Nonenzymatic polymerase-like template-directed synthesis of acyclic l-threoninol nucleic acid

A world preceding the prebiotic RNA-world may have been based on xeno nucleic acids (XNAs), but their replication likely did not require enzymes. Here, the authors demonstrate template-directed non-enzymatic synthesis of an XNA, acyclic l-threoninol nucleic acid, via chemical ligation mediated by N-...

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Autores principales: Keiji Murayama, Hikari Okita, Takumi Kuriki, Hiroyuki Asanuma
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Sumario:A world preceding the prebiotic RNA-world may have been based on xeno nucleic acids (XNAs), but their replication likely did not require enzymes. Here, the authors demonstrate template-directed non-enzymatic synthesis of an XNA, acyclic l-threoninol nucleic acid, via chemical ligation mediated by N-cyanoimidazole, and achieve a pseudo-primer extension of this XNA with all four nucleobases.