11,(3), 283 ; https://dx.doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0564.v1 ; https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/3/283/pdf
Hui Bon Hoa, G., Kruglik, S.G., Maurel , M-C. (2019). “Impacts of the Extreme Conditons of Environments on RNA’s structure and function from the Avocado Sunblotch Viroid : Applicaton of NIR-Raman Spectroscopy and ad hoc Baro-Bio-Reactor”. Acta Scientific Microbiology 2.9 (2019): 167-184.
Pérez-Villa, A., Saitta, A. M., Georgelin, T., Lambert, J.-F., Guyot, F., Maurel, M. C., & Pietrucci, F. (2018). Synthesis of RNA nucleotides in plausible prebiotic conditions from ab initio Computer Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 9, 4981–4987. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02077
Maurel, M. C. (2018). À la frontière du vivant : les viroïdes. The Conversation - Chronique « En direct des espèces », On line.
Maurel, M. C., & Cassé, M. (2018). La vie a chevauché les météores. Prochain arrêt : xénobiologie. The Conversation.
Steger, G., Riesner, D., Maurel M-C, Perreault, J-P. Viroid Structure. In: Ahmed Hadidi, Ricardo Flores, John W. Randles and Peter Palukaitis, editors, Viroids and Satellites. Oxford: Academic Press, (2017), pp. 63-70. ISBN: 978-0-12-801498-1
Maurel M-C, (2017). « Reflections on Origins, Life, and the Origins of Life ». Losch, A. (Ed.) – What is Life ? Cambridge University Press. pp. 13-29.
Akouche, M., Jaber, M., Maurel, M-C., Lambert J-F., Georgelin, T. (2017), Phosphoribosyl Pyrophosphate: A Molecular Vestige of the Origin of Life on Minerals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition Volume 56, Issue 27, June 26, Pages: 7920–7923, .
Kawamura, K. et Maurel, M-C. (2017). Walking over 4Gya : Chemical Evolution from Photochemistry to Mineral and Organic Chemistries Leading to an RNA World. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres (OLEB). DOI 10.1007/s11084-017-9537-2
Zaccai, G., Maurel, M.C., Yonath, A.(2017). "The fluctuating RNA" "Sciences de la vie et sciences de l’information “ Ed. Thierry Gaudin, Dominique Lacroix, Marie-Christine Maurel et Jean-Charles Pomerol, 400 pages, ISTE Editions, Londres., 2016
Misuraca L., Natali F., da Silva L., Peters J., Demé B., Ollivier J., Seydel T., Laux-Lesourd V., Haertlein M., Zaccai G., Deamer D., Maurel M.C. (2017). Mobility of a Mononucleotide within a Lipid Matrix : A Neutron Scattering Study. Life, 7, 2. Available at : http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/7/1/2
Zaccai, G. Natali, F. Peters, J., Řihová, M., Zimmerman, E., Ollivier, J. Combet, J., Maurel, M-C., Bashan, A., & Yonath, A. (2016). The fluctuating ribosome: thermal molecular dynamics characterized by neutron scattering. Scientific Reports 6, 37138 doi:10.1038/srep37138
Leclerc, F. , Zaccai, G., Vergne, J., Řìhovà, M., Martel, A. & Maurel, M-C. (2016). Self-assembly Controls Self-cleavage of HHR from ASBVd (−): a Combined SANS and Modeling Study. Scientific Reports, 6:30287 | DOI: 10.1038/srep30287
Maurel, M-C. et Leclerc, F. (2016). From Foundation Stones to Life : Concepts and Results. Elements. 12, 407-412
Latifi, A., Bernard,C., da Silva, L., Andéol, Y., Elleuch, A., Risoul, V., Vergne, J., Maurel, M-C. (2016) Replication of Avocado Sunblotch Viroid in the cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. PCC 7120. J Plant Pathol Microbiol 7: 341. Doi :10.4172/2157-7471.1000341
Da Silva, L., Maurel, M-C., Deamer, D. (2015) Salt-Promoted Synthesis of RNA-like Molecules in Simulated Hydrothermal Conditions. J. Mol Evol. 80:86–97
Georgelin, T., Akouche, M., Fournier, F., Zins, E.-L., Jaber, M., Maurel, M.-C., Lambert. J.-F. (2015) Stabilisation of Ribofuranose by a mineral surface. Carbohydrate Research, 402, 241–244
Maurel, M-C. Origine et développement de la vie sur Terre : rôle de l'eau. In L'eau à découvert, CNRS éditions, 2015.
Kawamura, K., da Silva, L., Ogawa, M., Konagaya, N. Maurel, M-C. (2015). Verification of chemical evolution of RNA under hydrothermal environments on the primitive Earth. EDP Sciences- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20150400011
Maurel, M-C. (2015). From neonts to filionts and their progenies - Biodiversity draws its origins from the origins of life itself. EDP Sciences- DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20150400014
Maurel, M-C. Quels sont les éléments indispensables à la vie ? Textbook Biochimie. N. Latruffe. Dunod, Ed. 2015
Vergne, J. Cottin, H., Da Silva, L., Brack, A., Chaput, D., Maurel, M.-C. The AMINO experiment: RNA stability under solar radiation studied on the EXPOSER facility of the International Space Station. International Journal of Astrobiology, 2015, 14:99-103
Cottin et al. The AMINO experiment: a laboratory for astrochemistry and astrobiology on the EXPOSE-R facility of the International Space Satation, International Journal of Astrobiology, 2015, 14:67-77
Maurel, M.-C. (2014) From ancient to modern RNA worlds and vice versa : looking through viroid and ribozyme motifs. In Gabriel Trueba (eds) Why does evolution matters? The importance of understanding evolution (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne), 119-133.
Kaddour, H., Vergne, J., Hervé, G., and Maurel, M-C. (2014) Inhibition by polyamines of the hammerhead ribozyme from a Chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid. Biochem. Biophys. Acta, 1840, 1670-1675.
Hui-Bon-Hoa, G., Kaddour, H., Vergne, J., Kruglik, S.G and Maurel, M-C. (2014) Raman spectroscopic characterization of avocado sunblotch viroid: Structural response to external perturbations and self-cleavage activity. BMC Biophysics, 7:2, 2-15.
Delan-Forino,C., Deforges, J., Benard, L., Sargueil, B., Maurel, M-C., Torchet , C. (2014) Structural and functional analyses of Avocado sunblotch viroid reveal differences in the folding of the plus and minus RNA strands. Viruses, 6, 489-506.
Olasagasti, F., Maurel, M.-C. and Deamer, D.W. (2014) Physico-chemical interactions between compartment-forming lipids and other prebiotically relevant biomolecules, EDP Sciences, 2014, 05001-pp1-10. Published online: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20140205001
Ollivier, M. and Maurel, M-C. (2014) Environments and Origins of Life: How to reinvent the study of Origins of life on the Earth and Life in the Universe under the light of exoplanetology progress. EDP Sciences, Online. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20140200001
Maurel, M-C. propos recueillis par A. Vernet. Aux frontières du vivant, la formation des premières biomolécules. BIOFUTUR, Juillet 2013, 39-42
Maurel, M-C. N° spécial Les Origines de la vie, La Recherche, Février 2013.
El-Murr,N., Maurel, M-C , Rihova, M., Vergne, J., Hervé, G., Kato, M. and Kawamura, K. (2012) Behavior of a hammerhead ribozyme in aqueous solution at medium to high temperatures. Naturwissenschaften. 99:731–738
Kaddour, H., Vergne, J., Hervé, G., and Maurel, M-C. (2011) High-pressure analysis of a hammerhead ribozyme from Chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid reveals two different populations of self-cleaving molecule. FEBS Journal ; 278, 3739–3747.
Delan-Forino,C., Maurel, M-C., Torchet, C. (2011) Replication of Avocado Sunblotch Viroid in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Virology, 85(7):3229-38.
Maurel, M-C. (2010) Looking for Life elsewhere : A Biologist's Perspective. Pathways Towards Habitable Planets. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference series. Vol 430, 331-335.
Buck, J., Li YL, Richter, C., Vergne J., Maurel M-C., Schwalbe, H. (2009) H NMR-spectroscopic characterization of the adenine-dependent hairpin ribozyme. ChemBioChem, Vol. 10, Issue 12, 2100-2110.
Li YL, Vergne J, Torchet C, Maurel M-C. (2009) « In vitro selection of adenine-dependent ribozyme against Tpl2/Cot oncogene ». FEBS J. 276(1):303-14
Percot A, Lecomte S, Vergne J, Maurel M-C. (2009) « Hairpin ribozyme catalysis: A surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy study ». Biopolymers. 91(5):384-90.
Maurel, M-C. and Kanellopoulos-Langevin, C. (2008), « Heredity-venturing beyond genetics» Biology of Reproduction, 79, 2-8.
Li, Y., Maurel, M-C., Ebel, C., Pipich, V.,Vergne, J., Zaccai, G. (2008), «Self-association of adenine dependent hairpin ribozymes» European Biophysics Journal, 37, 173-182.
Biondi E, Branciamore S, Maurel MC, Gallori E (2007), "Montmorillonite protection of an UV-irradiated hairpin ribozyme: evolution of the RNA world in a mineral environment". BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16 Aug 2007, 7 Suppl 2:S2 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-S2-S2 PMID: 17767730 PMCID: PMC1963481
Vergne, J., Cognet, J.A.H., Szathmary, E., Maurel, M-C. (2006), « In vitro selection of halo-thermophilic RNA reveals two families of resistant RNA » Gene, 371, 182-193.
Guy Hervé, Sylvia Tobé, Thomas Heams, Jacques Vergne, Marie-Christine Maurel. (2006), "Hydrostatic and osmotic pressure study of the hairpin ribozyme". BBA - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1764(3), pp.573-7.
Maurel, M-C. , Ricard, J. (2006), The evolution of catalytic function. Physics of Life Reviews, Elsevier, 3, pp.56-64.
Tobé, S., Heams, T., Vergne, J., Hervé, G., and Maurel, M-C. (2005), « The catalytic mechanism of hairpin ribozyme studied by hydrostatic pressure » Nucleic Acids Research,33, 8, 2557-2564.
ElAmri, C., Maurel, M.-C, Sagon, G., Baron, M-H. (2005), « The micro-distribution of carbonaceous matter in the Murchison meteorite as investigated by Raman imaging » Spectrochimica Acta, 61, 2049-2056.
Maurel, M-C. & Haenni, A-L. (2005), « The RNA world : Hypothesis, facts and experimental results » "Lectures in Astrobiology". Springer-Verlag, 571-594.
ElAmri, C., Baron, M-H., Maurel, M-C. (2004) « Adenine adsorption onto and release from meteorite specimens assessed by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy ». Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 35, 170-177.
Meli, M., Vergne, J. and Maurel, M-C. (2003), « In vitro selection of adenine-dependent hairpin ribozymes » J. Biol. Chem., 278, 11, 9835-9842.
ElAmri, C., Baron, M-H., Maurel, M-C. (2003), «Adenine in mineral samples : development of a methodology based on Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for picomole detections » Spectrochimica Acta, 59, 2645-2654.
Maurel, M-C, Biard, B., Moulinier, C., Braz, D., Nugier, J., Chaumas, I., Reboud-Ravaux, M., and Décout, J-L. (2002) « RNA-acting antibiotics : in vitro selection of RNA aptamers for the design of new bioactive molecules less susceptible to bacterial resistances » J. Pharm. Pharmacology, 54 : 1019-1031.
Tehei, M., Franzetti, B., Maurel, M-C, Vergne, J., Hountondji, C., Zaccai, G. (2002) « Salt and the Search for Traces of Life » Extremophiles, 6 : 427-430.
Meli, M., Vergne, J., Décout, J.L., and Maurel, M-C. (2002) « Adenine-Aptamer Complexes. A bipartite RNA site which binds the adenine nucleic base » J. Biol. Chem., 277, 3, 2104-2111.
Routaboul, C., Dumas, L., Gautier-Luneau, I., Vergne, J., Maurel, M-C., and Décout, J-L. (2002) «New stetreoselective reaction of methylglyoxal with 2-aminopyridines. Formation of imino acid-nucleic base derivatives in water under mild conditions », ChemCom. 1114-1115.
Nakashima, S., Maruyama, S., Isozaki, Y., Brack, A., Maurel, M-C., and Windley, B. F. (2002) « Introduction to the geochemistry and the origin of life », in Geochemistry and the origin of life, Universal Academy Press, Inc. Series, 1-13.
El Amri, C., Grajcar, L., Fermandjian, S., Ghomi, M., Baron, M.H., and Maurel, M-C. (2002) « Interaction of RNA and DNA hairpins with mineral surface in aqueous phase investigated by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy », in Geochemistry and the origin of life. Universal Academy Press, Inc. Series, 119-132.
Maurel, M-C. (2002) « Functional capabilities of bio-molecules and the beginnings of life. RNA selectivity and adaptability » in Geochemistry and the origin of life. Universal Academy Press, Inc. Series N° 11, 107-118.
Maurel, M-C., and Zaccaï, G. (2001) « Why Biologists should support the exploration of Mars », BioEssays, 23, 977-978.
Meli, M., Albert-Fournier, B., and Maurel, M-C. (2001) « Recent findings in the modern RNA world » International Microbiology, 4, 5-11.
Possible prebiotic catalysts formed from adenine and aldehyde
J Vergne, Lionel Dumas, Jean-Luc Décout, Marie-Christine Maurel (2000) "Possible prebiotic catalysts formed from adenine and aldehyde" Planetary and Space Science 48(11):1139-1142
Maurel, M-C. and Orgel, L.E. (2000) « Oligomerization of thioglutamic acid », Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 30, 423-430.
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