Mapping the landscape of potentially primordial informational oligomers: Oligodipeptides tagged with 2,4-disubstituted 5-aminopyrimidines as recognition elements

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2478-2484

  Mittapalli, Gopi Kumar ^a   Osornio, Yazmin M ^a   Guerrero, Miguel A ^a   Reddy, Kondreddi Ravinder ^a   Krishnamurthy, Ramanarayanan ^a   Eschenmoser, Albert ^a,b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

5 aminopyrimidines; Base pairing; DNA; Nucleic acid hybridization; Oligonucleotides

Indexed keywords

DNA; MAPPING; PEPTIDES; REACTION KINETICS;

5-AMINOPYRIMIDINES; BASE PAIRING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGODIPEPTIDES;

OLIGOMERS;

AMINE; DIPEPTIDE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PEPTOID; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

AMINES; BASE PAIRING; BIOGENESIS; DIPEPTIDES; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTOIDS; PYRIMIDINES;

EID: 34250633363     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200603209     Document Type: Article

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