Prebiotic chemistry: The amino acid and peptide world

Current Organic Chemistry

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1107-1114

  Plankensteiner, Kristof ^a   Reiner, Hannes ^a   Rode, Bernd M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; CHEMICAL STABILITY; RNA;

AMINO-ACIDS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CHEMICAL EVOLUTION; PEPTIDE PROTEINS; PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN SHELLS; RNA WORLD; STABILITY PROBLEM;

PEPTIDES;

AMINO ACID; BIOPOLYMER; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; RNA;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW;

EID: 22544463363     PISSN: 13852728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1385272054553640     Document Type: Review

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