Divergent prebiotic synthesis of pyrimidine and 8-oxo-purine ribonucleotides

While mechanisms have been proposed for the prebiotic nucleotide synthesis, these require separate (and potentially incompatible) routes for pyrimidines and purines. Here the authors show that both of these classes of molecules can be formed by a divergent synthesis from a common prebiotic precursor...

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Main Authors: Shaun Stairs, Arif Nikmal, Dejan-Krešimir Bučar, Shao-Liang Zheng, Jack W. Szostak, Matthew W. Powner
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/85ac6358f879402fbd46a7cfa10cc7d9
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