Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life

Becker, Sidney ; Schneider, Christina ; Crisp, Antony and Carell, Thomas (12. December 2018): Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life. In: Nature Communications, 5174

Abstract

Prebiotic chemistry, driven by changing environmental parameters provides canonical and a multitude of non-canonical nucleosides. This suggests that Watson-Crick base pairs were selected from a diverse pool of nucleosides in a pre-Darwinian chemical evolution process.

• Item Type: Journal article
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 741912
• EU Projects: Horizon 2020 > ERC Grants > ERC Advanced Grant > ERC Grant 741912: EPiR - The Chemical Basis of RNA Epigenetics
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: prebiotic chemistry; early earth; nucleosides
• Faculties: Chemistry and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry
• Research Centers: Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM)
• Subjects: 500 Science > 540 Chemistry
• Language: English

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