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Formamide as the main building block in the origin of nucleic acids

The simplest molecules grouping the four most common elements of the universe H,C,O and N (with the exception of the biologically inert He) are isocyanate HNCO and formamide H(2)NCOH. Reasons for the availability of formamide on prebiotic Earth are presented. We review evidence showing that formamid...

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Autores principales: Costanzo, Giovanna, Saladino, Raffaele, Crestini, Claudia, Ciciriello, Fabiana, Di Mauro, Ernesto
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central|1 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1963486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17767725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-S2-S1