Astrobiological Implications of the Stability and Reactivity of Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid

Supplementary data for the paper entitled: "Astrobiological Implications of the Stability and Reactivity of Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid."

Authors

Janusz J. Petkowski,^1,2*† Sara Seager,^3,4,5,6† Maxwell D. Seager,^6,7† William Bains,⁸ Nittert Marinus,⁹ Mael Poizat,⁹ Chad Plumet,⁹ Jim van Wiltenburg,⁹ Ton Visser,⁹ Martin Poelert,⁹  

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland

² JJ Scientific, Mazowieckie, Warsaw 02-792, Poland.

³ Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts. Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

⁴ Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts. Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

⁵ Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts. Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

⁶ Nanoplanet Consulting, Concord, MA 01742, USA

⁷ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA

⁸ School of Physics & Astronomy, Cardiff University, 4 The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK

⁹ Symeres Netherlands BV, Kerkenbos 1013, 6546 BB Nijmegen, The Netherlands

The contents of the file: PNA in CSA Supplementary Datasets.zip

Data S1: Folder "Supplementary Dataset 1-LCMS DATA"

The folder Supplementary Dataset 1-LCMS DATA contains pdfs of all LCMS spectra.  The original LCMS data include the LCMS analysis of PNA hexamers A-T at various time points, at room temperature (RT) (1h, 24h, 14 days; t = RT) as well as at high temperature (50°C and 80°C). 

Data S2: Folder "Supplementary Dataset 2-NMR DATA"

The folder Supplementary Dataset 2-NMR DATA contains the original NMR data.