Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Photo-editable macromolecular information

  • Niklas Felix König,
  • Abdelaziz Al Ouahabi,
  • Laurence Oswald,
  • Roza Szweda,
  • Laurence Charles,
  • Jean-François Lutz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11566-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Light-induced alteration of macromolecular information plays a central role in biology and is known to influence health and aging. Here the authors show that light can trigger sequence variations in abiotic information-containing polymers that possess photo-sensitive monomers