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Overview

John D. Sutherland is affiliated with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Physics and Astronomy. Within these areas, the focus extends into several subfields including Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Materials Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics with notable emphasis on Origins and Evolution of Life, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, and Enzyme Structure and Function.

Recent publications by John D. Sutherland include:

  • The origin of life as a planetary phenomenon (2020), published in Science Advances
  • Structure of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in the presence of favipiravir-RTP (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Selective prebiotic formation of RNA pyrimidine and DNA purine nucleosides (2020), published in Nature
  • Harnessing chemical energy for the activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks (2020), published in Nature Chemistry
  • Illuminating Life's Origins: UV Photochemistry in Abiotic Synthesis of Biomolecules (2021), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with John D. Sutherland are:

  • Ziwei Liu
  • Samuel J. Roberts
  • Meng Su
  • Long-Fei Wu
  • Dimitar Sasselov

Their research is often published in journals such as:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Chemistry
  • Chemical Communications
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions

    Matthew W. Powner;Béatrice Gerland;John D. Sutherland

  • Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism

    Bhavesh H. Patel;Claudia Percivalle;Dougal J. Ritson;Colm D. Duffy

  • The Origin of Life--Out of the Blue.

    John D. Sutherland

  • Prebiotic synthesis of simple sugars by photoredox systems chemistry

    Dougal Ritson;John D. Sutherland

  • Chemoselective Multicomponent One-Pot Assembly of Purine Precursors in Water

    Matthew W. Powner;John D. Sutherland;Jack W. Szostak

  • UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron-sulfur clusters.

    Claudia Bonfio;Luca Valer;Simone Scintilla;Sachin N Shah

  • Structure of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in the presence of favipiravir-RTP.

    Katerina Naydenova;Kyle W. Muir;Long Fei Wu;Ziguo Zhang

  • Selective prebiotic formation of RNA pyrimidine and DNA purine nucleosides

    Jianfeng Xu;Václav Chmela;Nicholas J. Green;David A. Russell

  • A prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine β-ribonucleosides and their phosphate derivatives involving photoanomerization

    Jianfeng Xu;Maria Tsanakopoulou;Christopher J. Magnani;Rafał Szabla

  • Prebiotic chemistry: a new modus operandi

    Matthew W. Powner;John D. Sutherland

  • Synthesis of aldehydic ribonucleotide and amino acid precursors by photoredox chemistry.

    Dougal J. Ritson;John D. Sutherland

  • Photochemical reductive homologation of hydrogen cyanide using sulfite and ferrocyanide.

    Jianfeng Xu;Dougal J. Ritson;Sukrit Ranjan;Zoe R. Todd

  • Prebiotically plausible oligoribonucleotide ligation facilitated by chemoselective acetylation

    Frank R. Bowler;Christopher K. W. Chan;Colm D. Duffy;Béatrice Gerland;Béatrice Gerland

  • A Light-Releasable Potentially Prebiotic Nucleotide Activating Agent.

    Angelica Mariani;David A. Russell;Thomas Javelle;John D. Sutherland

  • Mimicking the surface and prebiotic chemistry of early Earth using flow chemistry

    Dougal J. Ritson;Claudio Battilocchio;Steven V. Ley;John D. Sutherland

  • Direct assembly of nucleoside precursors from two- and three-carbon units.

    Carole Anastasi;Michael A. Crowe;Matthew W. Powner;John D. Sutherland

  • Prebiotic Chemistry: A Bioorganic Perspective

    John D Sutherland;J Nicole Whitfield

  • RNA: prebiotic product, or biotic invention?

    Carole Anastasi;Fabien F. Buchet;Michael A. Crowe;Alastair L. Parkes

  • Antimalarial tetranortriterpenoids from the seeds of Lansium domesticum Corr.

    Nisakorn Saewan;John D. Sutherland;Kan Chantrapromma

  • High Energy Radical Chemistry Formation of HCN-rich Atmospheres on early Earth.

    Martin Ferus;Petr Kubelík;Antonín Knížek;Adam Pastorek

  • Acyl coenzyme A: 6-aminopenicillanic acid acyltransferase from Penicillium chrysogenum and Aspergillus nidulans

    P.A. Whiteman;E.P. Abraham;J.E. Baldwin;M.D. Fleming

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack E. Baldwin
Jack E. Baldwin University of Oxford
Dimitar Sasselov
Dimitar Sasselov Harvard University
Jack W. Szostak
Jack W. Szostak University of Chicago
Robert M. Adlington
Robert M. Adlington University of Oxford
Didier Queloz
Didier Queloz University of Cambridge
Jiří Šponer
Jiří Šponer Masaryk University
Bauke W. Dijkstra
Bauke W. Dijkstra University of Groningen
Christopher J. Schofield
Christopher J. Schofield University of Oxford
Inês A. C. Pereira
Inês A. C. Pereira Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Edward P. Abraham
Edward P. Abraham University of Oxford

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