Life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis

Stuart A. Harrison; Nick Lane

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07220-y

Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis

Stuart A. Harrison,
Nick Lane

Affiliations

Stuart A. Harrison: Centre for Life’s Origin and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London
Nick Lane: Centre for Life’s Origin and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07220-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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Abstract Synthesis of activated nucleotides has been accomplished under ‘prebiotically plausible’ conditions, but bears little resemblance to the chemistry of life as we know it. Here we argue that life is an indispensable guide to its own origins.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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