Killing two birds with one stone: A chemically plausible scheme for linked nucleic acid replication and coded peptide synthesis

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 481-488

  Sutherland, John D ^a   Blackburn, Jonathan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Biochemistry ^*  (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031193435     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(97)90318-5     Document Type: Article

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