Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life

Sidney Becker; Christina Schneider; Antony Crisp; Thomas Carell

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07222-w

Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life

Sidney Becker,
Christina Schneider,
Antony Crisp,
Thomas Carell

Affiliations

Sidney Becker: Department of Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Christina Schneider: Department of Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Antony Crisp: Department of Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Thomas Carell: Department of Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07222-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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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.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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