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Life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis
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.
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6289992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30538225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07220-y |
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spelling | pubmed-62899922018-12-13 Life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis Harrison, Stuart A. Lane, Nick Nat Commun Comment 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. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6289992/ /pubmed/30538225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07220-y Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Comment Harrison, Stuart A. Lane, Nick Life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis |
title | Life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis |
title_full | Life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis |
title_fullStr | Life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis |
title_full_unstemmed | Life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis |
title_short | Life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis |
title_sort | life as a guide to prebiotic nucleotide synthesis |
topic | Comment |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6289992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30538225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07220-y |
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