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1 Prebiotic evolution: Selecting for homochirality before RNA
Alan W Schwartz  Current Biology  Volume 7, Issue 8, Pages R477-R479 (August 1997) DOI: /S (06)

2 Figure 1 A comparison of the chemical structures of RNA and pyranosyl-RNA (p-RNA). Current Biology 1997 7, R477-R479DOI: ( /S (06) )

3 Figure 2 Examples of replicative ligation of tetramers of p-RNA. Brackets indicate the length of oligomers. Hydrolysis of 2′,3′-cyclic phosphate (cp) to phosphate (p) is a competing reaction. (a) Auto-oligomerization of the oligomer ATCG. (b) Co-oligomerization of oligomers DTCG and GCCG, where D has 2,6-diaminopurine as its base. Current Biology 1997 7, R477-R479DOI: ( /S (06) )


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