Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life.
basic_science · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 30538241.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-07222-w and PMC identifier 6289997.
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Earth, Planet
- Evolution, Chemical
- Nucleosides
- Origin of Life