Life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis
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.
- Publication:
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Nature Communications
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
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- Bibcode:
- 2018NatCo...9.5176H