Boron-assisted abiotic polypeptide synthesis

Yuki Sumie, Keiichiro Sato, Takeshi Kakegawa & Yoshihiro Furukawa

Communications Chemistry 6, Article number: 89 (2023) 

Distributions of CHN compounds in meteorites record organic syntheses in the early solar system

Yoshihiro Furukawa, Daisuke Saigusa, Kuniyuki Kano, Akira Uruno, Ritsumi Saito, Motoo Ito, Megumi Matsumoto, Junken Aoki, Masayuki Yamamoto & Tomoki Nakamura 

Scientific Reports 13, Article number: 6683 (2023) 

Quantitative analysis of calcium oxalate monohydrate and dihydrate for elucidating the formation mechanism of calcium oxalate kidney stones

Mihoko Maruyama , Koichi P. Sawada, Yutaro Tanaka, Atsushi Okada, Koichi Momma, Masanori Nakamura, Ryota Mori, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Yuki Sugiura, Rie Tajiri, Kazumi Taguchi, Shuzo Hamamoto, Ryosuke Ando, Katsuo Tsukamoto, Kazufumi Takano, Masayuki Imanishi, Masashi Yoshimura, Takahiro Yasui, Yusuke Mori

PLOS One 18, e0282743 (2023)

Borate-guided ribose phosphorylation for prebiotic nucleotide synthesis

Yuta Hirakawa, Takeshi Kakegawa & Yoshihiro Furukawa

Scientific Reports 12, Article number: 11828 (2022) 

Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine nucleobases in carbonaceous meteorites

Oba Y.*, Takano Y., Koga T., Furukawa Y., Glavin D.P., Dworkin J.P., Naraoka H.

Nature Communications 13, 2008 (2022)

Multicolor imaging of calcium-binding proteins in human kidney stones for elucidating the effects of proteins on crystal growth

Tanaka Y., Maruyama M., Okada A., Furukawa Y., Momma K., Sugiura Y., Tajiri R., Sawada K. P. , Tanaka S., Takano K., Taguchi K., Hamamoto S., Ando R., Tsukamoto K., Yoshimura M., Mori Y. , Yasui T.

Scientific Reports 11, 16841 (2021)

Analytical protocols for Phobos regolith samples returned by the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission

Wataru Fujiya, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Haruna Sugahara, Mizuho Koike, Ken-ichi Bajo, Nancy L. Chabot, Yayoi N. Miura, Frederic Moynier, Sara S. Russell, Shogo Tachibana, Yoshinori Takano, Tomohiro Usui & Michael E. Zolensky

Earth, Planets and Space 73, 120 (2021) 

Synthesis of 13C-enriched amino acids with 13C-depleted insoluble organic matter in a formose-type reaction in the early solar system

Yoshihiro Furukawa, Yoshinari Iwasa, Yoshito Chikaraishi

Science Advances 7, eabd3575 (2021)

Experimental Investigation of the Formation of Formaldehyde by Hadean and Noachian Impacts

Saeka Masuda, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Takamichi Kobayashi, Toshimori Sekine, and Takeshi Kakegawa

Astrobiology 21, 413-420 (2021)

Decompression experiments for sulfur-bearing hydrous rhyolite magma: Redox evolution during magma decompression

Satoshi Okumura, Hidemi Ishibashi, Shoichi Itoh, Akimasa Suzumura, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Takahiro Miwa, Hiroyuki Kagi

American Mineralogist 106, 216 - 225 (2021)

Aqueous alteration without initial water: possibility of organic-induced hydration of anhydrous silicates in meteorite parent bodies 

Naoki Hirakawa, Yoko Kebukawa, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Masashi Kondo, Hideyuki Nakano, Kensei Kobayashi

Earth, Planets, and Space 73, 16 (2021)  

Airfall on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko 

Björn J.R. Davidsson, Samuel Birch, Geoffrey A. Blake, Dennis Bodewits, Jason P. Dworkin, Daniel P. Glavin, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Jonathan I. Lunine, Julie L. Mitchell, Ann N. Nguyen, Steve Squyres, Aki Takigawa, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Kris Zacny

Icarus 354, 114004 - 114004 (2021)

Extraterrestrial hexamethylenetetramine in meteorites—a precursor of prebiotic chemistry in the inner solar system

Oba M.*, Takano Y., Naraoka H., Furukawa Y., Glavin D.P., Dworkin J.P., Tachibana S.

Nature Communications 11, 6243 (2020)

Impact-induced amino acid formation on Hadean Earth and Noachian Mars

Takeuchi Y., Furukawa Y.*, Kobayashi T., Sekine T., Terada N. & Kakegawa T.

Scientific Reports 10, 9220 (2020)

The importance of Phobos sample return for understanding the Mars-Moon system

Usui T.*, Bajo K., Fujiya W., Furukawa Y., Koike M., Miura Y., Sugahara H., Tachibana S., Takano Y., Kuramoto K.

Space Science Reviews 216, 49 (2020)

Extraterrestrial ribose and other sugars in primitive meteorites

Furukawa Y.*, Chikaraishi Y., Ohkouchi N., Ogawa N.O., Glavin D.P., Dworkin J.P., Abe C., and Nakamura T.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 116, 24440-24445 (2019)

Exposure experiments of amorphous silicates and organics to cometary ice and vapor analogs.

Takigawa A.*, Furukawa Y., Kimura Y., Davidsson B., and Nakamura T.

The Astrophysical Journal  881, 27 (2019)

STXM-XANES analyses of Murchison meteorite samples captured by aerogel after hypervelocity impacts: A potential implication of organic matter degradation for micrometeoroid collection experiments

Yoko Kebukawa*, Kyoko Okudaira, Hikaru Yabuta, Sunao Hasegawa, Makoto Tabata, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Motoo Ito, Aiko Nakato, A. L. David Kilcoyne, Kensei Kobayashi, Shin Ichi Yokobori, Eiichi Imai, Yuko Kawaguchi, Hajime Yano, Akihiko Yamagishi

Geochemical Journal 53, 53-67 (2019)

Temperature-induced oligomerization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at ambient and high pressures

Chanyshev A. D., Litasov K. D., Furukawa Y., Kokh K. A. Shatskiy A. F.

Scientific Reports 7, 7889 (2017)

Effects of glycine, water, ammonia, and ammonium bicarbonate on the oligomerization of methionine

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 47, 145-160 (2017) 

Huang R., Furukawa Y.*, Otake T., Kakegawa T.,

Racemization of Valine by Impact-Induced Heating

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres (2017)

Furukawa Y.*, Takase A., Sekine T., Kakegawa T., Kobayashi T.

Adsorption of RNA on mineral surfaces and mineral precipitates

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 13, 383-404 (2017)

Biondi E., Furukawa Y., Kawai J., Benner S. A.

Borate and the Origin of RNA: A Model for the Precursors to Life

Elements 13, 261-265 (2017)

Furukawa Y.*  and Kakegawa T.

Evaporite borate-containing mineral ensembles make phosphate available and regiospecifically phosphorylate ribonucleosides: borate as a multifaceted problem solver in prebiotic chemistry

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55, 15816-15820 (2016)

Kim H.J., Furukawa Y., Kakegawa T., Bita A., Scorei R., Benner S. A.

Morphological changes of olivine grains reacted with amino acid solutions by impact process

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 44, 203-212 (2016)

Umeda Y., Takase A., Fukunaga N., Sekine T., Kobayashi T., Furukawa Y., Kakegawa T.,

Effects of silicate, phosphate, and calcium on the stability of aldopentoses

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 46, 189-2020 (2016)

Nitta S., Furukawa Y.*, Kakegawa T.

Survivability and reactivity of glycine and alanine in early oceans: effects of meteorite impacts

Journal of Biological Physics 42 177-198 (2016)

Umeda Y., Fukunaga N., Sekine T., Furukawa Y., Kakegawa T., Kobayashi T., Nakazawa H.

初期地球における隕石衝突によるアミノ酸および核酸塩基の生成に関する研究

地球化学 50, 1-9 (2016)

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Nucleobase and amino acid formation through impacts of meteorites on the early ocean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters 429, 216-222 (2015)

Furukawa Y.*, Nakazawa H., Sekine T., Kobayashi T., Kakegawa T.

Shock wave synthesis of amino acids from solutions of ammonium formate and ammonium bicarbonate

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 10 (2015)

Suzuki C., Furukawa Y.*, Kobayashi T., Sekine T., Nakazawa H., Kakegawa T.

Abiotic regioselective phosphorylation of adenosine with borate in formamide

Astrobiology 15, 259-267 (2015)

 Furukawa Y.*, Kim H., Hutter D., Benner S. A.

Oligomerization and carbonization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at high pressure and temperature

Carbon 84, 225-235 (2015)

Chanyshev A. D.*, Litasov K. D., Shatskiy A. F., Furukawa Y., Yoshino T., Ohtani E.

Stability conditions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at high pressures and temperatures

Geochemistry International 52, 767-772 (2014)

Chanyshev A. D.*, Litasov K. D., Shatskiy A. F., Furukawa Y., and Ohtani E.

Exploration of Enceladus’ water-rich plumes toward understanding of chemistry and biology of the interior ocean

Aerospace Technology Japan, The ISTS Special Issue of Transactions of JSASS 12, Tk7-Tk11 (2014)

Sekine Y., Takano Y., Yano H., Funase R., Takai K., Ishihara M., Shibuya T., Tachibana S., Kuramoto K., Yabuta H., Kimura J., Furukawa Y.

Experimental investigation of formation of volatiles by heating of meteorite constituent materials in humid nitrogen.

Icarus 231, 77-82 (2014)

Furukawa Y.*, Samejima T., Nakazawa H., Kakegawa T.

Selective stabilization of ribose by borate

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 43, 353-361 (2013).

 Furukawa Y.*, Horiuchi M., Kakegawa T.

土星衛星エンセラダスのプリューム物質の化学・生命探査.

遊星人 21, 229-238 (2012)

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Abiotic formation of valine peptides under conditions of high temperature and high pressure

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 42, 519-531 (2012)

Furukawa Y.*, Otake T., Ishiguro T., Nakazawa H., Kakegawa T.

Impact-induced phyllosilicate formation from olivine and water

Furukawa Y.*, Sekine T., Kakegawa T., Nakazawa H.

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 6461-6472 (2011)

Stability of amino acids and their oligomerization under high-pressure conditions: Implications for prebiotic chemistry

Astrobiology 11, 799-813 (2011)

Otake T.*, Taniguchi T., Furukawa Y., Kawamura F., Nakazawa H., Kakegawa T.

New silica clathrate minerals that are isostructural with natural gas hydrates

Nature Communications 2, 196 (2011)

Momma K.*, Ikeda T., Nishikubo K., Takahashi N., Honma C., Takada M., Furukawa Y., Nagase T., Kudoh Y.

隕石の海洋衝突で生成するアンモニアと有機物

高圧力の科学と技術 19,195-200 (2009)

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Biomolecule formation by oceanic impacts on early Earth

Nature Geoscience 2, 62-66 (2009)

Furukawa Y.*, Sekine T., Oba M., Nakazawa H., Kakegawa T.

An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis using high-performance liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry

Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 10, Q03012 (2009)

Schouten S. E.*, Hopmans C., van der Meer J., Mets A., Bard E., Bianchi T. S., Diefendorf A., Escala M., Freeman K. H., Furukawa Y., Huguet C., Ingalls A., Ménot-Combes G., Nederbragt A. J., Oba M., Pearson A., Pearson E. J., Rosell-Melé A., Schaeffer P., Shah S. R., Shanahan T. M., Smith R. W., Smittenberg R., Talbot H. M., Uchida M., Van Mooy B. A. S., Yamamoto M., Zhang Z., Sinninghe Damsté J. S.

Formation of ultrafine particles from impact-generated supercritical water

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 258, 543-549 (2007)

Furukawa Y.*, Nakazawa H., Sekine T., Kakegawa T.

初期地球における局所還元環境とアミノ酸生成の可能性

Viva Origino 35,98-100 (2007)

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