ORIGINS OF LIFE RNA made in its own mirror image

被引：7
作者：
Shelke, Sandip A. [1 ]
Piccirilli, Joseph A. [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Chicago, Dept Biochem & Mol Biol, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[2] Univ Chicago, Dept Chem, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
来源：
NATURE | 2014年 / 515卷 / 7527期
关键词：
IN-VITRO; SELECTION; EVOLUTION; POLYMERASE; LIGANDS; DNA;
D O I：
10.1038/nature13935
中图分类号：
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
An RNA enzyme has been generated that can assemble a mirror-image version of itself. The finding helps to answer a long-standing conundrum about how RNA molecules could have proliferated on prebiotic Earth. See Letter p. 440
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页码：347 / 348
页数：2
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