William Martin

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf — Germany

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(153), Protist diversity and phylogeny(130), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms(120), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology(120), Origins and Evolution of Life(69)

Publications772 total

Prebiotic aqueous reactions catalyzed by native nickel without hydrogen
2026Open Access
Hydrothermal origin of metabolic phosphorylation
2025Open Access
Oxygen reductase origin followed the great oxidation event and terminated the Lomagundi excursion
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics·2025Open Access
P47 From commensal to culprit: the genetic diversity driving <i>Staphylococcus epidermidis</i> infections
JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance·2025Open Access
ATP requirements for growth reveal the bioenergetic impact of mitochondrial symbiosis
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Review for "Evolution of lysine and arginine biosynthesis revealed by substrate specificity of lysine biosynthetic enzymes in &lt;i&gt;Thermus thermophilus&lt;/i&gt;"
2025
Proposed approaches for public health surveillance: A literature review for the Canadian National HIV Surveillance Program
Canada Communicable Disease Report·2025Open Access
“The future of capitalism”: A 50‐year retrospective
Business and Society Review·2025· 1 cited
Bacteria on steroids
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025Open Access
ATP requirements for growth reveal the bioenergetic impact of mitochondrial symbiosis
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Chemiosmotic ATP synthesis by minimal protocells
Cell Reports Physical Science·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Surprising effects of differential loss in genome evolution: the last-one-out
FEMS Microbiology Letters·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
The early evolution of the glycolytic pathway from autotrophic origins to glycogen and back
FEMS Microbiology Reviews·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Evidence for corrin biosynthesis in the last universal common ancestor
FEBS Journal·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Conversion of pyridoxal to pyridoxamine with <scp>NH</scp> <sub>3</sub> and <scp>H</scp> <sub>2</sub> on nickel generates a protometabolic nitrogen shuttle under serpentinizing conditions
FEBS Journal·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Conversion of pyridoxal to pyridoxamine with &lt;scp&gt;NH&lt;/scp&gt;&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; and &lt;scp&gt;H&lt;/scp&gt;&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; on nickel generates a protometabolic nitrogen shuttle under serpentinizing conditions"
2024
GTP before ATP: The energy currency at the origin of genes
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics·2024· 17 citedOpen Access
Serpentinization as the source of energy, electrons, organics, catalysts, nutrients and pH gradients for the origin of LUCA and life
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics·2024
Ferredoxin reduction by hydrogen with iron functions as an evolutionary precursor of flavin-based electron bifurcation
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics·2024· 1 cited
GTP before ATP: The very early evolution of energy currencies preserved in modern metabolism
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics·2024· 1 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Tal Dagan(7), Giddy Landan(6), Michael J. Russell(5), Shijulal Nelson‐Sathi(5), Nick Lane(4), Filipa L. Sousa(4), Mayo Roettger(4), Masami Hasegawa(3), Katrin Henze(3), Sven B. Gould(3), Einat Hazkani‐Covo(3), John F. Allen(3), James O. McInerney(3), Miklós Müller(2), Tamas Rujan(2), Bettina Stoebe(2), William Nelson(2), Francesco Salamini(2), Hakan Özkan(2), Andrea Brandolini(2)