Wet-dry cycles enable the parallel origin of canonical and non-canonical nucleosides by continuous synthesis
oleh: Sidney Becker, Christina Schneider, Hidenori Okamura, Antony Crisp, Tynchtyk Amatov, Milan Dejmek, Thomas Carell
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2018-01-01 |
Deskripsi
How RNA building blocks have formed on an early Earth by a continuous process is still a mystery awaiting its solution. Here, the authors report that fluctuations of physical parameters like temperature and pH could have been enough to facilitate nucleoside formation from simple starting materials.